#hawkwind 1972

WHEN THE KNOB-TWIDDLING BEGINS -- THAT'S WHEN YOUR MIND IS SENT OFF INTO THE OUTER REACHES.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1080x1393 -- Spotlight on original knob-twiddler Del Dettmar of British space rock band HAWKWIND, playing a VCS 3 (or VCS3; Voltage Controlled Studio, version #3) portable analogue synthesizer, recording live with the Hawklords at the BBC Studios, London, UK, during the band's "Doremi Fasol Latido" era, c. 1972. 📸: Victor de Schwanberg.

HAWKWIND 1972.

READY TO PERFORM THE SPACE RITUAL ON YOUR MIND AND BODY -- SHE'LL TAKE YOU ON A RIDE.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 2567x3579 -- Mega spotlight on the interstellar Stacia (Stacia Blake), in full costume, the famed dancer with the space-faring English space rock band HAWKWIND, posing in Amsterdam, Netherlands, c. 1972, during the band's "Doremi Fasol Latido" era, photographed by Gijsbert Hanekroot.

PIC #2: The original photo, from the studio of Gijsbert Hanekroot in the Netherlands.

LOUDER SOUND: "What it was like to be in the centre of that intense multi-media live show with Hawkwind on the "Space Ritual" tour?"

STACIA BLAKE: "It’s so difficult to put something like that into words, because you’re so in the moment. It was awesome, obviously. We were really lucky to have [fellow dancers] Miss Renee and Tony Carrera with us on "Space Ritual" too. They were two great talents. We were all as important as each other, in my mind. We were all cogs in the machine."

LOUDER: "Did you ever have any stage direction beforehand?"

STACIA: "What I did was totally up to me. A lot of it was interpretive dance, which was just going with the music. There were no set sequences. I had my robot routine, which always cropped up. It was basically a robot who’s given a pill and comes to life, then at the end of the sequence the pill starts to wear off and he begins to turn back into a robot and becomes frantic, because he doesn’t want to return."

COSMIC COUNTDOWN TO THE STAR-FARING SPACE RITUAL ACROSS THE SUPER-SEVENTIES.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a concert tour poster design for English space rock/progressive rock/proto-punk band, HAWKWIND, promoting the band's then upcoming "Space Ritual" Tour, starting on November 8, 1972 and ending on December 30, 1972.

"It’s November 1972, and something extraordinary is happening in the sleepy Norfolk market town of King’s Lynn. The Corn Exchange venue is packed to the rafters with East Anglian heads and freaks, along with the local chapter of Hells Angels and a smattering of terrified teenyboppers.

It’s the first night of HAWKWIND’s "Space Ritual" tour, an event that’s been trailed by the band for more than a year now. It’s the culmination of three years of intense gigging around Britain and Europe, a multimedia sci-fi spectacular featuring dancers, space-age poetry, the most ambitious lights and visuals show on the circuit, and more than two hours of continuous, mind-expanding music."

-- LOUDER SOUND/PROG, “People came up to us after gigs and said our music terrified them" -- "The saga of Hawkwind's "Space Ritual," by Joe Banks, published 12 May 2023

RHYTHM SECTION -- ELECTRONICS, PRODUCTION -- SAX, VOCALS, FLUTE -- CLASS OF '72.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1080x1350 -- Spotlight on L to R: Simon King, Nik Turner, Lemmy Kilmister, & Del Dettmar, all members of English space rock band HAWKWIND, photographed in Denmark during the band's "Doremi Fasol Latido" era, c. 1972. 📸: Jorgen Angel.

HAWKLORDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PSYCHIC WARLORDS FROM ACROSS THE POND.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on original Hawklord, Dave Brock (born 20 August 1941), English musician and multi-instrumentalist, founder and sole constant member of space rock band HAWKWIND. Here he is rocking a BLUE ÖYSTER CULT tee of the band's 1972 self-titled debut album. Venue & location unknown, c. early '70s.