Hawkfest 2003 thoughts

[alan day]

JMy thoughts for what thy're worth...I had a wonderful time with my
highlight being ALL DAY SATURDAY!! Thanks so much for giving us HW nuts a
real day to remember!! I was on cloud 99.9 watching the sound check which
turned into several Utopias, "2 blinding coded languages (45-30rpm) oh
blissful heaven!! Great people lots of fun The moon cafe was great! Please
next year!! CDom quick!AL>


>From: Alan Linsley <alankerren at YAHOO.CO.UK>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Subject: Hawkfest 2003 thoughts
>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:58:13 +0100
>
>Well I thought that was the fantastic.  The festival was excellently
>organised, just the right scale, good layout, plenty of space.  I
>enjoyed my "veggie crap" from the cafe (sorry carnivores), they did
>well to keep the food going all weekend.  And I was particularly
>impressed by the big inflatable phallic lighting system nearby.
>
>Beautiful part of the country too.  I went on a 30 mile cycle ride on
>the Sat morning, nice scenery and FLAT!  And did everybody notice the
>names of the 2 villages down the A6 from the site?  "Brock" and
>"Barton"!  Good omens there I think.
>
>Best non-HW music for me was Arthur Brown and Instant Flight, who
>played a superb set of 60s-style psychedelic pop on Friday night.  Nice
>to see Arthur doing his flaming headset routine.  Astonishing to think
>IF had never gigged with Arthur until then.  Big Amongst Sheep were
>also pretty good.  Didn't see much of the other bands, except some
>pretty indifferent stuff from Relentless and Little Big Men.
>
>Nice to see Dave joining Spacehead for a cracking version of Choose
>Your Masques, and then we were treated to one of the best HW
>performances I have ever seen.  With Harvey's set featuring 6 other
>Hawks we effectively had more or less 3.5 hrs of HW music, and damn
>good it was too.  Setlist for those interested -
>
>Harvey Bainbridge set (approx 8:30 - 9:45)
>------------------------------------------
>Coded Languages (w. DB/AD/RC/HLL)
>Waiting For Tomorrow - instrumental jam version (w. DB/RC/HLL/Dibs)
>Waiting For Tomorrow - with vocals this time! (w. DB/RC/HLL/Dibs)
>Mutation Zone (w. Martin Griffin & Dibs)
>Dreamworker...
>...(sounded like) Stonehenge Decoded....
>...Freefall
>(I think HLL came back for Freefall but I can't remember)
>
>Hawkwind set (approx 9:45 - midnight)
>-------------------------------------
>Arrival In Utopia
>Time Captives
>The Watcher
>Magnu
>Chronoglide Skyway
>The Right Stuff
>Wings
>Hurry On Sundown
>Brainbox Pollution
>Spirit of the Age
>Green Finned Demon
>Abducted
>Angela Android
>Assault & Battery
>The Golden Void
>Where Are They Now?
>Assassins of Allah
>Master of the Universe
>
>Particular memories and favourite moments -
>Dave telling us after Arrival... that our Utopia was here, one of the
>best versions of Magnu I've ever heard, Kris & Tone taking a
>well-deserved on-stage bow somewhere in that set, scary overheard
>projections of blokes jumping out of planes during Freefall, Dave
>bringing on a chair during Wings to sit on but pushing it away coz he
>just carried on standing up and thrashing that guitar for us
>(yeaaayy!), Dave taking the mick out of Simon for nipping off to the
>toilet before he was due to play Chronoglide Skyway, the Submarine
>Magician Returning To His Home for the first time in years, Where Are
>They Now? going from strength to strength and all 10 of them onstage at
>the end for an absolute belter of a version of Master of the Universe.
>Who needs Silver Machine eh?
>
>Spent Sunday loitering around the site chatting to other Hawkfans too
>numerous to list, waiting for our free CDs.  Then went home early, just
>felt that any other music after that HW set would be just too much of
>an anti-climax.  Hope those of you that stayed had a great Sunday night
>with the Levellers.
>
>The only gripe I can think of was that blasted dance tent - too loud
>and too often, Hawkestra foyer all over again IMHO.
>
>Thanks for the organisers for a great and very memorable event, well
>done, and thanks to all the people who took time to chat, it was great
>to meet you all.  Let's hope we get another Hawkfest next year.
>
>AL
>
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