[boc-l] And now... a word from our sponsor

[Michael Holmes]

On 09/05/2016 14:52, Arin Komins wrote:
>
> I miss the community we used to have here as well.  It seems much of 
> that conversation and camaraderie that used to be here has shifted 
> onward to FB.
>
> So, onto some actual HW-related content:
>
> Now that the gigs are mostly done for the tour; what did everyone 
> think?  Still listening to the new album on repeat?  Waiting for the 
> single?
>
>
Well, the new songs were very much better on tour than they were at 
Seaton. I think HawkEaster would have been more enjoyable if they hadn't 
played the same gig two nights - one night should have been given over 
to just enjoying some old and less usual numbers. On tour though they 
really shone and the interplay between Haz & Dave were a big part of 
that. And yes, still waiting on the single. Meanwhile I read The Machine 
Stops for the first time since school. It's surprising in a lot of ways. 
There's the author forseeing what we'd now call the Internet; the 
concept that this would atomise people; the dystopian idea that some 
kind of eco-catastrophe would drive us underground; the loss of 
knowledge; the generally downbeat ending. Many of these ideas became 
currency for later stories such as War of the Worlds (underground 
cities). Rollerball (knowledge of how to control the machinery being 
lost), THX118 (pretty much a rewrite of the story itself), and countless 
1970s SF dystopian stories feature a technological atomisation and 
downbeat ending.

So all in all a great choice of story and an excellent musical 
realisation of it. I'm saddened by the folks who've fallen out of the 
airlocks on this one because I do think they're missing something.

FoFP
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