Astoria last night / Good support bands.

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:00:21AM +0000, Iain Ferguson typed out:
> I can only think of Vardis ( i'm sure they supported hawkwind, or did 
> they just cover Silver Machine, o the old memory is going....  Worst 
> bands, how about for starters Baron Rojo from about 83

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> Steve Freight wrote:

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> >don't think so somehow. This raised a discussion point last night - why are
> >Hawkwind support bands invariably poor?

	I've always wondered about Baron Rojo since some kind soul on 
here supplied me with a copy of the 1983 tour programme. (I'm pretty 
sure it was a Steve but I don't remember which one, we have had so 
many...) They did look as if they must been awesomely terrible, 
particularly the knackered-Burt-Reynolds-a-like drummer. Glad to know 
they lived up to appearances! Yours,
				     Jon

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