Your Android Replica...

...is playing up again it's no joke.
When she comes she moans another's name,
But that's the spirit of the age, (spirit of the age)
That's the spirit of the age (spirit of the age)..."

Happy Winter Solstice for yesterday friends, pagans, hippies & Hawkfans. Getting to Stonehenge or Avebury for the A.M. didn't happen but the weather was a bit murky anyway *shrugs*

However Hawkwind helped us celebrate in style :)



OK, so Big C was late out of work and that meant we got there 2 hours after the start of the show :( We missed the support, Spacehead, and the start of the Hawks show, coming in on "Out Here We Are" from the latest "Take Me to your Leader" album. We grabbed a couple of cans from the bar before heading out into the crowd to go soak up the atmosphere ;) Oh, and the usually brilliant psychedellic lightshow :)

Captain Brock was at his best again with great performances by the steadfast Davey & Chadwick, Jason Stuart on keyboards and classic Turner-esque noises from Jez Huggett and his enchanted Saxophone.

So we got an earful of new tracks like "To love a Machine" and "Greenback Massacre" and the recently rejuvenated, re-vamped & re-released Calvert classic "Spirit of the Age" with a smattering of classics from their 36 year repertoire - "Psy Power" (Hawklords, right?), "Psychedellic Warlords", "Love in Space", "D-Rider", "Hassan I Sabha (Assassins of Allah)" & "Brainstorm" from what I remember. Magic stuff.

And the dancers were back! Blacklight with fluorescent body paint, glowing appendages, dayglo androids and psychedellic nymph girls with giant butterfly wings blowing bubbles over the audience... that's what I call entertainment :)

Next gig is the RoadBurn Festival in Holland, April 2006... anyone fancy a trip?