HW: NIK: The upcoming North American tourS

[mike c]

Hey Keith
thank you VERY much for causing me to visit Nik's site and see there
is a box set of Space Gyspy with extra mixes, etc.
I am really bad about looking at sites, (lack of) money tend to cause
that, thanks.


On 9/26/13, Keith Henderson <khenders64 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Folx...
>
>
> Let's see...I haven't really read all the nonsense about the namewars, but I
> wanted to at least see what the hell Nik's tour is going to be, in case it
> would be worth another road trip in short order.
>
> OK, so it certainly isn't Nik Turner's Hawkwind.  We knew that.  But now I
> realize that it isn't even Nik Turner's Space Ritual!!  'Cause I've just
> been to the Space Ritual website, and "they" (minus Nik himself, apparently)
> are swearing that they have absolutely nothing to do with the album/tour.
> So, no Terry Ollis, Mick Slattery, Dave Anderson/Jerry Richards, Tom
> Crimble,
>  etc....
>
> Which is confirmed at nikturner.com, since he points to the following
> partial lineup as being his US touring band:
>
> Nik - Sax, Flute, Vocals
> Nicky Garratt (of UK Subs) - Guitar
> Jeff Piccinini (aka Geoff Myles) (ex-Chelsea (UK*), currently Revenant**) -
> Bass
> Juergen Engler (of Die Krupps) - Synths, 2nd Guitar (?)
> Unknown Drummer (presumably there will be one)
>
> Given the punk (and/or industrial) pedigree of these folks, it would seem
> this would be more like an Inner City Unit-type ensemble than anything.
> Which is just as much a Cleopatra emphasis as space rock/prog ever was, if
> not more so.  So marketing this band as anything HWish or SpaceRitualish is
> kinda false advertising, although maybe they will play MotU and Brainstorm
> in the old ICU style, in addition to all the new stuff from Space Gypsy.
> (When does that come out?)
>
> *not to be confused with the US Chelsea, with Peter Criss (of Kiss)
>
> **I'm listening to a
>  Revenant (US-based?) tune right now (first time) "Dark Church" that sounds
> like The Cult (not half-bad) - other tunes are not quite so noteworthy....
>
> Well, they are playing Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, so maybe I might make
> the effort if early reviews are promising.  Last time I saw Nik (opening for
> Gong w/ Hillage in London in 2010), he seemed a lot slower and older than I
> remember from just a few years earlier...hope he's got the energy for an
> ambitious long-distance tour schedule.  The US is a big place.  All those
> long, lonely freeways and intersections we've got up here.
>
> As far as the actual Hawkwind tour is concerned, it looks like I will be
> heading to Philadelphia, Washington DC, & Cleveland for (reasonably) sure,
> with Chicago being a game-time decision (the venue there looks pretty
> interesting...kinda looks like the hall in London where they did the 40th
> anniversary show in 2010.)  Hope to see some folks
>  there.  Sorry to be missing Toronto, but I have to work those days.  Is it
> really sold out??  Is that venue rather small or something?
>
> Keith H. (State College PA)
>