Astoria last night

[Steve Bishop]

Thought the bass could've been raised in the mix a bit, it seemed to get
reduced after about half the gig ...........

Was downstairs throughout, dead centre and about midway between stage and
mixing desk - sound was good though did wonder if Tim switched off
accidentally at one point ? Talkin of Tim, what's the name of that 'gizmo' he
'plays' with his hands please ?

Support act ? Each to their own but I thought they were errrrm 'not good' -
they really didn't seem suited to the Hawkwind fan-base and agree that the
support band invariably isn't. Wouldn't like to speculate on why that is
..............




                                                                              
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I agree - the sound was full and I've always had time for Mr Dibs. Just
thought his vocals could have been a bit forward in the mix as sometimes I
seemed to lose his vocals.

I was upstairs at the start and the sound up there seemed very distorted -
moved downstairs and the sound was fine.

Don't know if the distortion effect was why I did not like the support act -
don't think so somehow. This raised a discussion point last night - why are
Hawkwind support bands invariably poor?

Apart from all nighters / festivals the following were the good ones we came
up with.

Krel
Spacehead
Man
Beautiful People

The rest we had a job recalling - anyone else have a favourite support band?

Steve


On 12/20/07, Steve Bishop <steve.bishop at db.com> wrote:
>
> Really enjoyed it - have to say I was one of the biggest sceptics re Mr
> Dibs
> but thought he did excellently last night, his sound is not quite as full
> and
> fat as Alan's but do prefer his vocals - and not sorry to see the back of
> Greenback Massacre either ! Paradox was brilliant, as was Master, Time we
> Left, Utopia and Damnation Alley. Would have liked to have heard Lord of
> Light
> or Down Through the Night or Born to Go but can't have evrything. Band
> looked
> pretty happy, irrespective of the germs they said they were harbouring !
> Tim
> was very welcome addition and the sound seemed very full and, dare I say
> it,
> not quite as clinically reliant on the computer programmes as previously ?
> Dunno, got the feeling they could have just gone off jamming at a tangent
> if
> they'd fancied it .........
>
> Happy to have my thoughts Shot Down in the Night (hey, that's one I
> haven't
> heard them do for a while !!) but it's only mho ............
>
> Steve
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