HW: RFH

[Wright, Mike]

I sort of agree with Alastair. Alex and I were sitting in row L at the left
hand side, just under the balcony. We had pretty terrible sound all night.
Barely heard any guitar, vocals from the bottom of a bucket, quiet drums,
muffled everything, with occassionally bits of something coming through. It
was a shame cos it looked as if they were enjoying themselves on stage.

My few song titles I can remember (in no particular order) are

Lighthouse, Moonglum, Levitation, Spiral Galaxy 28948 (bits of violin heard
here), The Watcher (poor vocals I thought), Angels of Death, New Jerusalem,
Motorway City, Hurry on Sundown, Assassins of Allah.
The 2 poems that Mike M did vocals for were Sonic Attack and Damned by the
Curse of Man
encore A+B, Golden Void

Disappointment with the strong line up of musicians Dave, Ali, Tim, Keith,
Richard, Huw, Simon & Jez (arguably the most skillful musicians that have
graced the HW lineup) who were having fun and all I could hear was mush.
Also a bit worried that there appeared to be no new songs. Due to not having
Jerry R or Ron the songs chosen were quite laid back, not as punky. No punky
silver machine or Alchemy. Also after hearing the raves about Canterbury I
was sad that this one didn't work for me.

The lighting was good, with worthwhile projections on the big back screen,
oil lamps and whirling coloured flowers/suns/brains/etc. RFH chairs are
tiny, and I had to stand for a while, to keep circulation below the knee.
Was there anything good on the merchandise stall?

Anyone else with other memories?

Big Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alastair Lee Sumner [mailto:als at POSTMASTER.CO.UK]
> Sent: 11 October 2001 14:14
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
> Subject: Re: HW: RFH
>
>
> I couldn't get into it at all last night, a combination of my bad mood
> created by the redundancies at my workplace yesterday,
> thoughts of war and
> the appalling mixing last night. It's a shame because it
> looked like it was
> probably a good gig if you could hear anything properly. I
> think I could
> just about hear Dave Brock's guitar but I'm not sure. His
> vocals were way
> too loud at the start of some songs. I couldn't hear any sax
> whatsoever
> until the encore. And the rest sounded Yuri Gargarin on acid.
> So much for
> my 5th row, almost dead center, best seat in the house.  I
> did at least
> like Tim Blake and Dave Brock doing New Jerusalem? and Ali
> Daveys's head
> gear. But overall I was dead to Hawkwind last night and it
> sounded shite.
>
> Alastair.
>


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