Hawklords: Glasgow 19/10/12

[mike c]

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On 10/22/12, Mike Holmes <fofp at staffmail.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Arrived in Glasgow to meet an old friend for a meal at the Roundhouse
> near the SECC - now a Chinese/Japanese/Thai restaurant and had a very
> nice Tom Yum soup and Crispy Chilli Beef.
>
> Over thirty years ago Tony and I were students together and ran
> minibuses to Edinburgh and Glasgow to see Hawkwind gigs. I also did my
> first Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals in his company. So Tony, his
> new wife Julie, and Lucy and I set off from there to The Ferry.
>
> I'd been expecting one of those under-the-boardwalk nightclubs and was
> pleasantly surprised to see that The Ferry was in fact a boat. The
> insides had been hollowed out to form a nightclub, with a bar and stage
> on the lower deck and a kind of three sided balcony upstairs with more
> tables and a bar.
>
> Unfortunately the backing band was one of those who figured that quality
> can be traded with volume and came on at such an earsplitting level that
> simple thought, let alone conversation, was impossible.  Or so I thought
> anyway. Julie is in fact a sign-language interpreter and had a hurried
> conversation in Sign with Tony. Even an Aspie could have figured out it
> was Sign for "Let's get the fuck outta here!"
>
> Since Julie's day job is to interpret into sign, she values her hearing
> perhaps more than most of us. She'd decided to call it quits. I tried
> suggesting that Hawklords were unlikely to do the same, but she was
> clearly upset.
>
> We all walked her back to her hotel and had a drink there before heading
> back. The band had started when we got there. The lineup was Ron tree,
> Jerry Richards, Harvey Bainbridge, and Adrian Shaw. I didn't recognise
> the drummer. I'd expected Steve Swindells since he's on their new album,
> but no luck there.
>
> They played a mixed set between stuff from the new album and older
> tracks. I recognised "We Are One" and "The Mothership", "Time Split
> Vision" and "Spark In The Dark" from the album and they played "Psi
> Power", "25 Years", "Master of the Universe", "Brainstorm", "Damnation
> Alley" and "Silver machine". It was a pretty energetic performance (at
> reasonable volume) with Ron being his usual self. Harvey and Jerry were
> very much on form and made the gig for me, and they were pretty tight
> and clearly rehearsed, with none of the looseness that comes with some
> of the Nik-inspired outings. They brought at least some of the new
> tracks to life in a way that just doesn't come through on the album,
> mainly I think through Harvey, who really is a wizard of the keys these
> days. I bet he could do a mean Doctor Who theme.
>
> FoFP
>
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