Post by snakesandladders on Jan 2, 2010 10:29:30 GMT -5
Couldn't have come with a better vid and news for the new decade:)
entertainment.stv.tv/music/146359-dave-brock-outlines-hawkwind-new-album-plans/#comment-11161
Hawkwind guitarist Dave Brock has spoken to STV news about the band's plans for 2010, that sees them completing the recording of a new album and undertaking an extensive tour that promises to be an ambitious spectacle.
Speaking to STV's John Kilbride at the O2 ABC venue in Glasgow, the underground rock legend, who is the only founding member still in the band, outlined their plans for the forthcoming months.
"What we've got is this idea about 2012 - unfortunately there's now a film called 2012, -and you know what's supposedly going to happen then, supposedly, because it's the end of the Mayan calendar. we had this idea because it is the year of the crystals because the crystal skulls are supposed to give off these weird vibrations and you read all this mythology so we thought that perhaps we should do an album.
"So we started researching and found that there are loads of people doing the same thing, so we called ours The Crystal Entity.
"We read a lot of stuff around it which all fits in so we'll probably do a stage show, we've got a lot of really good ideas for the stage show so it should be interesting.
"We've done maybe about half the album already so after Christmas we'll get it finished off by the end of January...so hopefully!
He explained that the 40th anniversary tour has allowed them the opportunity to try out some of these new ideas.
He said: "We've got a lot of weird imagery and it's like watching a film, we've got a couple of guys working for us doing very good graphics so you can watch it and we are making the same sounds, so you can be watching the film and the storyline and we're playing it. A couple of very good dancers with fantastic costumes, so it's interesting
"We've got a lot of weird ideas and they'll all come together next year."
A number of key Hawkwind albums have recently been re-issued with a great deal of previously unreleased material. Dave explained: "I had a huge amount of tapes, all the two inch master Ampex tapes.
"They sent a car round to pick up all these tapes, but didn't realise how much there was so they had to send a van, there was stacks and stacks, so they took them all away and put them on the machine and found loads of unreleased stuff, so these have been coming out on special issues, so if you buy Quark and the Hawklords there are lots of outtakes."
He also took time to look back on the band's 40 year career which they celebrated this year with special events and a major tour. He joked: "Just another year you know!
"We did Porchester Hall, played two nights there and made it a happening, with a lights show, and it was a very nice experience.
He added: "A lot of the fans actually did a tour of Notting Hill Gate, all the places we used to hang out, the Mountain Grill cafe, the Flamingo, all these little places, the pubs we used to hang out at and it was quite nice to go back."
