Hawkwind Oslo cancelled

[Steve Swann]

"Paid for the flights" that's a pain I can understand... Having had to cancel my flight last week for Space Ritual 2009, the change fee is going to run me a couple hundred dollars to start with.  Add to that the fact that flights in June or whenever they re-scheduled for are currently running $800 a pop or thereabouts....   Bleah!

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: gingoblin at EASYNET.CO.UK
Date: Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009 11:52 am
Subject: Re: Hawkwind Oslo cancelled
To: Reply-    BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET

I was just wondering yesterday why Oslo wasn't on the website... now I 
know! Pity I've paid for the damn flights. And just today sent some Hawk 
discs over to Oslo friends who were gonna be seeing 'em for the first time, 
and in fact had never even heard them before... fuck, this is annoying. Now 
I better hope my Hamburg friend who I was telling MUST see Hawkwind at 
least once in their lifetime hasn't booked flights also, or I'll be in trouble! Ah well, it'll have to be just Edinburgh then. At least it's not six quid a 
pint here. Yet...


At 15:06 11/03/2009 +0100, you wrote:
Well, it seems that Hawkwind's ever changing demands killed their concert 
in Oslo. My band, the Oresund Space Collective were suppose to play at 
this show but expenses were running wild and Hawkwind was being very 
unreasonable to the promoter (and doing very stealthy and unreasonable 
things like changing the agreed fee from Euros to pounds, etc..) and he 
had to can the show. What started out as a really great thing ended in a 
bummer for everyone involved and mainly due to the band themselves being 
excessively greedy, needy. Pity. I was really looking forward to this and 
so was the promoter and all my Norwegian friends....

>Any word on the follow up to X in Search of Space? Do you think the band 
will debut any of these songs in the April UK tour with Girlschool?

>all the best

>scott

>www.oresundspacecollective.com  (Our 5th totally improvised space rock CD 
out now!)