Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Hehehehe. Are you also a Birconian? The tunnel bus?Pingu said:
Hawkwind they are actually quite...
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Oh, dear! 
I'm afraid I too must admit to a huge Hawkwind collection, including many of the rarities that even record dealers claim "only exist in the books"
I have also lost count of how many times I've seen them since the 70's but certainly more than is physically good for me & yes, sometimes they are utter shite & sometimes mere crap but brilliant with it. Must be the drugs?
They sent me a new CD just the other week but I've not had the courage to listen to it yet. Might just go & fire it up.
I'm afraid I too must admit to a huge Hawkwind collection, including many of the rarities that even record dealers claim "only exist in the books"
I have also lost count of how many times I've seen them since the 70's but certainly more than is physically good for me & yes, sometimes they are utter shite & sometimes mere crap but brilliant with it. Must be the drugs?
They sent me a new CD just the other week but I've not had the courage to listen to it yet. Might just go & fire it up.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Ah OK. I'm from Tranmere. I'd be far too scared to go to the North End
There wasn't a tunnel bus back the first time I saw 'em. We came back on the ferry. I'd taken my first ever acid (I was about 12 or 13 and the acid was *very* powerful) I remember looking out over the water, watching the stars do weird stuff and thinking about starships and wanting to revert to barbarism - which was always a concern with early Hawkwind gigs
There wasn't a tunnel bus back the first time I saw 'em. We came back on the ferry. I'd taken my first ever acid (I was about 12 or 13 and the acid was *very* powerful) I remember looking out over the water, watching the stars do weird stuff and thinking about starships and wanting to revert to barbarism - which was always a concern with early Hawkwind gigs
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Oh shit, you mean they've stopped abusing drugs?
lizzieloo said:So is it OK if I call in Dustbinfull like I nearly did originally?
No slur on the place I just like playing around with words
only if you can think of something equally pithy to call Welwyn Garden City (where I am from
). I don't think being born in Muswell Hill excuses me when we moved before I was 1. 
Louloubelle
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lyra_kitten said:
naw it wasn't the wheatsheaf, that was that little hippy pub
They played at the Queensbury hall AKA The Civic Hall
all the time
not that I saw them 4 times or anything
Louloubelle
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lizzieloo said:
careful now
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
lizzieloo said:Look at my location
I have no shame
aaahahahah
but do you remember the windsock?
Pingu
Credo
Bernie Gunther said:Ah OK. I'm from Tranmere. I'd be far too scared to go to the North End
There wasn't a tunnel bus back the first time I saw 'em. We came back on the ferry. I'd taken my first ever acid (I was about 12 or 13 and the acid was *very* powerful) I remember looking out over the water, watching the stars do weird stuff and thinking about starships and wanting to revert to barbarism - which was always a concern with early Hawkwind gigs
did you ever go to see hew lloyd at stairways?
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Nope. Stairways was mostly after my time. I used to be a regular at Mr Digbys and Erics.
Louloubelle
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lyra_kitten said:
I betcha £5 that hawkwind never played there
Lemmy might have and various members might have but they were too big as a band to fit into the wheatsheaf, all the crowd pullers went to the queensway hall
I saw John Ottway there, he could fit, not hawkwind though
I lived at the place from age 13 until my mum turned up 2 years later and told them how old I was
I managed to get away with going to the Queensway Hall for a bit longer before my mum cottoned on and saw Judas Priest and Planet Gong there too
and the the Sex Pistols
Louloubelle
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lizzieloo said:
It was at the bottom of the downs
got pulled down years ago
looks a bit crap in the photo but for dunstable it was cutting edge
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Well yes. Sex Pistols gigs. I showed up at Mr Digbys. they didn't
Supercharge played, which was OK 'cos they were pretty lively.
Next time they were scheduled it was at Erics. We showed, they didn't.
Third time, it was announced they'd play Erics. They showed up, but we fooled 'em and stayed at home.
I'm told they were incompetent and useless.
Supercharge played, which was OK 'cos they were pretty lively.
Next time they were scheduled it was at Erics. We showed, they didn't.
Third time, it was announced they'd play Erics. They showed up, but we fooled 'em and stayed at home.
I'm told they were incompetent and useless.
Louloubelle said:I betcha £5 that hawkwind never played there
Lemmy might have and various members might have but they were too big as a band to fit into the wheatsheaf, all the crowd pullers went to the queensway hall
I saw John Ottway there, he could fit, not hawkwind though
I lived at the place from age 13 until my mum turned up 2 years later and told them how old I was
I managed to get away with going to the Queensway Hall for a bit longer before my mum cottoned on and saw Judas Priest and Planet Gong there too
and the the Sex Pistols
Well I never recall going to Queensway Hall, so it must have just been odd sundry members of Hawkwind masquerading as Hawkwind.
The place was PACKED!
Louloubelle
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21st october 1976
sex pistols played queensway hall dunstable
I really didn't know what to make of them having has my mind warped by hawksind and judas priest for so long
The civic hall is now an asda supermarket
sex pistols played queensway hall dunstable
I really didn't know what to make of them having has my mind warped by hawksind and judas priest for so long
The civic hall is now an asda supermarket
Maidmarian
Stubborn Socialist
OOOh ! Saw them in Brum in the early 70s
2 tabs & set the controls to the heart of the sun !!!!!
(My hearing has never recovered though!)
2 tabs & set the controls to the heart of the sun !!!!!
(My hearing has never recovered though!)
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
lyra_kitten said:Well I never recall going to Queensway Hall, so it must have just been odd sundry members of Hawkwind masquerading as Hawkwind.
The place was PACKED!
you could be right
memory's a funny thing
I wonder if I met you?
that would be so weird but if you spent a lot fo time at the wheatsheaf it's quite likely
I bet you went to the civic hall and just don't remember or have it mixed up with somewhere else
I remember that tune freebird was on the jukebox (I hate that tune now but at the time I liked it
) at the wheatsheaf and the landlord had bells palsy so that half his face was paralysed. Funnyt the things that stick in your mind eh?
h
Louloubelle
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Maidmarian said:OOOh ! Saw them in Brum in the early 70s
2 tabs & set the controls to the heart of the sun !!!!!
(My hearing has never recovered though!)
that was pink floyd
the drugs must have been good
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I saw them once. Wolves wulfrun hall. I was wondering why everyone was leaving at the start. It was because they were shit.lizzieloo said:I saw the ozrics once and didn't realise I had, I was wondering why everyone was leaving at the end.
The drugs were good
Louloubelle said:The civic hall is now an asda supermarket
And the Cherry Tree in Welwyn Garden City (my old regular hangout) is now a Waitrose.
What is it with the rock venues of our yoof?
(it was rumoured that Led Zep played at the Cherry Tree in their early days, but that was WAY before my time).
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