HAWKWIND LIVE at the ABC GLASGOW

When i first heard "Masters Of The Universe" on the Tommy Vance Show many years ago it was one of the most amazing , profound things i ever heard.It proved to my senses that music is the King of Arts and can really take your Spirit higher on to levels that no other artform can.

Ive seen Hawkwind two times before , they werent that good.First was at the Glasgow Apollo and the second time at the Barrowlands.They have had too many personnel changes to have a settled coherent line-up and consistency.At the Apollo the music was wayward and the Barrowlands had going through the motions quasi-sessions musicians which were embarrassing , cringeworthy and a parody of themselves.

The line-up last year was also said to be universally ranked as a shameful episode in a band whose music is so appreciated by lovers of heavy bass melodies and a unique language of guitar playing that so fires the imagination.

But this concert was the best ive seen them and even veterans of watching the band for over forty-one years were fulsome in their praise for what ranked as the best ever performances they had seen.They were fantastic , this current line-up really believe in the music and even the dancers blend in unobtrusively to enhance rather than distract from the music.

Big highlights of this journey included "Kings Of Speed".


Magnu


This review of a concert earlier in the tour gives a good impression of how the audience felt.

"I have seen the band twice previously, at a storming gig at Keele University back in the late 1980’s, and a couple of years ago at Guilfest where they were not so impressive. Happy to report to tonight quite possibly the best gig yet I have seen by them.

Led by Dave Brock, the line-up includes the returning Dead Fred (Hawkwind band members past & present have great stage names it has to be said) on keyboards/violin/vocals who was last in the band back in the mid-80’s and Tim Blake on theremin is quite hypnotising to watch. The only other time I have seen this instrument used live is by John Otway."

Other standout songs were Hashish ( or words to that effect).


And a stunning version of Utopia