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Hawkfest is three-day outdoor weekend festival organised and centered on Hawkwind. The event is open only to members of their fanclub and is limited to around 1000 attendees.

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The stated intention is to recreate the atmosphere of festivals of old, as an alternative to the currently heavily commercialised events, and to make the whole event as family-friendly as possible with side attractions and workshops. Hawkfest was proposed by Dave Brock as a "realist" alternative to the free festival culture of the 1960s. [1]

2002

Schedule

Hawkwind set

CD release

CD1
  1. Hawkwind - "Night Of The Hawks"
  2. Proteus - "Evenstar" / "Cloud City"
  3. Tribe of Cro - "I Have No Life"
  4. Spacehead - "Fire Dragons"
  5. Astralasia - "Uncle Sam's On Mars"
  6. Jez Huggett's Band of Gold - "Kansas City Blues"
CD2
  1. Bruise - "Miss Bigfish"
  2. Connecting Routes - "Intro"
  3. Mr Quimby's Beard - "Mystery"
  4. Bedouin - "LSD"
  5. Litmus - "Invader"
  6. Huw Lloyd Langton's Broken Bits Band - "Cardboard City"
  7. The One Eyed Bishops - "Hurry On Sundown"

2003

Schedule

Hawkwind set

2007

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References

  1. Egan, Vincent (October 2007). "The Saga of Hawkwind. By Carol Clerk. Omnibus Press, 2006. 578 pp. paperback ISBN 1-84449-832-8". Popular Music. 26 (3): 534–535. doi:10.1017/S0261143007003480. ISSN   1474-0095.