SALISBURY CITY HALL

[Cerberus]

A fast journey through a darkened New Forest brings us to tonight's gig in
Salisbury city.  This is special, for The Hi Fi Company  are playing
support.  Members of Eatstatic And Tangerine Dream(Merv Pepler and Steve
Joliffe} have come together for a world premiere performance..........in
Salisbury.....uhhhhhhh.

Unfortuntely, this much anticipated venture sounds like so  many other
techno-trance outfits.  Its good, but there is nothing new happening here to
our ears, so we go into audience watching mode.
There's a dance floor at the venue, and young and old(er) audience members
are making the best of it.  You can also smoke!, so we are definitely having
a good time(DFFL).  Ron Tree is also spotted, mingling with the crowd.

Nine fifteen and the band take the stage in high spirits.  All thoughts of
mortal conceptuality disappear in a cloud of smoke.  Hawkwind are on fire
tonight.  After the blistering mind assault that was Poole Arts Centre we
had no reason to expect that it could get any better, but it does.  The
single thought is that they have no right to sound this good.  There has to
be some supernatural/alien connection going on here.  At Poole we
established that Dave Brock definitely has advanced telepathic abilities,
last night in Salisbury confirmed it.  Attune your head correctly and you
can actually see his thought patterns.  They are green, laser like, and at
times spell out "Hawkwind" on the walls at the rear of the hall.  Huw is
having a ball......all hail Huw, the man with the guitar that fuels and
ignites the mighty Hawkwind mix.  Richard's drumming has reached a tribal
nexus and must surely be the ultimate Hawk-Engine with Ali completing the
fuel-injection mixture. Captain Black's  and Simon's simultaneous
keyboarding skills  are a most welcome addition to the current line-up.  We
must also mention that Simon's violin is possessed, but an exorcism is
definitely not required.  All this... plus.. rear projections/strobes/smoke
machine - what more do you want people? - Catch this tour!

It is such a cool deal watching the continual progression of Hawkwind.
Credit to a band that are ever-experimenting after all these years.    It
would be so easy just to appease the die-hards by playing Brainstorm, Silver
Machine etc ...... but no, evolving musically is a constant with Hawkwind,
and whether you agree with it or not, you certainly have to respect it.
HAWKWIND = RESPECT.

Backstage, its hard to believe that the relaxed Dave (who is a terribly
friendly chap) and other members of the band are really The Sonic
Assassin's, worshipped this world over, plus several other planets within
this solar system.   They are real genuine people, a family, albeit a large
one.

Our thanks to Dave and the band and to the ever amazing Kris Tait for
looking after us so well.  It should not be forgotten that this lady does an
incredible amount of work behind the scenes and we definitely have her
autograph!!!! - She's great.

We have had a great time
Gary&Anna