HW: hawks new cd

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:41:59AM -0500, Mark Darkstar typed out:
> any ideas what the 'previously unseen video footage' on the new hawkwind cd
> will be?

        Having now been allowed by various subsequent posts to track
this information to the Voiceprint site, I'm suffering my usual
scepticism. If I'm keeping track all right, this would be perhaps the
fourth time Voiceprint have announced a Hawkwind release that then
turned to smoke and mirrors, even if one of those was the initial
announcement of _Take Me To Your Leader_ which the band then denied they
had yet decided on a label for (the others being the reissues of
_Warrior_, ASAM, _Quark_ and 25YO that they had to withdraw before they
even existed). (Has anyone worked out what the deal with those Rock
Fever releases is yet?)

        However, there is this notice on Mission Control that there will
soon be an important announcement. Why do they do that? But anyway.
Leaving aside usual gripes about finding information in the maze of
out-of-date pages hidden in the depths of the site, that doesn't seem to
have happened yet, but neither has the Voiceprint announcement been
denied. So it is tempting to support the two half-facts with each other.

        So what might it be? Dave said in at least one interview I dimly
remember that the sessions for TMtYL had generated enough material for
two albums, and we certainly saw a good few titles fly around, even if
some of them were different names for single songs. So I suspect, unless
the band has been feverishly composing during this brief downtime,
which, you know, would be great, or even just jamming and keeping the
best bits which would also probably be great, that we're looking at
an out-takes album from the TMtYL sessions.

        I guess we'll find out more when we see if there's any new
material at the Exeter gig.

        All the same I might permit myself a flicker of anticipation
here. TMtYL must be almost the only HW album of which you can say that
there are no bad tracks at all, or at least I think I can, and the band
are all playing at close to full strength, Richard more so than the
others I think as he seems to still have new strength to find. If it
lacked the canonical blanga, that's as much that this version of
Hawkwind is doing something else for a bit, and it'll be interesting,
if this stuff really is new and does emerge anything like as soon as
Voiceprint suggest, to see what that is going to be next. Yours,
                                                                 Jon

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        Jonathan Jarrett                Birkbeck College, London
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