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Who doesn't enjoy donning a baseball cap, turning it around backwards and raging
What was that band that got famous for doing some kind of nu-metal rap cover of some rhcp song. "You're my butterfly" etc something something. Saw the singer on celebrity (!) rehab maybe 10 years ago. They were peak limp bizkit era crap to me.
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From South London no less
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Not sure where else to post this, but a pal has a Hawkwind book out shortly, if there are any fans on here: http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/hawkwind-days-of-the-underground/
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New Mgła album released yesterday - superb drumming as ever:
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Looks interesting, an old W11 friend of mine just posted on FB about their first show on Portobello fifty years ago...
The 50th anniversary of the start of Hawkwind and the death of Hendrix in Ladbroke Grove preview. ‘The chick began to run after the black truck as it started up and rolled a little way before it had to stop on the red light at the Ladbroke Grove intersection. “Wait”, she shouted. “Jimi!” But the camper was moving before she could reach it. She saw it heading north towards Kilburn. She wiped the clammy sweat from her face. She must be freaking. She hoped when she got back to the basement flat that there wouldn’t really be a dead guy there. She didn’t need it.’ Michael Moorcock 'A Dead Singer' (in memory, among others, of Smiling Mike and John the Bog) 'Moorcock’s Book of Martyrs' 1974.
After his death at the Samarkand Hotel, Lansdowne Crescent on Ladbroke Grove in 1970, Jimi Hendrix was resurrected by the Hawkwind-associate sci-fantasy author Michael Moorcock, or his ghost haunts the street hippies of the Grove underground scene in the 1974 short story 'A Dead Singer' in 'Moorcock’s Book of Martyrs'. Shaky Mo, the Deep Fix roadie from his Jerry Cornelius time travel novels, had spent too long in Finch’s, the Duke of Wellington at 179 Portobello Road, suffering from severe acid-rock withdrawal symptoms, and become Hendrix’s roadie on the astral plane. On a final Portobello stop-off, after visiting the Mountain Grill cafe at 275, Mo scores some Mandies (Mandrax) on Lancaster Road and gets into a fight in Finch’s, before his last gig DJing at an astral-rock party in an Oxford Gardens basement pad:
“Hi”, said the newcomer. “I’m looking for Shaky Mo. We ought to be going.” The black man stepped across the others and knelt beside Mo, feeling his heart, taking his pulse. The chick stared stupidly at him. “Is he alright?” “He’s ODed”, the newcomer said quietly, “he’s gone, d’you want to get a doctor or something, honey?” “Oh, Jesus”, she said. The black man got up and walked to the door. “Hey”, she said, “you look just like Jimi Hendrix, you know that?” “Sure.” “You can’t be - you’re not are you? I mean, Jimi’s dead.” Jimi shook his head and smiled his old smile. “Shit, lady. They can’t kill Jimi”, he laughed as he left.’ In Michael Moorcock’s 1980 novelisation of the Sex Pistols film 'The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle', Jimi, Marc Bolan and Sid Vicious follow events from the celestial ‘Cafe Hendrix’.
‘In this sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if at every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer; and the man for whom he looked was sooner or later to murder him and hold the priesthood in his stead. Such was the rule of the sanctuary.’ JG Frazer 'The Golden Bough' 1890.
Hawkwind 50 Grove tribute from Michael Moorcock's New Worlds and Frendz in North Kensington. When Nick Kent arrived at Frendz towards the end, he told Zigzag he was made music editor because he “actually put pen to paper” and didn’t just go there to score drugs: “It was dreadful. Everything was at a very low ebb, everyone was just free-loading manically. Hawkwind, for some Godforsaken reason, were subsidising it, no one was doing any work, and I asked if I could write for them… everyone was into dope very heavily; just getting stupefied.”
However, Frendz, under the editorship of the Pink Fairies tour manager Jon Trux, received a rave review in Michael Moorcock’s King of the City semi-fiction memoir. Moorcock’s photographer-guitarist character ‘Dennis Dover’ recalls 305 Portobello Road in the early 70s, when ‘the market activities seemed to spill through the doorways and carry on in the passages and stairwells’, and the picture editor lived on a ledge above the stairs. As well as promoting the Fairies, Hawkwind, Brinsley Schwarz, Mighty Baby, Chilli Willi and the Pretty Things, Frendz provided them with rehearsal space in the 305 basement. After the Frendz market went up in smoke, the office moved from 305 to New Worlds at 307.
The New Worlds contributor JG Ballard also featured the area in his sci-fi novels; the Westway in Crash and Concrete Island and Trellick Tower in High Rise, which influenced the Hawkwind track featuring the line ‘It’s a human zoo, a suicide mission.’ Ballard’s urban myths of the near future also influenced punk rock and post-punk acts such as the Clash and Joy Division. At the time of Ballard’s Concrete Island story, John Trux’s Greasy Truckers Promotions presented a series of ‘Magic Roundabout’ free gigs, under the Westway roundabout, by Ace, Kevin Ayers, Burlesque, Camel, Chilli Willi, Keith Christmas, Clancy, Henry Cow, Fat City, the Global Village Trucking Company, Gong, Skin Alley, Sniff and the Tears, and Spyra Gyra.
Michael Moorcock’s King of the City novel contains a report of a Saturday afternoon free gig under the flyover featuring Brinsley Schwarz with Nick Lowe and Martin Stone. Moorcock’s ‘Dennis Dover’ character finds amphetamine rock nirvana with his Basing Street studios session group, playing to an audience of ‘Swedish flower children, American Yippies’ and ‘French ’ippies.’ After the gig he goes to the ‘Princess Louise’ pub on Portobello Road, which must be the Princess Alexandra, now the Gold.
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