HW: Alan Davey interview

Wed Apr 15 13:45:52 EDT 2009

I was into some "indie" type stuff like Ned's Atomic Dustbin with all the gaudy computer artwork and such and thought even down to the computer-graphix cover art it was geared at some "rave" type youth fandom. The whole synth sound on that album is real "modern" and as you say the opener kicks ass. I think I had XISOS, which I thought was much more "old hippy gloom" though it didn't bother me as I tasted the likes of Tull and Marillion before the whole "indie" thing ca. 1990. I thought Hawkwind were totally where it was "at". I even thought the figure on the front was Robert Calvert and I didn't know he was dead 2 years earlier! I started reading the booklets to find who was doing what and no Bob....

Christian

> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:01:47 -0500
> From: cea at CARLAZ.COM
> Subject: Re: HW: Alan Davey interview
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> 
> On 15 Apr 2009, at 06:30, Christian Mumford wrote:
> > As a whole PS is more of a treat to new fans like I had been for a  
> > couple of years then.
> 
> 
> Palace Springs was one of first two HW CDs I ever owned (the shop had  
> 2; I bought both; the other was the One Way _In Search of Space_ CD)  
> back when I knew virtually nothing about the band.  Yeah, I _ought_  
> to have liked ISoS better, but actually it was Palace Springs that  
> blew me away, especially the sprawling Assault & Battery > Golden  
> Void (however it was titled on that release).  That still blows me  
> away.  There's a great blend of modern sound and vintage  
> blangafication on that album.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carl
> 
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/

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