HW:Hawklords

Chris Warburton desdinova at MADASAFISH.COM
Sat Oct 25 20:00:29 EDT 2008


I think we'll open at Icehenge, and then follow in the pathe of "The  
Holywelkin Orchestra"

(cf. Kim Stanley Robinson)

Heh!

Carl - do we take turns on Bass?  Or double up for some Big Bottom?!!!?
Cheers
ChrisW

On 26 Oct 2008, at 00:43, Mary Sullivan wrote:

> sounds like a good plan, don't forget you have to hijack some  
> radiostations
> too.  I'd be happy to help with that.  In the end, we fans will  
> build a
> spaceship to look like a sound stage, give you all you need for your  
> tour
> out there, and bring you back, if you haven't turned into starsand  
> decided
> to stay out there.  You'd want to play where there are other  
> intelligent
> life forms, but that might make it hard to get gigs on this planet.   
> Perhaps
> you could play on the bill with Disaster Area?
>
> Rock on,
>
> Kaduflyer
>
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>
> Carl Edlund Anderson writes:
>
>> Let's just create a Hawklords album by ourselves, as it should be,
>> and without any of the principles. Plenty of futuristic paranoia and
>> eloquent rage against the machine. We'll write 16 tracks, throw away
>> the worse half, but take the best bits of them to write 4 more
>> tracks, and then keep the best 8 or 9 of all of it (since 1 or 2
>> tracks will, of course, fly off into spacey jams in the middle and
>> probably elsewhere).  Then we'll add a cover of Swindell's "Shot Down
>> in the Night" (simply because I think it would be cool).  We'll title
>> the whole thing FALCO DOMINATUS, release it in high quality audio
>> files for free, and encourage people to burn copies to CD so as to
>> sneak them into the bins at record shops for the bafflement of the
>> the world at large.  In our ensuing rocket ride to fame and nefarious
>> notoriety, we will tour and perform a different song every night with
>> Samantha Fox on guest vocals.
>>
>> :)
>
> Hey. I'm in. I can't play owt, but on a good day I can hack out
> something approaching lyrics and an SF backstory for the album cover.
>
> Don't we have bunches of hawkfans stashed somewhere who can do the
> musical bit? After all, it's the logical next step from The Hawkwind
> Covers Project.
>
>> PS - we shall title one of our new songs "Bring Me the Head of Yuri
>> Gargarin", simply because it's a great title that should finally have
>> something listen-able associated with it. ;)
>
> Good Plan!
>
> FoFP
>
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