HW: US Tour, Accomodations, etc.

[Carl E. Anderson]

> One other thing, though.  I really doubt that HW will get 1000 people at
> any venue in the U.S., besides perhaps N.Y., Chicago, and San Fran.
> (People, prove me wrong, PLEEZ).  Most of the venues that are available
> and cater to the HW crowd have capacities of about 700.  (Trees is about
> that, and the Galaxy Club is about 400... the two venues for Nik.)

        If HW want to play bigger shows in the US they need more exposure.
All the Griffin releases were good, but they need to get out and gig
a bit and worry more about getting in a good show of respectable length
than worrying about whether the light show will be big enough etc.

        I *still* say Hawkwind should try to arrange to play some of the
big science fiction conventions in the States.  I always encountered
people there who had heard of the band but didn't know much about them.
Simply being billed as "British Sci-fi Rock Band" will probably get them
a crowd at just about any US convention :)  Plus they could have fun
wandering about the place and looking at neat stuff.  And can you
imagine Hawkwind doing a panel on "SciFi and Music"!?  Amazing!

        That would be wicked--a US Hawktour at SF cons and the Roswell fest.
What a trip!

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson                           "So that's Terra.  Oohwee,
cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk                             look out wenchlings, here
http://wjh-www.harvard.edu/~canders/hem.html    come the Hawklords."
cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk                                -Lord Lemmy (Hawkwind)
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