HW: The Time Of The Hawklords

[Mark Edmonds]

Interesting how people's mileage varies.

To me, Huw was a vital part of that era's sound and when he left, I was
devastated. I went to the St. Albans gig of the first tour without him
and kept thinking "shit, where is Huw? How come he has gone?"
Unfortunately, the atmosphere wasn't very good at that gig (there were
some hecklers on the balcony who kept shouting "Hawkshit!") and I didn't
really enjoy it. I made a diabolical ultra-crap tape of it (barely
listenable) but when I listened to it a few months ago, the band
actually put in a really good performance - very impressive in fact.

BTW, I saw a gig list which had Bridgit listed in the personnel and I
have absolutely no recollection of her being there that night.

Mark

In message <4.1.20000506223428.009b9840 at pophost.tardis.ed.ac.uk>, Dave
Berry <daveb at TARDIS.ED.AC.UK> writes
>I hold the reverse view.  There are only one or two of Huw (& Marion)'s songs
>that I like.  Moonglum is superb, but that's mainly for the guitar part -- the
>intro alone is excellent!  Dragons And Fables I like.  Some of his
>instrumental's are fine, but the other songs do nothing for me.  Dreaming City,
>Waiting For Tomorrow, Sea King, Rocky Paths, and Solitary Mind Games are just
>gaps between the decent stuff.
>
>I can't say the the 79-89 period holds much HW output that I really like, but
>where it does work (TIH:DNP, LC, some of XC), Huw's sound is a key part of it.
>
>Dave.