www.plasticfragment.com – The Hawkwind Collector’s Resource HAWKWIND PRESS CUTTINGS SHORT ARTICLES AND NEWS STORIES 1969-1975 Festival's Official Buskers / Unknown Source / June 1969 Any Questions / Melody Maker / 12 September 1970 Music More Important Than Money / NME / 16 January 1971 Drummer Strips at Lincoln Show / Lincolnshire Chronicle / 2 March 1971 Drummer's Stage Strip - The Bare Facts / Lincolnshire Chronicle / 5 March 1971 Concert Is A Winner - Thanks To Jo Ann / Lincolnshire Chronicle / 9 March 1971 Group Pops Up in the Nude / Yorkshire Post / 8 July 1971 Prediction '72 / Record Mirror / 8 January 1972 Any Questions? / Melody Maker / 5 February 1972 Hawkwind to split? / Melody Maker / 6 May 1972 Space in the charts for Hawkwind? / Record Mirror / 22 July 1972 Hawkwind Lift Off - Six Hour Rainbow Marathon / NME / 22 July 1972 Hawkwind at the Oval / NME / 1 September 1972 Hawkwind’s Free Rock / Disc / 2 September 1972 Hawkwind – Live Show / Sounds / 2 September 1972 Hawkwind to Meet Royals? / Melody Maker / 23 September 1972 Any Questions / Melody Maker / 21 October 1972 Hawkwind Concerts, 'Ritual' Double LP / NME / 07 April 1973 Hawkwind Party For Wembley / Sounds / 28 April 1973 Goes It Alone Upheaval / NME / 12 May 1973 Problems Resolved / NME / 19 May 1973 Oggi vi presentiamo Hawkwind / Ciao 2001 / 01 July 1973 Hawkwind's Silly show / Melody Maker / 17 November 1973 Hawkwind's Rocket Goes Astray / Sounds / 24 November 1973 Planetarium Aids Rock Band’s Debut / New York Times / 26 November 1973 Of Space Rituals & Topless Dancers / Los Angeles Free Press / 28 December 1973 The Ridiculous Roadshow Hawkwind in Chicago / NME / 26 January 1974 Timothy Leary Tribute / March 1974 / Melody Maker / 16 March 1974 Caught In Tornado Drama / NME / 13 April 1974 Capt. Lockheed Blasting Off / NME / 20 April 1974 Hawks Expand / NME / 20 April 1974 Calvert Cancels Lockheed Dates / NME / 4 May 1974 Hawks in Free Gig / New Musical Express / 27 July 1974 Fed Up Hawkwind Return For Rest / Record Mirror / 5 October 1974 Spock It To Me! / Let It Rock / 1 December 1974 Front Page Story: Back to Leeds / Melody Maker / 18 January 1975 www.plasticfragment.com – The Hawkwind Collector’s Resource www.plasticfragment.com – The Hawkwind Collector’s Resource Festival's Official Buskers Unknown Source – June 1969 London buskers Meg Aitken and Dave Brock are on the official programme of the City of London Festival, which will run from July 4 to 17. It will present an extremely varied gathering of talent, including the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin's festival Orchestra, a number of ensembles and the Royal Shakespeare Company. There is to be music hall in the cellars of Whitbreads, the only brewery within the City boundaries, poetry, pop music and a "Prom in the Piaza" in Paternoster Square. Student painters will show their work in an open-air exhibition. A word of warning to those planning to visit Whitbreads' 200-year-old cellars for the music hall. A poster on the wall advertising "London Stout - 2s 6d doz. bottles" dates back to about 1904. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Any questions" Melody Maker - 12 September 1970 WHEN I saw Hawkwind at the Lyceum on August 2, they had an instrument which looked like a little table on legs. It produced some beautiful electronic sounds. What was it? - Stefan Signer, Wimbledon. What you saw was two music stands used as a table, on which stood two audio generators connected in stages to an oscillator, an echo-unit and a stereo amplifier. We assembled this apparatus ourselves, guided by our electronics genius, Dikmik. It is a cheap version of the Moog Synthesizer and we call it the Hawkwindiser! The effects we get out of it are somewhat mind- bending. They can make people really ill and even send them into a trance. The sounds are not necessarily audible, as the frequencies are so high pitched that they are beyond the human ear. But they can be sensed or felt. The whole thing works a bit like a voo-doo. But our aim is to produce sounds which will create exactly the opposite effect and make people feel happy and really good. - Guitarist-vocalist DAVE BROCK, Hawkwind. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Music More Important Than Money NME - 16 January 1971 With one LP to their credit and a steadily increasing number of bookings each week, Hawkwind would seem to be doing quite well. But their general disregard for any kind of financial reward and a determination to avoid the hustling of the record industry means that they are often short of cash. It is on these occasions that the singer, guitarist and composer Dave Brock is likely to be found busking in London's Portobello Road market. But this breadline existence has not yet deflated their ideals, or changed the group's direction. They play a continuous form of electronic music while socially they follow a lifestyle similar to America's Grateful dead or the German community band Amon Duul. Wherever they play they bring along a large number of friends, charge minimal prices for gigs and have probably played for free more times than any group in Britain. www.plasticfragment.com – The Hawkwind Collector’s Resource www.plasticfragment.com – The Hawkwind Collector’s Resource Recent ventures have included almost spontaneous sets in the camping sites at the Isle Of Wight and Bath Festivals last year. Basically, they want to give their audience something extra, adding new dimensions to live performances. "We've played with so many groups who get payed phenomenal amounts of money but just play six numbers and go home, that we want to try and give the audiences something more", explained easy-going Dave Brock. "If we had a little more money, I would like to turn the whole act into a kind of circus with a complete light show where we could give things away, papers and fruit and things like that. For instance, if a monotonous sound like a chanting goes on long enough, it can really dull people's minds. It's all very interesting." "Originally we just wanted to freak people out, but now we're just interested in sound. Very few people seem to realise what can be done. As it is, we try to create an environment where people can lose their inhibitions. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We also want to keep clear of the music business as much as possible. We want to just play for the people. It's like a ship that has to steer 'round rocks, we have to steer around the Industry. But I'd like the group to go on Top Of The Pops. I mean, it's so ridiculous, we could just go on and turn it into a party. Get everybody to join in and just never stop. They'd never be able to get us off." James Johnson - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Drummer Strips at Lincoln Show Lincolnshire Chronicle - 2 March 1971 Pop group drummer, Terry Ollis, stripped off on stage at Lincoln Theatre Royal last night, but remained discreetly hidden behind his large drum kit. Ollis was the driving force behind Hawkwind, the top group in a concert which virtually filled the stalls and circle of the theatre. With sweat pouring off him, Ollis stripped to the waist early in the group's set, and soon afterwards took off his trousers. But no-one in the audience seemed offended by the strip. A fuller report of the concert will appear in next week's "Poppin' Around". - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Drummer's Stage Strip - The Bare Facts Lincolnshire Chronicle - 5 March 1971 A pop group drummer was supposed to have stripped naked on stage on Monday. The incident came during a pop show when the drummer, Terry Ollis of Hawkwind, threw discretion to the wind. But he did remain hidden from most of the audience - behind his drum kit. After the show, promoter Jim Kirbyshaw said, "He's absolutely no dress sense". Theatre administrator Bryan Newton said “We will have to try and be a bit more careful in the future. I will be talking to the promoter about future shows, to make sure we have an idea about what a group is going to do." But the bare facts are, as theatre officials discovered later, that drummer Ollis had been wearing skin-tight, flesh-coloured briefs! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - www.plasticfragment.com – The Hawkwind Collector’s Resource www.plasticfragment.com – The Hawkwind Collector’s Resource Concert Is A Winner - Thanks To Jo Ann Lincolnshire Chronicle - 9 March 1971 Naked drummer Terry Ollis stole so much of the attention at last week's Theatre Royal gig that many people forget it was the best yet. The change from the "two group formula" made all difference, and the "surprise guests" were far better than one could have hope for, writes Steve Goodwin. It was just as well, since John Peel, who had, I imagine, been responsible for drawing a large part of the crowd, failed to materialize. Newark group, Cherokee Smith opened the proceedings but fell rather flat. However, Dave Turner, a sort of Monty Python of the folk song kept the audience laughing for forty minutes and put the show back on its feet. Another surprise came after the interval when Jo Ann Kelly took the stage for a better set, I think, than Hawkwind's. A real professional, her guitar playing was immaculate and her voice must be the only British female one which does justice to the blues. Hawkwind's turn came with very few of the audience really knowing what to expect. The lights went off the stage and a dazzling strobe began flashing on the audience. Dave Brock on guitar and vocals, Nick Turner on sax, vocals and flute, Dave Anderson on bass, and Ollis on drums are all competent musicians, but it was Ollis who made the big impression.