Nick Turner's Sphinx : Xitintoday

Hawkwind : Space Ritual

With Mrs Blade out on the lash last Friday with the girls, and unable to find anyone up for a “swifty” after work I went onto www.ents24.com to see what was happening gig-wise.

F**k me, Nick Turners Space Ritual are down the 100 Club!

Havn’t seen so many ageing acid casualties since the the last time I was in the crash-out tent at Stonehenge (1981/2?).  (Tip for the fashionistas out there, the “thinning on top, long at the back” hair style is soooo last year daaaahling.)

But they rocked tbh. We got Sonic Attack, Steppenwolf, Brainstorm, Quark, Reefer Madness, Ten Seconds Of Forever, Orgone Acculmulater and a couple more that I was too pissed to remember, all faithfully done.

And the 25 year old memories evoked were, of course, priceless.

Picked up Xitintoday at the gig, an album that I remember as being unlistenable hippy bollocks when it came out (the flute was recorded inside one of the pyramids, almost certainly at full moon with Orion is ascendant etc) but which has definitely improved over time.

http://rapidshare.com/files/150322032/XitinToday.rar.html          (repost Oct '08)

I’ve also put up Space Ritual (one of the definitive double live albums) up just so you can appreciate just how good Hawkwind used to be . . .

http://rapidshare.com/files/2090548/SpaceRitualCD1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/2089634/SpaceRitualCD2.rar