HW @ Cambridge (was Re: Northampton gig)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 27/10/2006 10:01, Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
> 	Some comparison to Motorhead here to be fair (this is occurring 
> to both Carl and myself a lot as our tickets for their gigs here came 
> out on the same string of card when we bought them...). The last 
> Motorhead shows I've seen have had three or four songs from the current 
> new album, and then nothing later than 1986 except for `R.A.M.O.N.E.S.' 
> and `Going to Brazil'. Anything from the last fifteen years apart from 
> actually new stuff seems to be right out. And yet there's been some 
> excellent songs there. So also with Hawkwind; `Sputnik Stan' lasted 
> longer than several, and `LSD' has turned up now and again, but 
> basically at the moment they're playing a Motorhead-style set (right 
> down to the closer :-) ).

;)  Well, it's true.  I'd like to see either band spread the set-list 
out a bit more, temporally.  Motorhead certainly has some great stuff 
from the last 15 years, enough that they could easily pick a few 
kick-ass songs from (just about) every album in the catalogue for 
inclusion in the set.  Hawkwind's back catalogue .... is a kind of 
sprawling autoincestous affair where it's sometimes hard to tell what's 
an album and what's not -- but even so, it's clear they could take a few 
more tracks from the 80s and 90s than they currently do.  HW are welcome 
to play "Sputnik" and "LSD" any time, as far as I'm concerned :)  We 
could have "War I Survived" perhaps, and it'd be interesting to try to 
work in something from the CotBS material .... what about "Dreaming City"?

Of course, I'd trade it all in for a pulsing, brain-pummeling dish of 
brand-new return-to-form crazed space-blanga ... but then that's always 
been true ;)

Cheers,
Carl

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