HW: Barney Bubbles 229 Club Gig

[Jonathan Smith]

I suppose it has to be a memorial for someone or something :)
Jonathan

2009/9/4 Ian Abrahams <ianabrahams1 at yahoo.co.uk>

> "Barney Bubbles’ long-time friend and admirer, former Hawkwind saxophonist
> Nik Turner, has been instrumental in organising this memorial concert
> celebrating the life and achievements of this most singular of multi-media
> artists, with a view to setting up a foundation/annual award for innovative
> album cover design, and a memorial plaque for him..."
>
> ...which all costs money!
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> So that's the idea of the show, a celebration of the work of Barney Bubbles
> by a collection of bands who had links to him, in order to raise some funds
> to do something in his honour, whether it be a plaque in Notting Hill (maybe
> at the site of the old Friends office) or an award in his name...
>
> Ian
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> ________________________________
> From: Dave Hall <david.hall6800 at NTLWORLD.COM>
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 12:05:42 AM
> Subject: Re: HW: Barney Bubbles 229 Club Gig
>
> Hi
>
> I've missed something here. Barney Bubbles Memorial gig - great! Benefit
> for what?
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> Regards
>
> Dave
> ---- Ian Abrahams <ianabrahams1 at YAHOO.CO.UK> wrote:
> > PRESS RELEASE
> THE HAWKLORDS HEADLINE AN ALL-DAY BARNEY BUBBLES MEMORIAL BENEFIT CONCERT
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> The 229 Club, 229 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5PN
> Sunday 29th November, 2009 from 2 – 10pm
> On 14th November 1983, the art and music worlds lost one of their most
> important and innovative figures with the death of the legendary graphic
> designer Barney Bubbles. His work as Hawkwind’s cover artist and stage-set
> creator established him as key figure in the Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill
> counter-culture scene, whilst his subsequent work with Stiff Records
> (including his designs for Elvis Costello’s album covers and his fractured
> Kandinsky-esque cover painting for The Damned’s Music For Pleasure LP)
> established his relevance to the punk/new-wave generation. He directed the
> seminal video for The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’ single, worked as art director
> at Friends magazine and was an early champion of Pennie Smith, who was to
> become one of rock’s most lauded photographers.
>  “...one of the most important graphic artists of his time.” Will Birch,
> ‘No Sleep ‘Till Canvey Island – The British Pub Rock Scene’.
> Barney Bubbles’ long-time friend and admirer, former Hawkwind saxophonist
> Nik Turner, has been instrumental in organising this memorial concert
> celebrating the life and achievements of this most singular of multi-media
> artists, with a view to setting up a foundation/annual award for innovative
> album cover design, and a memorial plaque for him...
> Headliners THE HAWKLORDS, featuring Adrian Shaw, Alan Davey, Harvey
> Bainbridge, Jerry Richards, Martin Griffin, Nik Turner, Ron Tree, Steve
> Swindells and Terry Ollis will perform Hawkwind’s 1973 stage extravaganza,
> Space Ritual, up-dated to 2009, supported by  The New Bubblettes dancers and
> lighting designs inspired by Liquid Len & The Lensmen.
> The day’s extensive line-up also features key 70s Notting Hill band
> QUINTESSENCE, The Damned founder-member Brian James, fronting his own BRIAN
> JAMES GANG, Nik Turner’s INNER CITY UNIT and the band created by Barney
> Bubbles,THE IMPERIAL POMPADOURS.
> Pentameters Players will perform their acclaimed staging of ROBERT
> CALVERT’s play, ‘The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice’.
> Also appearing during this memorial concert: JERRY FITZGERALD/LOL COXHILL’S
> ‘FRE-EX, TRIKIMIKI’S ‘3-D SPACE-WARP’, and D.J.. JEFF DEXTER
> “Barney was, as far as media direction of the youth of this country,
> probably the most important artist of our generation.” Douglas Smith,
> interviewed by Jonathon Green, ‘Days In the Life: Voices From The English
> Underground’.
> www.hawklords.com
> The 229 ticket hotline 0207 323 7229 * £20.00 advance, £25.00 door
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