HW: Bedouin/Alan Davey stuff

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

July should see the Bedouin CD out.
Andy G.
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From: "rob burton" <rob5burton at HOTMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: HW: Bedouin/Alan Davey stuff


> Saw them at Newcastle under Lyme two weeks ago and totally agree with you.
> Bedouin are awesome and need to get a cd out soon.
>
> Rob
>
>
> >From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
> >Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> >To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
> >Subject: Re: HW: Bedouin/Alan Davey stuff
> >Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 23:15:06 +0100
> >
> >On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Neil Ward wrote:
> >
> > > Alan then wanted Bedouin to play some gigs Feb/March, but did not want
> >to
> > > book anything which might clash with Hawkwind dates, so they got held
> >off
> > > until the Hawk dates were confirmed. This is why there was no chance
of
> >him
> > > playing the Cambridge Rock Society gig in early March, which he was
not
> > > actually contacted about properly until mid/late January. He is still
> > > willing to play this or any other venue, but only if they don't clash
> >with
> > > any proposed future Hawkwind dates, other projects, etc. He said he
was
> > > still waiting to hear back from the promoters confirming the Cambridge
> >gig,
> > > and very much resents being accused of 'he couldn't be arsed to sort
out
> >a
> > > gig in Cambridge' by some. (There, I've put it in nice words rather
than
> > > quoting Alan directly :-) )
> >
> >         Well, since I've just found this lying in the lesser-trod
portions
> >of my INBOX (which you may have noticed have been undergoing a clearout
> >lately), I felt I should post a review of that there gig that eventually
> >did get organised. Obviously it's not impartial :-) But this will be
going
> >up on that BBS I usually write my reviews for, and so though it preaches
> >to knowlessmen I thought some of you might be interested anyway...
> >
> >Subject: Bedouin + The Nova Express, Cambridge Boat Race, 18/05/01
> >
> >         "Okay, it's difficult to be dispassionate about this one
> >considering I started it. Andy Hudson did the work but I linked the
people
> >up. You may therefore be unsurprised to discover I thought it was great.
> >Do I ever go to a bad gig, you may be asking? Well of course not! Why
> >would you? I can't afford many gigs, I make bloody sure I go and see good
> >bands. And Hawkwind of course but just lately they've been on the nail
> >anyway.
> >
> >         "This sort of gets me onto the actual gig of which I speak, in
> >that Alan Davey, who is Bedouin's main man and plays the bass and sings,
> >is also in Hawkwind. But first, The Nova Express. Paul Simmons, their
> >guitarist, had described them to me as noisy punk acid folk sort of stuff
> >with female vocals, and that was all I knew as they took the stage except
> >that the drummer looked like a dweeb but was apparently going out with
the
> >clearly personality- and brains-full singer. So I was quite pleasantly
> >surprised to find that they sounded a lot like a punk band founded by and
> >sung for by Tori Amos. The singer wasn't as good as Tori or anything but
> >she sounded that way, and on an empirical scale she was pretty good.
> >Everything from the jagged-edge gasping sigh through the achingly sweet
> >melodic melancholy to the full-out teeth-bared punk bitch yell. But she
> >had pigtails. And her other problem was being upstaged by Paul. He is
> >really an excellent guitarist. Psychedelic doesn't cover it. He plays
> >beautifully. And also riffs like a so-and-so. At different points, and
> >sometimes even at the same ones. His technical ability may not be as good
> >as say, Bari Watts or Steve Hillage, to name two psych guitar kings, but
> >his diversity of styles is massive and he seems natural with it. He
played
> >one song with a bow. He also has a ruddy huge Orange amp which always
> >helps. But she kept attention on herself when he wasn't soloing. Her face
> >doesn't carry as much as her voice so watching her was slightly odd. Also
> >she sang to the drummer a lot of the time so the audience had to look at
> >her rear. Nice enough but that's not the point as far as expressing your
> >words goes.
> >
> >         "I did like her attitude though. Brought up there for no money
> >worth mentioning to do a gig for a different band's slot, she had them do
> >an Alchemysts number, `so you can hear what that sounds like. When it's
> >done properly.' And they made several new fans. Their set-list, as she
> >wrote it down, was: 2 Bit Punk/ Clone Star/ Electro (the Alchemysts
> >number)/ False Ramblin/ Ten Lions/ She Moves through the Fair (yes that
> >one, done in 4/4 with guitar breaks). So if you get a chance go see them,
> >they're good. Album out some time soon.
> >
> >         "Bedouin get better every time I see them. As I said to Alan. To
> >which he said, `That's the point, isn't it?' But they were bloody good.
> >Bedouin sound, often, like a psychedelic Motorhead. Except that they
> >occasionally attempt to sound vaguely Arabic, and their songs go on for
> >longer and have more complexity. But in terms of speed and attack,
they're
> >in that space. With the synths up as well there doesn't come any more
> >high-octane a brand of space rock than this. How it should be done. And
> >they didn't disappoint. Danny Thompson isn't the best drummer in the
world
> >but he's good enough now. Glenn Povey isn't the greatest guitarist in the
> >world but he's getting better than just being a Fast Eddie Clarke replica
> >as he used to be and that was still quite good. Alan plays very well
> >indeed as long as you're not one of these bass pedants who thinks that
> >treating it like a guitar is a bad thing to do. He can't sing but neither
> >can Lemmy (no small influence on Mr. Davey).
> >
> >         "I think what's worth mentioning more than that they kicked our
> >behinds brutally and that `ya know, it's a good kind of hurt,' and things
> >like that, that their sense of light and shade has developed in the years
> >they've been on the road (which are, even in this line-up, beginning to
> >approach three with no bloody album out yet - Alan's ideas about
promotion
> >are rather old-fashioned, he won't release an album until he has a good
> >deal and he won't have his stuff up for download, which as we know
> >basically radio play to targeted listeners as far a promotion goes, so
> >there's naff-all product except CD-Rs going for a tenner with sub-album
> >material on them... mmm.) and that they play more interesting stuff than
> >Motorhead who nevertheless remain their closest point of comparison. So
if
> >that sounds good try and catch them. I did and I still hurt from moshing
> >in a state of utter but uncaring fatigue. Album will be out in August, he
> >says.
> >
> >         "Set-list was, for those in the know about such things: LSD
> >(Hawkwind number of Alan's)/ Say Goodbye to Babylon/ Rock Palace/ As
Above
> >So Below (this is such a good song)/ Air Space/ Elric Pt. 2 (Hawkwind
> >again)/ One Moon Circles/ Demons in Denial/ Wings (another Hawkwind song
> >transformed by the Bedouin arrangement)/ Sputnik Stan/ Dagger Dance/
> >Vision Quest// Chasing the Dragon. Which missed out nothing I wanted to
> >hear except maybe `Arioch' and `The Call' but believe me I'm not
> >complaining. 18/20."
> >
> >         Yours,
> >                 Jon
> >--
> >        Jon Jarrett (01223 514989)     jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> >    =====================================================================
> >   "There is a certain pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know"
>
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