HW: Hawkwind news/SD'99

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Keith Henderson wrote:

> Anyway, the show last night was excellent!!!  45 min. of Anubian Lights, 45
> min. of Pressurehed, and 90 min. of Hawkwind tunes (as Dan said).  I didn't
> expect to go to this show as I knew I would be burned out already, but I
> *had* to, because I have absolutely no recollection of Saturday night's show
> whatsoever (despite being 'awake' and vertical the entire time).  Somebody
> said something about dancing alien girls on stage...I have no clue what he
> was talking about.  I vaguely remember Scott Kuti coming out as the Spaceman
> again, but I probably remember that more from a similar appearance last year
> with Pressurehed.  That'll teach me to mix rum and space rock!!  (I *do*
> remember yelling out 'D-Rider' during Nik's solo jam, and being surprised
> that he said, 'We've already done that one'.  I thought, What?  Really?

        No chance of set-lists for the above then I imagine... didn't they
play any Farflung stuff? I did wonder how much chance they'd get to do
their excellent new material with Nik playing Hawkwind, though it sounds
as if he was on fine form... Yours,
                                    Jon