[Hawkwind] Porchester.

[Steve Swann]

I'm bouncing this to BOC-L because Paul stole the words right out of my mouth.

I agree that the opening sequence was brilliant, and that smoothly
segued set of Warrior Poem / A&B / Golden Void / Where Are They Now?
is probably my favorite thing the current live set, and vying to be
one of my favorite things they've *ever* done...

I've never seen Rizz before, and I had a moment of near-Lovecraftian
horror when I realized they were about to have someone do Rap to
Spirit of the Age, but it was absolutely stonking - brought the house
down!

And let me add that the dancers were great.  The costumes and the
choreography were well thought out and added to the show.  I don't
always think that's so with the various sideshow attractions that
Hawkwind brings onstage with them :-) but this time it really worked.

Steve

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Paul
Eaton-Jones<Paul at imrryr.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> What a great day Saturday was. Well organised and well paced.
>
> I missed the acoustic set at the start as I was at The Cock & Bottle waiting
> for everyone to turn up for the Hawkwalk. Five of us did and wandered around
> some the trail. On our way to the Porchester Steve and I bumped into Dave
> and Kris. Perhaps he was re-tracing his old footsteps?
> TOSH were loud and heavy. Tarantism were ok and probably more suited to an
> open-air festival in the folk tent. The beat poet may have fitted into the
> old Hawk event as a performance artist but was poor. If you're going to have
> that sort of act our very own Paul Stevens would have been much better.
> Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band were brilliant. The only minus point were the few in
> the audience who insisted on talking very loudly over their set and couldn't
> be bothered to give them a chance.
> Huw was Huw. Flashes of former brilliance but not quite there. He has an
> enormous well of love and affection within the Hawk community and received
> warm and genuine applause when he went off.
> The Q&A session was amusing if not in any way illuminating. Dave almost took
> the edge of the proceedings when in answer to the question 'will there be a
> 50th?' replied, 'I might be dead' Richard and badger were very funny.
>   Hawkwind. After what I considered to be a soulless gig at York at the end
> of May they came back and blew me and the crowd away with a set of barely
> controlled sound and fury, energy and commitment. Apart from the addition of
> a couple of old favourites it was the same set but transformed beyond
> belief. The two opening numbers, Assault & Battery/The Golden Void which I
> consider poor opening tracks and which I've never heard good renditions of,
> were truly stunning. Loud, heavy, hard  and everything you'd want from an
> opening. [And how I wanted them to sound].
> They never looked back.
> Highlights from a virtual flawless set?
> Angels Of Death. A herd of buffalo stampeding down an oak staircase sums it
> up.
> SOTA. THE highlight. Rizz was magnificent. His vocal contributions were spot
> on and his jigging around the stage fitted right in. He has to be a major
> fan of the band and music to perform as he did. Young Toby on lead guitar
> was very good, Matthew Wright came on for backing vocals and everybody on
> stage were having a ball.
> Lord Of Light. Superb. Great extended jamming in the middle; ditto You'd
> Better Believe  It and Hassan I Sahba.
> Apart from the first Hawkwind concert I went to which is special this was
> probably the best one I've seen. A 10/10? Almost, though I'd be very hard
> pressed to say where they dropped a mark or even half a mark.
>
> So there're a just a few random thoughts and impressions. I will write up a
> full review for Brian but if anyone else is remotely interested I can make
> it available somehow.
> Paul.
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