Joe Banks

'Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground', a MOJO, Uncut, Prog & Shindig book of the year.
'Rock And Role: The Visionary Songs Of Peter Hammill + VdGG' out now.

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

Rock and Role: The Visionary Songs of Peter Hammill and VdGG is published today! "Banks tackles Hammill's canon with an energetic, imaginative style... an assiduously researched story" MOJO "An authoritative exploration... highly accessible critiques" PROG
https://t.co/Ta4534OMIh

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

@HopewellNick Thanks Nick, I'm no longer on X, but that's a great fact which will be going here ;-) https://t.co/PViSQPtPPr

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

Rock and Role: The Visionary Songs of Peter Hammill and VdGG is published today! "Banks tackles Hammill's canon with an energetic, imaginative style... an assiduously researched story" MOJO "An authoritative exploration... highly accessible critiques" PROG
https://t.co/Ta4534OMIh

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

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Be seeing you...

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

Saw This Is Spinal Tap for the umpteenth time at the appropriately named Tufnell Park Film Club @tpfilmclub the other night, which made me realise how much I non-ironically love the songs! The Ian Anderson-esque chorus of Stonehenge is particularly great! https://t.co/dzxpynBIws

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

If you're interested in 'albums of the year'-type lists, then you might want to take a look at this... https://t.co/mRxJl0VkHs

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

Hawkwind photo archivist Pedro Bellavista has posted some excellent pics from the band's BBC Maida Vale session for the Johnny Walker Show, where they recorded versions of Silver Machine and Brainstorm (02/08/72). Here's a selection... (taken by Victor de Schwanberg)

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

It's that time of the week again where myself, Graham Harfleet, Chris Clark and Andy Tillison chew through the VdGG back catalogue, the main dish this episode being Still Life.
Warning: this broadcast contains controversial views... Listen from 1:00:00 https://t.co/TAYX7Vms29

[The Hawkbinge Podcast @hawkbinge]

Ep 29: we were also very happy to chat to Paul Garbutt on the podcast about the live side of "In Your Area", as he actually saw this tour in the flesh. We got into his marvelous books, his love for current Hawkwind & the vast number of HW gigs he's been to 🚀
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[The Hawkbinge Podcast @hawkbinge]

We start the new year by announcing that the YouTube version of the new episode is now live!
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[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

@hawkbinge A polite way of saying rabid self-promotion ;-) And there's more to come...!

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Only a couple of months after the man himself appeared, here I am on Word In Your Ear talking to David Hepworth and Mark Ellen about the book and all things Peter Hammill and VdGG! (Apologies if it looks like I'm particularly fascinated by my keyboard!) https://t.co/TxTTyXXQYF

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

Inside The Generator, the podcast where myself, Graham Harfleet, Chris Clark and Andy Tillison voyage through the VdGG catalogue, has reached the mighty Godbluff. It's dark, gothic and magnificent, and that's just us... Listen here from 1:02:08 https://t.co/B3vaDichad

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

@Toshula Yes, if it has a failing, it doesn't spend long enough on 'The Final Act' of the title. But as I say, definitely not awful.

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

Just went to see Bowie: The Final Act. Very good, and resists the rather daft mythologising of Moonage Daydream. Instead, it's understated and quite emotional. Talking heads that actually say insightful things too. Anyway, definitely a film worth watching: https://t.co/FmCRdLrY0y

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

@Toshula Not from my perspective. At the very least, it's solid, never in 'awful' territory. Are you maybe thinking of Moonage Daydream, which was definitely more divisive?

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

There's a terrific five star review of Rock and Role in the latest Record Collector - many thanks to Kris Needs!

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

Cheer up, lads, it might never happen...

[Sounds Clips @SoundsClips]

Hawkwind's gig in Coventry reviewed by Chas De Whalley in Sounds 25th, December 1976. Merry Christmas Joe.
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[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

@SoundsClips @HawkwindHQ @adbreakanthems And to you!

[Joe Banks @JoeBanksWriter]

@aijac And to you!