HW: What's going on???

[Keith Henderson]

Jill had said...

>Welcome!  Maybe this will get the conversation back to Hawkwind again  8-)
>if so - my thanks!

Yeah, really!!!

Various listmembers have been arriving home to post their observations and
experiences at the amazing Strange Daze '98 festival (attendance over 1,000
I hear), and now we're hearing some reports from the Jonkoping festival.
And all this on the 10th anniversary of Bob Calvert's passing.  And Hawkwind
performs *without* Dave Brock for like the second time in history!

And noone gives a rat's ass?!?! You're all talking about frickin' comics??
What the hell is going on??

How bit this?  Tell me you don't find *this* interesting!

Keith H. (FAA)

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>From Aural Innovations, Issue #3 (July, 1998) Interview with Nik Turner (by
Scott Heller and Christian Mumford)

NT:  There's an album that's just come out, recorded in Chicago in 1974 of
Hawkwind material, (the 1999 Party).

SH:  It is very good in the sense that it represents the band well from that
time period.

NT:  Well, there's talk of reforming that band...to actually promote that
record.

SH:  Hmmmm....

NT:  So that's another thing we might do.

CM:  You are not talking the entire band though?

NT:  Well, that's the idea, yeah.

CM:  Wow.

NT:  That band, you know.  I mean the thing is about it is that Lemmy will
be given the option, just as Dave Brock would, whether they take it up is up
to them.

more discussion continues.....

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>From U.S. Rocker (August, 1998 Issue) Interview with Dave Brock (by Sean Carney)

SC:  Hawkwind has always used cutting edge electronics.  What kind of
equipment have you been using lately?

DB:  .....We still use the old EMS audio generators, too.  Ron's had this
incredible machine built which is eight audio generators hooked together
that makes incredible noises which are in the story 'The Death Generator.'
We're doing a big show next year with Michael Moorcock, the science fiction
writer, who is coming back with us to do a few shows, and Lemmy from
Motorhead as well as Simon House, Harvey Bainbridge, and Nik Turner.

SC:  What is the Death Generator?

DB:  It's a novel Michael did with Mike Butterworth back in the  70s -- they
wrote a couple of books called 'Time of the Hawklords' and 'Queen of
Deleria' which are fantasy, sci-fi stories.  There was a comic based on them
that came out in the late 80s.  I was very impressed by it so I thought, why
not do a show about it?  It's a bit of a parody of the band -- with us going
off into space to fight the Death Generator.  HaHaHa!  It should be good fun
because we've got a great lightshow presentation to go with it.

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>From the Strider News, Issue 6 (August, 1998) Interview with Dave Brock (by
Adam Strider)

AS:  What's coming up over the next six months?  I know I saw a lot of stuff
on the Hawkwind web site.

DB:  We're doing this SpaceRock album, you know, with Jim Lascko.  (He is
referring to the Strange Daze '97 album)  I think it might be released on
Griffin Records, which I believe has been gotten back together by Rob
Godwin.  And we've put out another album in the meantime -- we've been quite
busy, actually.  This new studio album will probably be released in America
when we do this tour in October, maybe also on Griffin.  We've also been
asked to record 'Interstellar Overdrive,' the old Pink Floyd song, to be
released with a Pink Floyd book.  So we've got to get that together!

We're also doing the 'Ledge of Darkness' show for next year.  That's going
to be a stage show and probably a cartoon and all sorts of things.  We've
got quite a few people involved in that at the moment.  It's from the 'Time
of the Hawklords' book.

AS:  From the third part?

DB:  Well, the 'Death Generator', right, but we've got to rewrite it to make
it a bit more interesting and exciting.

AS:  Will Michael Moorcock be involved in that?

DB:  I should hope so, yeah, probably doing some spoken pieces.  We'll
probably be getting an album out of all of this.

AS:  Wow, that would be really exciting.

DB:  And there is even the possibility of getting a video game out!  There's
really no limitation on this because Griffin released their 25-year box set
and they had the actual 'Ledge of Darkness' comic in with the package.
Basically, a friend of ours who does all the dance and raves stuff and also
works for MTV doing all of thier graphics and cartoons and computer
technology seems to be quite keen on actually getting a cartoon together on
this.  So there's actually a chance of
getting this released for next year.

<later>

AS:  Is there any chance that you would bring back former members of
Hawkwind to do stuff with?

DB:  Yeah.  I've spoken to Lemmy about this, and he's quite interested in
getting it together.  And Simon House I've spoken to, and Harvey Bainbridge,
Tim Blake, Huw Lloyd-Langton, and Nik Turner.  All of these characters would
love to be involved as well.  We could make it an active sort of story line
with different actors coming along to play in the band.