United Artists
Hawkwind   In Search of Space   Doremi Falso Latido   Space Ritual

Hall of the Mountain Grill   Warrier on the Edge of Time


Charisma
astounding Sounds, Amazing Music   Quark Strangeness and Charm   Hawklords   PXR5
Bronze
Live '79   Levitation
RCA
Sonic Attack   Church of Hawkwind   Choose your Masques   Zones
Flicknife
Do Not Panic   Chronicles of the Black Sword   Out and Intake
GWR
Live Chronicles   Xenon Codex   Space Bandits   California Brainstorm
Essential
Electric Teepee   It is the Business of the Future to be dangerous
Emergency Broadcast System
The Business Trip   Alien 4   Distant Horizons  
Voiceprint
In Your Area   Spacebrock   Take me to your Leader
This Is The End Now
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HAWKLORDS: 25 YEARS ON (1978)

Things seemed to be going good, huh? Don't let appearances fool you. House departed to tour with Bowie and, at the end of yet another disenheartening North American tour, Brock threw in the towel and called it quits on Hawkwind.

After a brief respite, he and Calvert regrouped with a new rhythm section (Harvey Bainbridge on bass, Martin Griffin on drums), and a new name: The Sonic Assassins. Steve Swindells (ex-Pilot... "Oh ho ho it's magic, y'know, never believe it's not so.") then joined on keyboards and the name transmogrified yet again to: Hawklords.

The 'lords recorded 25 YEARS ON with King and House fluttering about in the periphery contributing the odd bit here and the nice bit there. This is a challenging album -- the songwriting is strong and you have to commend Brock and Calvert for trying to move in a new direction, picking up some of the power pop/punk/new wave aura of the day.

However, all that having been said, the sound is a bit on the weak side and Swindell's vaguely aspirated sounding keyboards are mixed to the fore to the detriment of the bolloxy drums and guitars to which we'd all rather be listening -- I just keep hearing Pilot's "Magic" throughout no matter how hard I try to focus on the other proceedings.

BLANGA SCORE: 5.