Hawkwind

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Although Hawkwind had no more than a couple of Peel sessions, the DJ had relatively close ties with in the band in its earliest days. Late in August 1969, the DJ saw an ensemble then called Group X at All Saints Hall, Notting Hill (see Gigography 1969).

According to the Hawkwind page on Wikipedia: Gatecrashing a local talent night at the All Saints Hall, Notting Hill, they were so untogether as to not even have a name, plumping for "Group X" at the last minute, nor any songs, choosing to play an extended 20-minute jam on The Byrds "Eight Miles High". BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel was in the audience and was impressed enough to tell event organiser, Douglas Smith, to keep an eye on them. Smith signed them up and got them a deal with Liberty Records on the back of a deal he was setting up for Cochise.

Smith later recalled: "John Peel walked out of the hall, looked at me, and went 'Sign them. Big band.' I walked on, didn't think any more about it, then two months later decided to get involved. Went round to see Peel, dinky toy collection out, playing with it on the floor, and I said 'We got the name John, we got the name. Hawkwind Zoo.' He looked at me: 'Hawkwind Zoo? No. Get rid of the zoo.' And that's how that happened."

Festive Fifty Entries
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Sessions

 * Two sessions. Commercial releases (details from the Starfarer site): from #1, "Hurry on Sundown" on The Text of Festival (Illuminated, JAMS 29, Jul-1983), "Some of That Stuff" (aka "Came Home") on Hawkwind Anthology Volume 3 (Samurai, SAMR040, Jun-1986); from #2 "Inwards Out" (aka "We Do It") on The Text of Festival.

1. Recorded 1970-08-18. First broadcast 19 September 1970. Repeated 12 December 1970
 * Hurry on Sundown / Seeing It As You Really Are / Some of That Stuff

2. Recorded: 1971-04-19. First broadcast: 24 April 1971. Repeated: ?
 * Inwards Out / You Know You're Only Dreaming / You Shouldn't Do That"

Live
(Information from the Starfarer site)


 * 15 November 1970 (John Peel's Sunday Concert). Recorded: 1970-11-05, Paris Theatre, London

Set list included:
 * 1) Paranoia
 * 2) Seeing It As You Really Are


 * Both tracks released on The Text of Festival.
 * The band were temporarily banned from BBC sessions after a microphone was stolen at this appearance.

Other Shows Played
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