HW: NIK: The upcoming North American tourS

[Jonathan Smith]

Paypal should be banned-- it is much too easy to buy stuff!


On 27 September 2013 13:37, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have to buy it before the captain forbids it and before the rest of
> you suck it up :)
> sorry another one :)
>
> keith does this kind of anwser your question, I mean if my mails are
> not auto-deleted.
>
> On 9/27/13, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> > quick, somewbody paypal me some cash :) :)
> >
> > what am I supposed to do
> > this is bloody annoying
> >
> > On 9/27/13, Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Sort of amusing. It says Nik Turner's Space Ritual on the site. But
> >> enough...
> >>
> >> I was tempted by the extra mixes too-- I am sucker for that kind of
> >> thing.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 27 September 2013 12:55, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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)
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>
> >
>