HW: Knights of Space audio mix

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:05:24PM -0600, mike coleman typed out:
> also, isn't it maybe time Hawkwind was moving on label-wise,   going by
> their own history, and maybe this is what we are witnessing, just a thought

	Well, they have been trying to leave Voiceprint for some time, 
haven't they? There was the EMI deal that fell through, there was talk 
of a deal with Sanctuary, and I waas quite surprised with the Cherry Red 
thing too. But somehow it keeps being Voiceprint. Now, why would that 
be? Well, people with long memories round here may recall that before 
Mike C. returned to this particular digital fold, I found myself sitting 
on a train opposite Arthur Brown, and once I'd dared to open the 
conversation, the merits or not of Voiceprint came up because they'd 
just re-released the Kingdom Come albums with a single set of liner 
notes repeated between the three and a dreadful new sleeve each. He said 
to me, he said something like, "Well, you have to think very hard about 
this sort of thin, because at the end of the day a label like Sanctuary 
will give you forty pence per CD sold and Voiceprint will give you one 
pound twenty." I've never really wondered why Hawkwind can't quite bring 
themselves to do without Voiceprint since that conversation. Yours,
								    Jon

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