HW: The tour I survived ===

[Cutting, Richard]

Hi everyone,

I enjoyed the Croydon gig, although I feel that the Fairfield Halls as a
venue has absolutely zero atmosphere and although it's great for me location
wise as I only live 15 minutes away would prefer if they had played Brixton
or somewhere like that.

One of the announcements made at the Croydon gig ( and was probably made at
the others ? ) was that there is going to be a Brixton gig in March with
'everyone'. When will this be made official ????

What was Ron's 'heroin announcement' all about ? I haven't seen anything
negative in the press, but then again I don't tend to monitor it too
closely.

All for now.

Richard.

> ----------
> From:         Jill[SMTP:jill at THETA-ORIONIS.FREESERVE.CO.UK]
> Reply To:     BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List
> Sent:         17 November 1999 00:02
> To:   Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
> Subject:      Re: HW: The tour I survived
>
> Hi Nick
>
> Nick Lee wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > still reeling after a slightly woolly day back at work (thankfully only
> a
> > course rather than real work this week!).  It seemed prudent to take
> most of
> > last week off, and polite since I had quite a house-full staying over
> for
> > the Stables gig on Wednesday.
>
> I know the feeling!   Struggled through today especially since my train
> home on Monday was delayed and with it any hopes of catching up on lost
> sleep 8-(
>
> > The (main) setlist (which has been listed already by a couple of folk)
> was
> > pretty much the same each night I attended (all except Cornwall, there's
> > dedication and there's dedication...) except that Aniseed was dropped at
> > Croydon and High Rise was replaced with Green Finned Demon at the same.
>
> The Croyon set was essentially the same as St Austell although Simon
> House wasn't at Cornwall.  The Croydon show had some intermittently
> wonderful moments and people all around me thought it was a brilliant
> gig but there were times when I felt the on stage dancing was getting
> too much.   Personally I preferred St. Austell although the vocals sound
> was dreadful and the crowd was smaller but the set was much more
> coherent and Nik's flute (which he seemed to play more than his sax) was
> just exquisite.    A perfect counterpoint to the music especially during
> the long jam after Golden Void and during Green Finned Demon.    Have to
> say this latter track started dreadfully slowly - especially after the
> preceding Hippy and threatened to break the mood but Dave has a good
> voice which came over really well despite the poor sound quality and
> with Dave on guitar and Nik on flute (at least I'm sure it was this
> track where that combination happened!) they brought an elegance and
> melody that really made it come to life.    That was followed by a
> really tight Blue Skin and an excellent Brainstorm.    The crowd at
> Cornwall was disappointingly small - though considering the remoteness
> of the venue (right down on the beach in an otherwise deserted bay
> surrounded on all sides by steep high sided cliffs, picturesque but
> remote) and with apparently no advertising at all it's amazing how many
> people did turn up!!
>
> It was a nightmare journey down but thankfully Hawkwind put on a
> fantastic show which really made the journey worthwhile and I now have a
> genuine claim to fame - I stayed in the same hotel as Dave Brock!
> Sitting by the hotel entrance reading a newspaper waiting for a taxi
> back to St Austell and suddenly Dave Brock strides (and I do mean
> strides!) through the front door heading off for a walk along the
> cliffs.    Wonderful moment!
>
> Wierd hotel though - the room had a TV that talked to you.  I arrived in
> my room, started to unpack and was suddenly aware of strange blue glow
> behind me that hadn't been there when I first walked in.  I turned round
> very carefully and found my TV had turned itself on and with a lurid
> blue notice was bidding me welcome and hoping that I had a pleasant
> stay.    I dunno - I never felt quite safe with it after that!
>
> However - definitely worth doing and I'm glad I did.
>
> jill
>
> --
> ======================================================================
> Jill Strobridge <jill at theta-orionis.freeserve.co.uk> or
> J.D.Strobridge at ed.ac.uk
> ======================================================================
>

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