film footage

[Johan Edlundh]

At 17:14 2007-03-20, you wrote:
>continuing on the film footage theme. it is said that on the 14th or 15th
>september 1973 swedish television filmed the hawks at either mantorps or
>gothenburg. although only "masters" was aired on swedish tv the whole gig
>was supposed to have been filmed. according to all the places i have looked
>there was only one swedish tv company at that time which was svt, if this is
>true maybe this footage can be tracked down. is there anyone out there from
>that part of the world that knows any more?
>john-paul

hi folks,
from the vaults:
(boc-l - 1 Dec 2000 16:59:06)

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1973.09.15 Swedish television filmed a Peace and Love festival in
Scandinavium, Gothenburg, where the Hawks was one of 6-8 bands playing
all night. The whole set was filmed, and was broadcasted almost a year
later - 1974.07.26 - in our second uncommercial channel TV2, local
time 21:35.

I got a clip from the tv guide in the local tabloid paper Aftonbladet
26th of July 1974, saying "Rymdpop, Tasavallan och Pugh i jättegala"

There's a big color pic of an eight musicnauts strong Hawkwind, along
with the following [fast] translated text:

"The pop festival in Gothenburg was a disapoinment, said the critics.
The English Space Poppers Hawkwind, with its light- and soundshow
"Space Ritual" was one of the more interesting piece, meant one
recencent."

The Hawkwind shot was well cut down - only a 2-3 mins passage of the
second verse of Master of the Universe was left - but "it was HEAVY"
claims hawkfriend K.Sören Bengtsson of darXtar, who is remembering
Seeing It As It Really Were in his parents television set.

Nazareth was on the festival bill, but didn't show up.

Hawkwind was probably on stage at the same minute our old king died, that
very evening in 1973. There was no mention of something Earthly as a pop
festival in the papers the days after, for understandable reasons.


If you got a time machine, and manage to tune in 26th of July, National
Swedish Broadcast TV2, 21:35 - you've also got 2-3 minutes of Master of the
Universe.

Unfortunally the Royal Swedish Television have erased all media from this
event to save Space on their shelves.







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