I\'m A Badass Caption: I can haz links, style or anything that is valid markup :)

Concerts: Hawkwind Announce December UK Tour & Hawkfest

Posted on Saturday, July 17 @ 19:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Legendary space rockers Hawkwind will embark on a major UK tour in December 2010 in support of their new studio album Blood Of The Earth.

The nationwide tour consists of 13 dates. Tickets are priced at ?20, are available from the National Credit Card Hotline 0871 2301101 or can be ordered from www.seetickets.com. The tour kicks off at the Holmfirth Picturedome on Friday Decemeber 3rd. Support for all dates comes from UK rockers The Jokers.



In addition to the UK tour, Hawkwind will appear at Hawfest 2010 next month, which returns to Afton Farm on the Isle Of White. Curated by the members of Hawkwind, Hawkfest takes place between August 27th and 29th. Hawkfest originally came about after the breakdown of the free festival movement in the mid to late 1980s. The band felt that major festivals had lost what made them great. Gone was the intimate, carnival atmosphere and the colourful characters, only to be replaced with huge-scale commer*****m.

Wanting to get back to the roots of what made festivals so enjoyable, Hawkwind constructed a family friendly event where children could play and explore, whilst parents watched great music, safe in the knowledge that the kids would be safe. Tickets are priced at ?70, for further info visit www.hawkfest.com.

Blood Of The Earth is Hawkwind?s first new studio album since 2005?s Take Me To Your Future. The album is comprised of brand new Hawkwind tracks alongside the first ever studio recording of 1974?s "You?d Better Believe It" and a new 2010 version of Dave Brock?s 1984 solo release "Sweet Obsession."

The album was made available as a limited edition 2CD, the second disc of which contains live tracks and an exclusive interview. Live tracks include "Tide Of The Century" taken from Tim Blake?s 2000 solo album of the same name, and a cover version of "Long Gone" recorded for Mojo's Syd Barrett special edition of The Madcap Laughs.

MySpace site

[Source: Noblle PR]

Posted in Band News (tours, comings/goings, etc)