Hawkbinge

Hawkbinge returns with 105 minutes on Warrior On The Edge Of Time. Another hugely extended episode is required to unpack this milestone album and everything that surrounds it.  Andy & Matt get into not only the music, but also Michael Moorcock and The Eternal Champion books upon which it is based, yet another signature piece of cover art, the Steven Wilson remastered edition and accompanying boxset, seeing the Warrior Tour live in Brighton in 2013 and a Motorhead death-match.

Also, as ever, the guys go thru the music of 1975 – the year of Bohemian Rhapsody – as well as responding to some listener messages and selecting choice tracks from other records they’ve been spinning since the last episode that will go into volume 2 of the Hawkbinge Sessions playlist.
 
 Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify

Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify.
 
As ever, many thanks for all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments - all very much appreciated!  If you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]
 
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Hawkbinge is back!! After something of an unintended hiatus, Andy & Matt return with a bumper episode, really the triple-album-box-set of episodes, coming in at around 90 minutes.
In it, they arrive at  Hall of the Mountain Grill - Andy's first ever Hawkwind album.

In addition to Matt's hot-take and the usual track-by-track rundown, Matt discusses his process for listening to all of these Hawkwind albums, Andy talks about his experience of hearing the Hawks for the very first time and there are the turntable picks from other albums they've been listening to recently, a look at the the music of 1974, and the lads proudly announce that Hawkbinge has joined the Deep Dive Podcast Network - a non-commercial little community of passionate podcasters who love album stories and band histories.

Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify

Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify.

As ever, many thanks for all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments - all very much appreciated!  If you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]

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Hawkbinge returns with the Space Ritual bonus episode!  Matt & Andy talk about the place that live albums play in their respective musical backgrounds before taking a dive deep into this landmark album from Hawkwind, compare live & studio versions of tracks such as "Seven by Seven" and "Time We Left This World Today" and get stuck into new ones such as "Born To Go" and the legendary "Sonic Attack".  There's also a look at the Barney Bubbles masterpiece that is the Space Ritual cover.  All this, plus the joy of Brian Blessed, a nod to those who have been in touch, and the final result of the "Save The Black Heart" Crowdfunder campaign...

No new tracks for the Hawkbinge playlists this time, given that this is a bonus podcast not featuring a studio album, but the two playlists can be found here:

Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify

Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify.

This is the last of the planned bonus episodes, Hawkbinge will return with Hall of the Mountain Grill and it will be studio albums all the way to the present day from here on in.

As ever, many thanks for all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments - all very much appreciated!  Some of these are called out in the episode.  If you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]
Links to the videos and songs referred to in this episode will be posted through those channels.

Finally, Hawkbinge returns to tackle Hawkwind's third album. Andy & Matt get deep into this particular monster, Matt tries to pick a favourite track and, as usual, they take a look at what else was released that same year, (a pretty eclectic one), and go over the state of the band in the wake of the success of Silver Machine. 

As usual, they also chat about what else has been on their turntables recently, which leads to the release of the first Hawkbinge Sessions playlist on Spotify, featuring all of the artists mentioned up to now plus selected Hawkwind tracks from the albums covered so far on the pod. In addition, the Master playlist, comprised of Matt's featured track from each Hawkwind album is also now available, and will grow with each new episode.

Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify

Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify.

Lastly, many thanks for all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments - all very much appreciated!  Many of these are called out in the episode.  If you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]

Our path on the Hawkbinge journey generally leads us through all of Hawkwind's vast array studio albums.  However, it happens to be the case that the biggest (and only) Hawkwind hit and their most well-known song by far is a non-album single, the legendary Silver Machine.  It would seem like a dereliction of duty for us to skip over this landmark, heralding, as it does, the arrival on one Lemmy Kilmister and a spot on BBC's Top Of The Pops.  So here is a bonus podcast where Matt will give us his reaction to this iconic track after hearing it for the first time, provided he can work out which version of it he is supposed to be listening to...

In addition to Matt's hot-take on SIlver Machine, there is the singles chart for August 13th 1972 and Matt's take on the B-side, Seven By Seven.

Many thanks to those who have commented on our channels and reviewed/rated the podcast - we recorded this bonus episode last week, but will be shouting out to you in the next episode.

Catch us, correct us and share your views on Silver Machine at @Hawkbinge on Twitter & Insta, email [email protected]

It took a little longer than anticipated but Hawkbinge is back with a bumper second episode.  Hear Andy and Matt unpack everything that comes with Hawkwind's breakout second album - the music, the packaging and the Log Book that accompanied the original vinyl.  Also, a look at 1971 and its rather stellar list of album releases and a heartfelt plea to help The Black Heart music venue in Camden.

Save The Black Heart here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/savetheblackheart

And if you don't have the Log Book, we found a PDF of it and put it up for your reading pleasure: https://tinyurl.com/3d284dsl

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Matt's introduction to Hawkwind - will he overcome his confusion?  Will he like "Hurry On Sundown"?  How will he cope with "The Reason Is?" and "Paranoia"?  All this, plus we catch up on what else we've been listening to, look at the music scene of 1970 and chat about where the Hawkwind concept seems to be headed.  Catch us, correct us and share your views of Hawkwind's first album @Hawkbinge on Twitter & Insta, email [email protected]

Andy & Matt introduce HawkBinge, their journey through every Hawkwind album from 1970 to the present day.  While Andy has been into Hawkwind for many many years and knows all the albums very well, Matt has never heard any of them and so will be hearing all this music for the first time each episode.  In this introduction, Andy and Matt talk about music history they share, the perspective they'll bring to this journey and some of the things we can expect to see along the way.