HW: Barney exhibit

[cosmos at WANADOO.NL]

>Finally got to see it this afternoon.
>
>If you're at all interested in the history of Hawkwind, you'll kick yourself
>if you miss it - it's only on until Thursday though so get your skates on!
>Lots of great stuff - the Space Ritual stage design notes, lots of unused
>artwork, and (my favourite) the film loop that was planned to be used on the
>Hawklords tour: a lo-fi b&w assembly of strange and gritty imagery, which
>reminded me of the film loops used nowadays by Godspeed You Black Emperor!,
>except this was a quarter of a century ago...
>
>There's also lots of prime cuts from FRIENDS magazine, including the famous
>Hawkwind kite, and they've even cut out and asembled the kite (from a colour
>photocopy, natch!).  And a kind of tarot layout, from IT in 1971, with the
>lyrics to "Born to Go" and "Infinity" scattered among the cards...
>
>What comes through clearly is how central Barney was to Hawkwind's imagery
>in the seventies - not simply an illustrator, but an originator of ideas.
>
>It's supposed to be at the Nik gig at Blackpool on Sunday, but looking at
>the scale of the exhibit (it's all mounted on about forty heavy boards each
>about one metre by two, and is more properly an installation), I don't think
>they'll physically be able to move it all in time, so it probably won't be
>the full exhibit; and the pieces will probably be dispersed to their various
>owners after that.
>
>I was graciously allowed to take a few photos - though not of the film,
>sadly, and nothing too detailed - and they might might their way onto a
>website at some point.
>
>(By the way, some of the Space Ritual design stuff did make in into the
>packaging for the 1999 PARTY album, so if you've got that, then you have one
>of the bigger pieces of the jigsaw.)
>
>-- Andy

isn't it weird or strange that during the reunion last year not even ONE
word was said about robert calvert
and/or barney bubbles.............
dead but forgotten by ALL the members of hawkwind :)

andre