Text Of Festival (Hawkwind album)

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Text Of Festival

Compilation album by Hawkwind
Released	1983
Recorded	BBC Sessions 1970-71; Colchester Technical College, 19-Feb-1971
Genre	Space Rock
Label	Illuminated Records
Hawkwind, Friends And Relations (1982-4)	Text Of Festival (1983)	Zones (1983)

Text Of Festival is an archive album by Hawkwind consisting of BBC sessions and live performances between 1970 and 1971. It was originally released in 1983 after the band had exited their Active Records contract, and has continuously been repackaged and retitled ever since.

The copyright of the recordings on the first disc is owned by the BBC who were not approached for permission for their commercial use, so the legality of this album is questionable. The source tapes used are not from the BBC, but recordings of the broadcast and the quality leaves a lot to desired. These same low quality recordings have also appeared on The Weird Tapes Volumes 1-8, Hawkwind, Friends And Relations and Hawkwind Anthology.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Notes
4 Release History

[edit] Track listing

Disc 1

"Master Of The Universe" (Turner/Brock) – 6:00
"You Know You're Only Dreaming" (Brock) – 4:15
"You Shouldn't Do That" (Turner/Brock) – 5:52
"Hurry on Sundown" (Brock) – 6:20
"Paranoia" (Hawkwind)
"Seeing It As You Really Are" (Hawkwind) – 11:50
"We Do It" (Hawkwind) – 13:45

Disc 2

"You Shouldn't Do That" (Hawkwind) – 21:35 [listed as "Sound, Shouldn't, Improvise"]
"The Reason Is?" (Hawkwind) – 11:35
"Be Yourself" (Hawkwind) – 5:51 [listed as "Improvise, Compromise, Reprise"]

[edit] Personnel

Dave Brock - guitar, vocals
Nik Turner - saxophone, flute, vocals
Huw Lloyd-Langton - guitar (track 4)
Thomas Crimble - bass guitar (tracks 4-6 and disc 2)
Dave Anderson - bass guitar (tracks 1-3,7)
Dik Mik Davies - Synthesizer
Terry Ollis - drums

[edit] Notes

"Come Home" is listed on the album, following "We Do It", and while it was recorded at the same session, it has never been included on any the releases of this album.
"The Reason Is?" and "Be Yourself" have never be issued on CD.
Later releases erroneously claim that this recording is from the Cambridge Corn Exchange. There is a recording in existence from The Six Hour Technicolor Dream featuring Hawkwind, Pink Fairies and Syd Barrett at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on 27-Jan-1972, but so far it is unreleased - see FraKcman's Blog.

Sources

Track 4: Maida Vale, 18-Aug-1970; Broadcast: Top Gear, 19-sep-1970
Track 5-6: Paris Cinema, London, 5-Nov-1970; Broadcast: John Peel Sunday Concert, 15-nov-1970
Track 7: Playhouse, London, 19-Apr-1971; Broadcast: Top Gear, 24-Apr-1971 (with Quiver, Gnidrolog)
Track 1-3: Maida Vale, London, 19-May-1971; Broadcast: Sounds Of The Seventies, 27-May-1971 (with Wisbone Ash) & 24-jun-1971 (with Cochise)
Disc 2: Recorded at Colchester Technical College, 19-Feb-1971 (with Uriah Heep).