Hawkwind: Best ever set list?

[Michael Holmes]

On 07/04/2015 23:07, strobridge jill wrote:
> De-lurking briefly..........
>
> The band's 2nd set at Hawkeaster this year.  Many will undoubtedly disagree
> but is this the best ever Hawkwind set list?   Certainly the best I've
> heard.
Seconded! Them playing a full New Jerusalem was the best I've ever heard 
that track live and the first time since 1979. Also a great Flying 
Doctor, Zarozinia, and You'd Better Believe It.


>
> Earth calling
> Assault and Battery
> Elegant intro into Golden Void (with some beautiful black and golden thread
> globe images)
> Utopia  [with extended lyrics]
> Time We Left  [some very sharp harsh edgy music here]
> Steppenwolf
> New Jerusalem [yes, I shall repeat that: New Jerusalem]  The extended
> beautiful delicate intro evolved into the full song with Dibbs doing the
> vocals
> Flying Doctor [a long extended version]
> The Only Ones
> A Dave Brock ballad - in the same key as Mirror of Illusion but it isn't
> Zarozinia
> Orgone Accumulator
> Psychedelic Warlords
> Hassan I Sahba - with Arabian interlude in the middle - as the final song
>
> Encore:
> Lord of Light (I think - I'd stopped taking notes by this point)
> Better Believe It - another long extended version with the dancing skeleton
> images
>
> started 9.15pm finished 11.15pm(ish) and it was very warm inside that hall
>
> Thanks to the band and everyone else involved for an excellent weekend
> and best wishes for their short Tokyo tour!
>
> [pulls up cloak hood and disappears again]


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