Saturday, March 11, 2023

HAWKLORDS - LIVE AT KOZFEST 2022

  • hawklords: live at kozfest 2022
        (2022, cd, uk, hawklords)
Listening to some space rock is a perfect way to get the energy level up in the morning.
Here's what Discogs says about the Hawklords:

Active between 1978 and 1979, Hawklords were an offshoot from a recently disbanded Hawkwind and originally featured Hawkwind members Robert Calvert, Dave Brock and Simon King with the addition of Harvey Bainbridge, Martin Griffin and ex-Pilot keyboard player Steve Swindells.

By 1979, Steve Swindells and Robert Calvert had left, whilst Dave Brock, Simon King and Harvey Bainbridge were joined by Huw Lloyd-Langton and Tim Blake in 1979 in a newly reformed Hawkwind.

In 2009, the Hawklords re-formed without Dave Brock, consisting of ex-members Steve Swindells, Martin Griffin and Harvey Bainbridge and joined by other ex-Hawkwind members such as Nik Turner, Alan Davey, Adrian Shaw, Jerry Richards, Ron Tree, Terry Ollis and is set to also include Bridget Wishart.

Recorded at Kozfest in 2022, this album features Jerry Richards (guitar, vocals), Chris Purdon (keyboards), Mr Dibs (bass, vocals), Dave Pearce (drums) and guest Paul Woodwright (guitar).

"Live At Kozfest 2022":

Recorded live at Kozfest 2022 where Hawklords headlined the closing night of this quintessentially British festival at Axminster Showground, Devon, in the UK.
A sold-out crowd packed the Daevid Allen Kozmik Stage to thrill to a set that included the title track of the band's 2012 recording debut, We Are One, and a heartfelt version of Ghost In My Machine from the 2017 SIX album, alongside Devil In Your Head from 2018's Brave New World, plus a twisted performance of One Way Trip from 2019's Heaven's Gate, and a rocking version of fans' favourite, SR-71, from the Fusion album of 2016.
Also included in this set of blistering performances were three songs from 2021's Time album: set opener, Speed of Sound; pop classic, Turn You On; and the dark-edged poem of the metaphysical, Obscura.
And the set would not have been complete without a grinding rendition of Robert Calvert's AI-inspired masterpiece, Robot, alongside Nik Turner's space-rock classic Master of the Universe.

An excellent start of the day.
Here's a YouTube snippet:


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