Tag: hawkwind
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Kleptones – AD
If I was to choose one word to describe The Kleptones fourth album in the ‘quadtriptych’ it would be angry. Not a misplaced or random anger, but a righteous one about the state of the world at the moment. Starting with hypnotic Alan Watts quotes and strange spoken word about reality, truth and cake, it…
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Favourite albums / tracks of 2015
Ian Fondue asked me to post my favourite albums/songs of 2015. Not necessarily released in 2015, this year I tended to listen to older releases, Pitchfork and Stereogum are mostly confusing to me, the first year it’s mostly a bunch of names I have no idea who they are! It’s a long list, partly because…
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Coil on the Beach
Through listening to Hawkwind (Space Ritual album which is recommended) – who interestingly also used the EMS VCS3 to disturbing effect – I googled to find out how Del Dettmar could afford one, (answer: they were actually the cheapest synth at the time, still a hefty for then £350, I guess they weren’t totally broke?)…
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Hawkwind with the Prince of the Hawk-Men
I heard this via Stewart Lee standing in for Stuart Maconie on the Freak Zone – genius combining Brian Blessed (Prince Vultan of the Hawk-Men in Flash Gordon) with Hakwind on this remake of Sonic Attack. Completely mental, in the best way.
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The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain at the Proms
On Tuesday I made my first ever trek to the BBC Proms to listen to silly ukelele music and nearly 1,000 people play Ode to Joy, as you do. Yes I was at Proms 45 to hear the The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain – an 8 piece band, they’ve been going for24 years doing…