huzzah! end of the month! horsemouth has made it!
as horsemouth often relates it was the bbc tv series time out of mind (17th september 1979) that introduced him to all this. in the middle of the documentary about michael moorcock there was a clip of hawkwind playing silver machine (and at that point, with the swooshing of synthesizers, horsemouth saw the light).
interestingly enough the IMDB entry for it claims that it features one jerry cornelius as himself.
horsemouth first saw hawkwind play sophia gardens in cardiff 9th december 1979 (his first gig). he then went back to caerphilly to see his old friends and to see the levitation tour 8th november 1980.
horsemouth saw michael moorcock open for hawkwind (with a poem and then coded languages) later than the sonic attack tour (winter 1981) so probably winter 82.
he saw hawkwind on the sonic attack tour and on the choose your masques tour (colston hall 31st october 1982). broadly he parts company with them on the chronicle of the black sword tour 1985.
bob calvert horsemouth saw at theatre space sometime in the early 80ies (80 possibly) and then again at the hammersmith clarendon (14th november 1986). horsemouth had made his way over there on his own (because he was a hawkwind obsessive) at some point he remembers seeing all the crusties from hackney arrive at the tube station.
he saw nik turner's inner city unit a couple of times round about those times. once with here and now at the half moon herne hill (1983 he guesses). he saw the lloyd-langton group a couple of times (once up at dingwalls).
other than that horsemouth saw moorcock once this century at the new british library as part of a panel with john clute, brian aldiss and norman spinrad. he felt a little sorry for spinrad (who was clearly the 'new boy' in these august circles). by now we are moving into nostalgia.
in 2013 he went with sean to watch the warrior on the edge of time tour.
it was that point of contact between science fiction, rock music and the counter-culture. to horsemouth it looked like a way out. punk (and the sex pistols had played caerphilly in 1976) had been and gone (and was something for bigger kids). there was the mod revival and two tone. there was early electro-pop and germans with synthesizers (tangerine dream, kraftwerk). it was in many ways a golden age.
today horsemouth is off to hereford. he will hunt out second hand books while leaving his mum to deal with the bank etc. relatives are coming over friday. his brother is coming up saturday.
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