Hawkwind

Dunstable Queensway Hall

10th February 1983

The ticket price for this show was £4.00

prob. Aiwa condenser mic.>Aiwa walkman (auto-record level)>TDK-AD cassette>Yamaha SW1000XG A/D>.wav>CEP>CDWAV>CD and .shn.

Queensway Hall is a circular dome - virtually a hemisphere. If you stand in the center and speak quietly (in the empty hall) the echoes of your voice amplify what you are saying quite freakishly.

This recording was made close to the stage - which was very wide. The sound sources were mostly on-stage equipment, rather than the PA - the sound from the PA passing mostly far behind the microphone. Perhaps because of this it has an unusually clear sound (given the unsophisticated equipment used) - in particular the instruments are quite clearly placed across the soundstage (listen to Dave Brock's guitar!)

Line-up was:

Dave Brock: Guitar, keyboards, vocals
Harvey Bainbridge: Bass Guitar, keyboards, vocals
Huw Lloyd-Langton: Lead Guitar, vocals
Nik Turner: Saxophone, flute, vocals
Andy Anderson: Drums

This was Andy Anderson's 2nd gig (of only 8) with Hawkwind. 

Disc #1:

1.  Chatter				0:55
2.  Outer Limits intro		1:14
3.  Choose Your Masks		5:34
4.  Coded Languages			5:38
5.  Magnu>				5:44
6.  Dust Of Time			4:17
7.  Dream Worker>			6:38
8.  Waiting For Tomorrow		6:00
9.  Ghost Dance			4:37
10. Psychedelic // Warlords	7:48
11. Fade-out				0:05

Total Time:	48:24

Disc #2:
1.  Fade-in				0:06
2.  Sonic Attack			5:34
3.  Solitary Mind Games		6:07
4.  Utopia>				2:53
5.  Social Alliance			3:38
6.  Motorway City			7:24
7.  Brainstorm			8:39
     --encore--
8.  Turner Rap & In The Mood	0:31
9.  Ground Control To Pilot	0:39
10. Ejection>			3:06
11. Shot Down In The Night		2:19
12. Master Of The Universe		4:21

Total Time:	45:23

I think I hear Nik squawking offstage at 2:36 in Coded Languages, maybe 3:02 & 3:44, possibly even earlier - prior to his apparant appearance on stage @ 4:01.

Following audio repairs were made in CEP:

From start of audio:

The entire 93 minutes were normalised.

I noted analogue flaws at:

d1t03 (Choose Your Masks) : 0:25, 0:42
d2t03 (Solitary Mind Games) : 4:37
d2t07 (Brainstorm) : 5:24

I slightly repaired the one at 0:25 in d1t03, the rest are untouched. There are probably a few more similar, but the recording is generally very good considering the basic equipment used.

The tape flip in Psychedelic Warlords was a bit of a problem. I tried to figure out how to patch it from 16/2/83, but the tempo (as well as the sound) was very different. In addition, the structure seemed somewhat different.

However the last couple of seconds before the tape flip pretty much matched the first couple of seconds afterwards, so with the loss of approximately 2-3 seconds IN ADDITION TO the music already lost with the tape flip, I patched the two segments together without a break. I think the result is better than leaving a silent gap in the middle of the track. It's 5:19 into Psychedelic Warlords. In reality there is probably 15-20 seconds of missing music.

The gap between the band leaving the stage, and returning for the encore is significantly cut. But you probably guessed that.

The fade out at the end of disc #1 duplicates the first few seconds of d2t02, and the fade-in at the start of d2 duplicates the last few seconds of d1t10. To rejoin (ie using the .shn files), simply omit d1t11 & d2t01.

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