The Text of Festival

Infobox Album
Name = The Text of Festival
Type = compilation
Artist = Hawkwind


Released = 1983
Recorded = BBC Sessions 1970-71; Colchester Technical College, 19-Feb-1971
Genre = Space Rock
Length =
Label = Illuminated Records
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Hawkwind, Friends and Relations"
(1982-4)
This album = "The Text of Festival"
(1983)
Next album = "Zones"
(1983)

"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.

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 recordings of the broadcast and the quality leaves a lot to desired. These same low quality recordings have also appeared on "The Weird Tapes Volumes 1-8", "Hawkwind, Friends and Relations" and "Hawkwind Anthology".

Track listing

;Disc 1
#"Master Of The Universe" (Turner/Brock) – 6:00
#"You Know You're Only Dreaming" (Brock) – 4:15
#"You Shouldn't Do That" (Turner/Brock) – 5:52
#"Hurry on Sundown" (Brock) – 6:20
#"Paranoia" (Hawkwind)
"Seeing It As You Really Are" (Hawkwind) – 11:50
#"We Do It" (Hawkwind) – 13:45;Disc 2
#"You Shouldn't Do That" (Hawkwind) – 21:35 [listed as "Sound, Shouldn't, Improvise"]
#"The Reason Is?" (Hawkwind) – 11:35
"Be Yourself" (Hawkwind) – 5:51 [listed as "Improvise, Compromise, Reprise"]

Personnel

*Dave Brock - guitar, vocals
*Nik Turner - saxophone, flute, vocals
*Huw Lloyd-Langton - guitar (track 4)
*Thomas Crimble - bass guitar (tracks 4-5 and disc 2)
*Dave Anderson - bass guitar (tracks 1-3,6)
*Dik Mik Davies - Synthesizer
*Terry Ollis - drums

Notes

*"Come Home" is listed on the album following "We Do It", but has never been included on any of the releases of this album. It does appear on the "Hawkwind Anthology" compilation set.
*"The Reason Is?" and "Be Yourself" have never be issued on any of the CD versions.
*Later releases erroneously claim that this recording is from the Cambridge Corn Exchange. There is a recording in existence from "The Six Hour Technicolor Dream" featuring Hawkwind, Pink Fairies and Syd Barrett at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on 27-Jan-1972, but so far it is unreleased — see [http://www.nsblog.co.uk/FraKcman/131/ FraKcman's Blog] .;Sources
*Track 4: Maida Vale, 18-Aug-1970; Broadcast: Top Gear, 19-Sep-1970. Tracks originally broadcast from this session: "Hurry on Sundown", "Seeing It As You Really Are" and "Some of That Stuff" [aka "Come Home"] cite book |last=Garner |first=Ken |title=In Session Tonight: The Complete Radio 1 Recordings |publisher=BBC (c) 1993|id=ISBN 0563364521 |pages= ]
*Track 5: Paris Cinema, London, 5-Nov-1970; Broadcast: John Peel Sunday Concert, 15-Nov-1970
*Track 6: Playhouse, London, 19-Apr-1971; Broadcast: Top Gear, 24-Apr-1971 (with Quiver, Gnidrolog); Tracks originally broadcast from this session: "Inwards Out" [aka "We Do It"] , "You Know You're Only Dreaming" and "You Shouldn't Do That"
*Track 1-3: Maida Vale, London, 19-May-1971; Broadcast: Sounds of the Seventies, 27-May-1971 (with Wishbone Ash) & 24-Jun-1971 (with Cochise)
*Disc 2: Recorded at Colchester Technical College, 19-Feb-1971 (with Uriah Heep).;Credits
*Cover by John Coulthart
*The album title is a reference to a book by Mick Farren

Release History

*1983 - Illuminated Records, JAMS29, 2x12"
*see [http://www.starfarer.net/bringme.html starfarer] for full catalogue of releases, re-releases, retitles etc.

References