Saturday 6 April 2013

Rock legends Hawkwind prepare for Lancashire show


HawkwindHawkwind
DAVE Brock has a thousand and one inter-galactic tales to tell about his anarchic career as captain of one of the world’s longest-running bands, Hawkwind.
From astounding stage spectacles — including the lavish Space Ritual shows — legal battles, bust-ups and reunions, rock’s master of the universe has even recorded a couple of tracks with original Star Trek captain William Shatner.
“It’s all still there after 44 years — space, politics, love and some peace,” says Brock, the only original Hawkwind member in the line-up.
“The Star Trek thing was nuts. William Shatner did a spoken word album of space-themed songs and included our big hit Silver Machine.
“Shatner’s a Hawkwind fan and now we’ve done Sonic Attack with him, which is totally different.
Read on...

No comments:

Post a Comment

...BECAUSE SOME OF US THINK THAT THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT
What happens when you mix what is - arguably - the world's most interesting record company, with an anarchist manic-depressive rock music historian polymath, and a method of dissemination which means that a daily rock-music magazine can be almost instantaneous?

Most of this blog is related in some way to the music, books and films produced by Gonzo Multimedia, but the editor has a grasshopper mind and so also writes about all sorts of cultural issues which interest him, and which he hopes will interest you as well.