HW:Hawkwind in Australia.

[Michael W Blackman]

Melbourne and Adelaide?  You tease, surely?
Yes come to Adelaide!!

In a message dated Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:23:37  AEDT, Marty Lawrence <mlawrenc at AU1.IBM.COM> writes:

> Hi
> Hawkwind were mean't to come to Australia in '78 part of a world tour, but
> it fell thru.
> When they toured in 2000, they played on the east coast only at :-
> Byron Bay,Sydney Metro & ABC Studio 22 and they also played at a festival in
> NSW.
> I have just checked the ABC website and alas the Studio 22 CD , doesn't
> contain any HW tracks.
> There was a high quality VHS tape available of the transmitted STudio 22
> session at one time from the ABC, but don't know if it's available now ?
> Ozhawks was formed by Paul Ward(sonique), there was a web page, but Paul
> didn't post anything after the band toured.
> There was an appreciation night in Melbourne with around 30 people
> attending,which was fun , chatting to other fans over a beer , paul played
> lots of Hawkwind and spinoff material.
> The guy who organised the AUS/NZ tour knew the band,and there was talk of
> them coming back early 2001, to include Melbourne & Adelaide, I believe
> that he is now back in the UK ?
>
> To the BAND PLEASE come back and play here again, it was great to see you.
>
> Marty