Joe Banks

@JoeBanksWriter

Music writer. 'Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground' is out now - voted one of the top ten music books of 2020 by MOJO, Uncut, Prog, and Shindig!

London, UK
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    24 Oct 2020

    Whoa, this is an astonishing review of Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground , many thanks to for his insightful words - "they offered not just a counter-culture, but a counter-reality to a paranoid and profoundly disillusioned decade"

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    Jan 23

    I keep watching those first few seconds and marvelling at how he does it. It's a beautiful piece of physical comedy in which Emu seems 100% real.

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    You know what we need right now? Emu pulling Rod Hull into a freezer. No comedy, of any form, has ever, or will ever, top the unadulterated genius of these first few seconds. Humans will never get near this again.
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  3. 10 hours ago

    Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground has been getting some great ratings on Amazon, but not many reviews - so I just wanted to highlight this absolute humdinger from Stephen Andrews aka Reaper ;-) If anybody else wants to write a review, please feel free!

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Here's the same ad in a more viewable format!

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  5. 15 hours ago

    Good morning from , the Dark Princes Of Downer Rock... (Melody Maker, 13 November 1971)

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  6. Jan 24

    Anybody after a reasonably priced copy of the Days Of The Underground special edition, go here:

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  7. Jan 24

    This is my favourite track from Bob Calvert's Freq, with a great opening lyric: "There's home computers now that can keep an eye on you / They talk with Swedish accents and tell you what to do" Prescient, apart from the Swedish bit ;-)

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  8. Jan 24

    I remember getting this when it came out, and being rather confused - I knew Calvert had been Hawkwind's singer, but didn't understand at the time how he had got here (and Kerrang's review was a good deal less generous!). It is of course a visionary work...

    ROBERT CALVERT SOUNDS NOV 1984
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  9. Jan 24

    It was Adam Curtis's blog that put me onto this tremendous Hells Angels documentary from 1973 - see if you can spot the Hawkwind reference at 5.46 (you can watch more Hawkwind-related docs at )

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  10. Jan 24

    Excellent Adam Curtis pisstake...

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    Jan 24

    My friend Adam Curtis has made this trail for his imminent new series 'Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World.' The trail is exclusive to this tweet and will exist nowhere else! I love the series and its wild range of stories.

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  12. Jan 23

    David Bowie advertises the instrument of the future - the stylophone! Melody Maker, Oct 69

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    Jan 23

    This is a fantastic read for any ⁦⁩ fan. I’ve been a fan since ‘72 and there’s so much I’m enjoying learning about this original band. Thanks due to ⁦⁩ for a riveting,compelling book. Naturally listening to the mighty Hawks.😎👍🏻

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  14. Jan 22

    "Lots of room" ;-) Hawkwind and VDGG played together a lot in the 70s...

    VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR & HAWKWIND MELODY MAKER NOV 1971
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    Jan 21

    HAWKWIND - LIVE HYDRASPACE WATFORD MELODY MAKER APRIL 1971

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  16. Jan 21

    Here's what Melody Maker had to say about the first LP, 7 Nov 1970 (just under their review of Tony Blackburn's debut)...

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  17. Jan 21

    Just came across this in an Oct 69 copy of NME - "as the fiery flood ignites the funeral pyre of Earth" - apocalyptic space rock before Hawkwind! ;-) Great ad (and yes, that's the young Phil Collins at the bottom), though the album itself is somewhat underwhelming...

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  18. Jan 21

    I'm just going to leave this here... even space rocking masters of the universe had to eat ;-) (View this and hundreds more at the web's greatest collection of Hawkwind live ads! )

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    Jan 9

    A petition in support of continued visa-free EU tours for musicians and artists is approaching a quarter of a million signatures. Please consider signing if you haven't already →

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  20. Jan 20

    Talking of Germany, do you like gawping at vintage rock posters from the 70s and lamenting "if only..."? If so, then you might want to spend some time here: Hawkwind are of course featured a few times, see if you can spot them all...

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  21. Jan 20

    Hawkwind had a significant fanbase in (West) Germany from early on. Here's the readers' poll for 1970 from German magazine Sounds, with Hawkwind's debut winning best LP from a new group, and the band itself coming 2nd in best new group...

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