HW: Church of Hawkwind

[Ola Nyberg]

Max Wilcox wrote:

<This has been in the corner of my mind for the past few weeks,
<and I thought, seeing as I've got lots of uni writing to do, that I
would
<purge it from the dark recesses of my mind now.
 <What's the deal with Church of Hawkwind? I know it was
<origionaly `ol Brockey's solo album, but then he got the others in on
it.
<Why? How did this come about?
<It gets strange here. The copyright is 75, and Bainbridge &
<HughLL are listed as composing some of the songs - how? More astounding
is
<how Chadwick and Dayey are on it.
<My only thoughts are that Brock recorded the demos in 75 and
<then the others got them out of the vaults and added backing etc....
<Or is this just a strange time warp thingie?
<- Max Wilcox

Well, as far as I can remember, Martin Griffin (their drummer at the
time, 1981-1983), got seriously ill when HW were supposed to go into the
studio (Rockfield, I suppose) to record a new album in the summer of
1981. While waiting for poor Martin to recover, Dave and Harvey started
fooling around in the studio with keyboards and synths more than they had
ever done before. This eventually resulted in the *Church of Hawkwind*
album. HW recorded the *Sonic Attack* album upon Martin's recovery, but
the Church wasn't released 'til after Sonic Attack. Mind you, the *Virgin
of the World" track on Sonic Attack is from the Church sessions.

Did I remember everything correctly here? Hope so...

Cheers,

Ola Nyberg
Stockholm
Sweden