The Text of Festival

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The Text of Festival
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Compilation album by
Released16 September 1983 [1]
RecordedBBC Sessions 1970-71; Colchester Technical College, 19-Feb-1971
Genre Space rock
Label Illuminated Records
Hawkwind chronology
Hawkwind, Friends and Relations
(1982)
The Text of Festival
(1983)
Zones
(1983)
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The 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.

Contents

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 inferior-quality off-air recordings of the broadcast. The recordings have also appeared on The Weird Tapes , Hawkwind, Friends and Relations and Hawkwind Anthology .

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Master of the Universe" (Nik Turner, Dave Brock) 6:00
  2. "You Know You're Only Dreaming" (Brock) 4:15
  3. "You Shouldn't Do That" (Turner, Brock) 5:52
  4. "Hurry on Sundown" (Brock) 6:20

Side 2

  1. "Paranoia" (Hawkwind)
    "Seeing It As You Really Are" (Hawkwind) 11:50
  2. "We Do It" (Hawkwind) 13:45

Side 3

  1. "You Shouldn't Do That" (Hawkwind) 21:35 [listed as "Sound, Shouldn't, Improvise"]

Side 4

  1. "The Reason Is?" (Hawkwind) 11:35
    "Be Yourself" (Hawkwind) 5:51 [listed as "Improvise, Compromise, Reprise"]

Personnel

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Release history

DateTitleFormatRegionLabel, CatalogueNote
Jul/1983The Text of Festival2x12"vinylUKIlluminated Records, JAMS29
Jul/1985In the BeginningCDUKDemi Monde, DM005sides 1 and 2
Nov/1988The Text of Festival2x12"vinylUK, GermanyThunderbolt THBL 2.068
Dec/1988The Text of FestivalCDUKThunderbolt CDTB 2.068sides 1-3
Jul/1992Masters of the UniverseCDUK, USA, GermanyThunderbolt, CDTB105sides 1 and 2
1993The Text of FestivalCDUKThunderbolt CDTB 068sides 1-3
1996Masters of the UniverseCD digipakFranceSpalax, SPALAXCD14972sides 1 and 2
Jan/1996Masters of the UniverseCDUSAMagnum America, MACD028sides 1 and 2
Feb/1998Welcome to the FutureCD1 of 4UKDressed to Kill, CLP0220-2sides 1 and 2
Feb/1998Welcome to the FutureCD4 of 4UKDressed to Kill, CLP0220-2sides 1-3
Mar/1999The Entire and Infinite Universe of HawkwindCD1 of 4UKDressed to Kill, REDTK98sides 1 and 2
Mar/1999The Entire and Infinite Universe of HawkwindCD4 of 4UKDressed to Kill, REDTK98sides 1-3
Aug/1999Live 1970 1972CDUKPegasus, PEGCD197sides 1-3
Sep/1999Year 2000: Codename HawkwindCD2 of 2UKNew Millennium Communications, PILOT33sides 1 and 2
2000Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin: Live At the Empire Pool 1976CD2 of 2GermanyFalconsides 1 and 2, omits "Master of the Universe"
Oct/2002Cosmic OverdriveCD2 of 2UKNew Millennium Communications, PILOT 146sides 1 and 2
Mar/2005Codename HawkwindCDUKNeptune Records, TUNECD102sides 1 and 2

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