HW @ Cambridge (was Re: Northampton gig)

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:53:42PM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson typed out:
> ;)  Well, it's true.  I'd like to see either band spread the set-list 
> out a bit more, temporally.  Motorhead certainly has some great stuff 
> from the last 15 years, enough that they could easily pick a few 
> kick-ass songs from (just about) every album in the catalogue for 
> inclusion in the set.  

	Now that I think more about this, I wasn't quite being fair on 
Motorhead: they do usually fit `Sacrifice' in there somewhere, which has 
to be one of the most modern-sounding pieces they do. All the same, I'd 
rather like to see `Slow Dance', `Stay Out of Jail', `On Your Feet Or 
On Your Knees' or `Sex and Death', and I could probably give up one or 
two of the _Bomber_/_Ace of Spades_ songs to see that happen...

> Hawkwind's back catalogue .... is a kind of 
> sprawling autoincestous affair where it's sometimes hard to tell what's 
> an album and what's not -- but even so, it's clear they could take a few 
> more tracks from the 80s and 90s than they currently do.  HW are welcome 
> to play "Sputnik" and "LSD" any time, as far as I'm concerned :)  We 
> could have "War I Survived" perhaps, and it'd be interesting to try to 
> work in something from the CotBS material .... what about "Dreaming City"?

	I suppose they were doing `Sword of the East' until quite 
recently, and when Huw's on board we *usually* get `Moonglum', but, 
just, it was noticeable this time out that other than `Images' and the 
two TMtYL tracks everything was written before, well, before I was born.

> Of course, I'd trade it all in for a pulsing, brain-pummeling dish of 
> brand-new return-to-form crazed space-blanga ... but then that's always 
> been true ;)

	Coming to see Litmus on Friday then? :-) Yours,
							Jon
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