Hawkwind and Man - Apr/May 2010

The gameplan was to stay sober at the Cardiff show, an all-seater affair, and get video clips... and then get nicely slaughtered at the Leamington Spa event a couple of days later.

That all worked ok, except that I put the wrong SD data card in my camera for the Cardiff show, and only had 256 MB of memory to play with, instead of 2 GB. So the longer clips, shot at Leamington Spa, show a distinct deteoriation in steadiness as the afternoon wore on and evening approached.

Cardiff St Davids Hall, 30 Apr 2010

Excellent sound quality, almost hifi. Great to be able to listen to a thread in the sound and look to see who was doing it. I often focussed on Dave Brock, of course.

The number of tracks in the setlist was pruned a fair bit, allowing more time to expand upon each one. A bit like the old "blanga" days, really.

Setlist:

Space is Deep, Angels, Fahrenheit 451, Sentinel, Lighthouse, Green Machine, Wraith, Prometheus, Warrior narrative, Magnu, Tide of the Century, You'd Better Believe It.

Encore: Hassan, Silver Machine

For me, it was the best Hawkwind show since (excluding) the 1989 Treworgey show. So, best show for 21 years is another way of putting it!

A clip from "Angels of Death"

Swansea and Leeds, 1 May

There's no word yet on how the ManBand show went, at Swansea. Hawkwind were playing Leeds that night, and it sounds like folks enjoyed it.

Leamington Spa, 2 May

Hawkwind's "psychedelic sundae" and the lineup included:

Krankshaft (Calvert collaberators) - sample "Lord of the Hornets"
Banco de Gaia - sample "Spirit of the Age"
Man - "Spunk Rock"
Huw Lloyd-Langton (ex-Hawkwind guitarist) - "Waiting for Tomorrow"
Hawkwind - "Prometheus"

Interesting to see Martin Ace's incarnation of Man. Some purists/Micky Jones fans don't regard this outfit as the real deal, but the Hawkwind crowd liked it.

Hawkwind's set was pretty much the same as Cardiff 2 days earlier... being able to move around and drink while watching them was a lot more fun, of course!

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My previous Hawkwind reviews on this site...

2006 Apr - Exeter
2007 Dec - Exeter
2007 Dec - London, Astoria
2008 Dec - Exeter
2009 Aug - London, Porchester Hall
2009 Dec - Falmouth etc



Edited by sonic_assassin - May 14 2010 at 07:04

Hi,

Rabid wrote: moshkito wrote: Hi,   You b*****ds get all the good stuff ... around here we only get cheap jazz crap revivals and the worst of all the rock bands you can imagine, not to mention wannabe everythings that have more ego and pants than they do music!   We like to eat bananas.