Tickets now available for the Atomic Sunrise footage screening... #hawkwind #bowie #genesis tickettailor.com/events/mvmedia…

Judge Smith co-founded VdGG with Peter Hammill in 1967, then left the following year to pursue a musical career that's even more uncompromising and idiosyncratic than PH's. Read all about it in this new book! Details (and David Jackson's intro) here: repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/en/product/odr…

Here's a very expensive piece of 'rock' ephemera: the poster for one of Syd Barrett's appearances with the Put Together Boogie Band, which sold on eBay for £1,750 last week... Hawkwind headlined, their set subsequently released as Leave No Star Unturned... youtube.com/watch?v=7IHN-2…

That bit in Grizzly Man when Werner Herzog says in a harrowed voice, "You must never listen to this tape." That's how I feel about this film...

The Prodigy: The Early Years

Watched The UFO Incident last night, a TV film from 1975 about Betty and Barney Hill's 1961 close encounter, the first widely reported 'alien abduction'. The opening is stilted, but the hypnosis scenes - particularly with James Earl Jones - are astonishing youtube.com/watch?v=58Hm6p…

Just been to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which was actually pretty funny. I particularly enjoyed the wedding ceremony, though probably had anybody under the age of 40 thinking 'WTF'?? Anyway, good excuse to post THE greatest version of MacArthur Park: youtube.com/watch?v=yLopen…

Very much looking forward to this, not least because it has a soundtrack by Jim Jupp of Belbury Poly and Ghostbox Records. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

By popular demand, we're revved to open pre-orders for an expanded edition of Sideways Through Time: An Oral History of Hawkwind in the 1970s by Joe Banks . Initially a limited edition of 500, it's been revised and expanded, and is available again! strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/sideway…

Another OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT... The revised and expanded edition of SIDEWAYS THROUGH TIME: An Oral History Of Hawkwind In The 1970s is now available to pre-order here: strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/sideway… Shipping 31 October... Details about the book here: daysoftheunderground.com/sideways-throu…

Saw the special showing of Zardoz, plus Q&A with John Boorman, at the NFT last night. Hadn't seen it in years, and it's a MUCH better film than I remember - quirky, inventive, funny, and yes, a bit saucy. It looked fantastic too. Really not just about Sean Connery's costume...

Lovely stuff... News item about the upcoming Revised & Expanded edition of Sideways Through Time Strange Attractor, featuring a quote from me! #hawkwind vivelerock.net/blogs/news-1/s…