HW: Barney exhibit

[Moonglum]

I got there today, too.  I was with the guy who used to be Stiff Records'
accountant, and he was mentioned (though not by name) in one of the
exhibits - a letter of Barney's to a friend.

It is a shame that a lot of the early material was cheaply printed & thus
doesn't look that great in the exhibition.  The Hawkwind stuff is the best.
My favourite was an original poster of the Astounding Sounds design that
found it's way onto the back cover (or the front if you have the 2nd
repress!)

The artists who put this on should document it on a website for evermore.

Andy, the occasional tube train sounds - do you think they were part of the
exhibition or for real?!

moonglum

----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Gilham <email at ANDYGILHAM.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: 07 August 2001 19:22
Subject: HW: Barney exhibit


> 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
>
> www.andygilham.com
>