Saturday 21 July 2012

Hawkwind fans branded ‘wrong kind of people’

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Hawkwind: Undesirable?

Hawkwind have been forced to cancel an all-day event in a Leicestershire venue after organisers claimed the band’s fans are an undesirable audience, the band say.

The space-rock veterans were set to perform at the Conkers attraction in the National Forest, a scheme designed to create a new 200-square-mile area of woodland in central England.

They say bosses won’t agree to run the September event, but they haven’t been offered a full explanation.

And they’re astonished because the show was only booked after promoters approached the band, having enjoyed a previous festival set.

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  1. Anonymous22 July 2012 at 16:36

    They must have read my Stamford report! Yikes!

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