#hawkwind uk

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A DOWNED ALIEN SPACECRAFT IN A LAKE OF MIST: SCI-FI ART IN THE SUPER-SEVENTIES.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a HAWKWIND poster design for the band's fourth studio album, "Hall of the Mountain Grill," released by United Artists in. September 1974. Artwork by Barney Bubbles.

"Before his celebrated designs for Stiff, Radar et al, Barney Bubbles created a spectacular body of work for Hawkwind. The band's manager Doug Smith has called Bubbles 'the most important artist of our generation' for the visual identity he created for artists, whereas Peter Saville has simply said "Barney Bubbles should be canonised.""

-- ROCK-EXPLOSION (Classic original rock and pop posters)

Source: www.rock-explosion.com/catpage6.html.

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A FOREFATHER OF SEVENTIES UK PUNK DRUMMING -- PLAYING FAST IN '72-'73.

^NOTE: Listen to the speed and/or tempos of the drumming on "Brainstorm" (1972) and don't tell me that all the UK punks weren't emulating a similar sound in 1976-'77. King was already playing fast in '72!

PIC INFO: Mega spotlight on in-the-studio shots of heavy metal-space punk drumming powerhouse Simon King (age 22-23 here), captured in a HAWKWIND rehearsal with the companion bass drumhead in the foreground, c. 1973. 📸: Barrie Wentzell.

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/796503884078901358 (Pinterest 2x).

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READY TO PERFORM THE SPACE RITUAL ON YOUR MIND AND BODY -- SHE'LL TAKE YOU ON A RIDE.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 2567x3579 -- Mega spotlight on the interstellar Stacia (Stacia Blake), in full costume, the famed dancer with the space-faring English space rock band HAWKWIND, posing in Amsterdam, Netherlands, c. 1972, during the band's "Doremi Fasol Latido" era, photographed by Gijsbert Hanekroot.

PIC #2: The original photo, from the studio of Gijsbert Hanekroot in the Netherlands.

LOUDER SOUND: "What it was like to be in the centre of that intense multi-media live show with Hawkwind on the "Space Ritual" tour?"

STACIA BLAKE: "It’s so difficult to put something like that into words, because you’re so in the moment. It was awesome, obviously. We were really lucky to have [fellow dancers] Miss Renee and Tony Carrera with us on "Space Ritual" too. They were two great talents. We were all as important as each other, in my mind. We were all cogs in the machine."

LOUDER: "Did you ever have any stage direction beforehand?"

STACIA: "What I did was totally up to me. A lot of it was interpretive dance, which was just going with the music. There were no set sequences. I had my robot routine, which always cropped up. It was basically a robot who’s given a pill and comes to life, then at the end of the sequence the pill starts to wear off and he begins to turn back into a robot and becomes frantic, because he doesn’t want to return."

Sources: https://gb.readly.com/magazines/mojo/2023-08-15/64d42cc059925ceba35a14d5, Louder Sound, various, etc...

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THE UK UNDERGROUND IN FULL SWING JUST BEFORE THE RISE OF PUNK THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on a psychedelic poster design for UK space rock/proto-punk band's HAWKWIND and PINK FAIRIES (headlining acts), with special guests AL "MR. SOUL" MATTHEWS, LADY JUNES, and LINGUISTIC LEPROSY, performing live at the Roundhouse [Chalk Farm], London, UK, on February 16, 1975. Artwork by Barney Bubbles.

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/454863631096922656 (a Pinterest 2x).

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COSMIC COUNTDOWN TO THE STAR-FARING SPACE RITUAL ACROSS THE SUPER-SEVENTIES.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a concert tour poster design for English space rock/progressive rock/proto-punk band, HAWKWIND, promoting the band's then upcoming "Space Ritual" Tour, starting on November 8, 1972 and ending on December 30, 1972.

"It’s November 1972, and something extraordinary is happening in the sleepy Norfolk market town of King’s Lynn. The Corn Exchange venue is packed to the rafters with East Anglian heads and freaks, along with the local chapter of Hells Angels and a smattering of terrified teenyboppers.

It’s the first night of HAWKWIND’s "Space Ritual" tour, an event that’s been trailed by the band for more than a year now. It’s the culmination of three years of intense gigging around Britain and Europe, a multimedia sci-fi spectacular featuring dancers, space-age poetry, the most ambitious lights and visuals show on the circuit, and more than two hours of continuous, mind-expanding music."

-- LOUDER SOUND/PROG, “People came up to us after gigs and said our music terrified them" -- "The saga of Hawkwind's "Space Ritual," by Joe Banks, published 12 May 2023

Source: www.loudersound.com/features/the-saga-of-hawkwinds-space-ritual.

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"...THE ELECTRONICS CASCADE AND BROCK'S ELECTRIC GUITAR BUILDS TO A CLIMAX WITH LEMMY'S BASS."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on the late, great Lemmy Kilmister, during his bass playing days in the English space rock band HAWKWIND, as well as the first HAWKWIND album that ol' Lem ever played on, "Doremi Fasol Latido."

MINI-OVERVIEW: ""Doremi Fasol Latido," HAWKWIND's third album, was released in November 1972. The first to feature Lemmy, it peaked in the UK charts at number 14. It expands on the themes introduced on their previous album, X In Search Of Space, by conceptual artist Barney Bubbles, lyricist Calvert, and science fiction author Michael Moorcock, ultimately culminating in The Space Ritual. The title, Doremi Fasol Latido, refers to the assignment of syllables to steps of the diatonic scale, and alludes to the music of the spheres – a theory that was introduced to the band by Turner and Calvert, based on the work of William Wilde Zeitler.

PART III: The lyrics for "Space Is Deep," the second tune on this album, were taken from Moorcock's poem "The Black Corridor." It begins with Lemmy and Brock playing acoustic guitar, Brock playing 12-string, and swirling layers of synths and electronics. Following the lyrics, "Beyond the realms of ancient light/Is this the reason, deep in our minds," the electronics cascade and Brock's electric guitar builds to a climax with Lemmy's bass. Turner soloing on flute against the synths, the rhythm kicks in and drives hard, Turner switching to alto saxophone with wah wah effects. The music then fades to acoustic guitar and swirling electronics, into the psychedelic depths of space, and the tune draws to a close. A classic of British psychedelia, Doremi Fasol Latido is a stunning album, and one of the cornerstones of space rock."

-- FURIOUS/PERFECT SOUND, "Lemmy, The Early Years," by Jack Gold-Molina, published February, 2016

Source: www.pixnoy.com/profile/officialmotorhead & www.furious.com/perfect/lemmyearlyyears.html.

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WHEN YOUR LEGO FIGURINES DISCOVER SPACE ROCK -- IT'S BLAST-OFF TIME.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on lank of hair and very freaky-looking LEGO® figurines juxtaposed against the backdrop of UK space rock band HAWKWIND's seminal 1973 live double album, "Space Ritual."

"Time we left this world today," indeed.

Source: www.jatstorey.com/2013/03/16/flying-is-trying-is-dying.