HW: what's happening....

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, iainferguson at AOL.COM wrote:

> Those that hate modern Hawkwind will slag it, those that love em will praise it..

 	Ah, but, what's modern Hawkwind? The best Hawkwind I ever saw was 
in 2001 (though looking back I think everything I was experiencing that 
year was heightened by a variety of factors). Is that still modern? It's 
not 1972 Hawkwind but then I sometimes wonder whether anyone really 
knows what that was like. It sounds like 2009 Hawkwind is pulling a few 
stops out, new songs, long sets and so on. But any Hawkwind is better than 
no Hawkwind. When I bitch it's because something else has got in the way 
of there being more of it, or else that I'm cynically expecting something 
to do so. The core of this reaction is a grumpy junkie denied his fix...

> I have a ticket, but not a hotel room, because I'm not stumping up money 
> for a hotel until the lineup is confirmed..

 	Arthur Brown! Graham Coxon! Just like in 2003! Damn, sorry. What I 
mean is: I'll be happier not knowing who's playing than being told 
something they can't, in the end, deliver, so I can appreciate silence on 
this score.

> bugger I just discussed it...

 	Dammit, and here's us with our Trappist-like vow of silence eh? 
Yours,
 	Jon

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