The Text of Festival
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 Text of Festival | ||||
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Compilation album by | ||||
Released | 1983 | |||
Recorded | BBC Sessions 1970-71; Colchester Technical College, 19-Feb-1971 | |||
Genre | Space rock | |||
Label | Illuminated Records | |||
Hawkwind chronology | ||||
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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 inferior-quality off-air recordings of the broadcast. The recordings have also appeared on The Weird Tapes, Hawkwind, Friends and Relations and Hawkwind Anthology.
Track listing
Side 1
- "Master Of The Universe" (Nik Turner, Dave 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
Side 2
- "Paranoia" (Hawkwind)
"Seeing It As You Really Are" (Hawkwind) – 11:50 - "We Do It" (Hawkwind) – 13:45
Side 3
- "You Shouldn't Do That" (Hawkwind) – 21:35 [listed as "Sound, Shouldn't, Improvise"]
Side 4
- "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 4-6 and disc 2)
- Dave Anderson - bass guitar (tracks 1-3)
- 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, the Hawkwind portion of which was released in 2011 as Leave No Star Unturned (see Discogs entry).
- Sources
- 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).
- 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"].[1]
- Track 5-6: Paris Cinema, London, 5-Nov-1970; Broadcast: John Peel Sunday Concert, 15-Nov-1970.
- Disc 2: Recorded at Colchester Technical College, 19-Feb-1971 (with Uriah Heep).
- Credits
- Cover art by John Coulthart.
- The album title is a reference to the debut novel by Mick Farren.
Release history
Date | Title | Format | Region | Label, Catalogue | Note |
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Jul/1983 | The Text of Festival | 2x12"vinyl | UK | Illuminated Records, JAMS29 | |
Jul/1985 | In the Beginning | CD | UK | Demi Monde, DM005 | sides 1 and 2 |
Nov/1988 | The Text of Festival | 2x12"vinyl | UK, Germany | Thunderbolt THBL 2.068 | |
Dec/1988 | The Text of Festival | CD | UK | Thunderbolt CDTB 2.068 | sides 1-3 |
Jul/1992 | Masters of the Universe | CD | UK, USA, Germany | Thunderbolt, CDTB105 | sides 1 and 2 |
1993 | The Text of Festival | CD | UK | Thunderbolt CDTB 068 | sides 1-3 |
1996 | Masters of the Universe | CD digipak | France | Spalax, SPALAXCD14972 | sides 1 and 2 |
Jan/1996 | Masters of the Universe | CD | USA | Magnum America, MACD028 | sides 1 and 2 |
Feb/1998 | Welcome to the Future | CD1 of 4 | UK | Dressed to Kill, CLP0220-2 | sides 1 and 2 |
Feb/1998 | Welcome to the Future | CD4 of 4 | UK | Dressed to Kill, CLP0220-2 | sides 1-3 |
Mar/1999 | The Entire and Infinite Universe of Hawkwind | CD1 of 4 | UK | Dressed to Kill, REDTK98 | sides 1 and 2 |
Mar/1999 | The Entire and Infinite Universe of Hawkwind | CD4 of 4 | UK | Dressed to Kill, REDTK98 | sides 1-3 |
Aug/1999 | Live 1970 1972 | CD | UK | Pegasus, PEGCD197 | sides 1-3 |
Sep/1999 | Year 2000: Codename Hawkwind | CD2 of 2 | UK | New Millennium Communications, PILOT33 | sides 1 and 2 |
2000 | Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin: Live At the Empire Pool 1976 | CD2 of 2 | Germany | Falcon | sides 1 and 2, omits "Master of the Universe" |
Oct/2002 | Cosmic Overdrive | CD2 of 2 | UK | New Millennium Communications, PILOT 146 | sides 1 and 2 |
Mar/2005 | Codename Hawkwind | CD | UK | Neptune Records, TUNECD102 | sides 1 and 2 |
References
- Garner, Ken. In Session Tonight: The Complete Radio 1 Recordings. BBC (c) 1993. ISBN 0-563-36452-1.
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