Blasphemy: which Nik?

[Stephan Forstner]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:46:03 +0100, M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
>Can someone in the know please tell us which of the recordings involving
>Nik and the sundry ex-members of Hawkwind are good ones involving a
>reasonable smattering of Hawkwind tracks?
>
>It might also be useful to list which ones to absolutely avoid.

I'm not in the know, but I've got a handful of these - I assume you mean
just the recent post-2000 stuff, which has been primarily Hawkwind tracks.
I think that to date there have only been 2 official releases, both on
Ozit, the first being the '2001 A Space Odyssey Live' double silver-CD
release, and the second being the 'Live at Glastonbury and Guildford 2002'
CD-R. Space Odyssey was (rightly) raked over the coals for its sub-bootleg
quality sound so its probably not a good choice. I thought G&G was flawed
but worthy, so I lean toward a yes on that one, I liked it quite a bit at
the time. Apparently there is a 3rd release coming soon, another live disc
called Live at the Cygnian Electric Ballroom on Venus or something like
that which supposedly features the usual tracks but promises to be better
quality than either of the 2 preceding releases, AndyG might have more info
as I got the news via one of his mailings. Note also that Nik supports
trading and there have been several shows distributed on NeoQuark with
sound quality much better than Space Odyssey and almost as good or as good
as G&G.

Stephan