Podcast: Hawkbinge

A journey through the Hawkwind discography with someone who has never heard any of the albums before.

Ep5: Warrior On The Edge Of Time

Hawkbinge returns with 105 minutes on Warrior On The Edge Of Time. Another hugely extended episode is required to unpack this milestone album and everything that surrounds it.  Andy & Matt get into not only the music, but also Michael Moorcock and The Eternal Champion books upon which it is based, yet another signature piece…

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Ep 4: Hall Of The Mountain Grill

Hawkbinge is back!! After something of an unintended hiatus, Andy & Matt return with a bumper episode, really the triple-album-box-set of episodes, coming in at around 90 minutes.In it, they arrive at  Hall of the Mountain Grill – Andy's first ever Hawkwind album. In addition to Matt's hot-take and the usual track-by-track rundown, Matt discusses…

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Ep 3.5: Space Ritual

Hawkbinge returns with the Space Ritual bonus episode!  Matt & Andy talk about the place that live albums play in their respective musical backgrounds before taking a dive deep into this landmark album from Hawkwind, compare live & studio versions of tracks such as “Seven by Seven” and “Time We Left This World Today” and…

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Ep 3: Doremi Fasol Latido

Finally, Hawkbinge returns to tackle Hawkwind's third album. Andy & Matt get deep into this particular monster, Matt tries to pick a favourite track and, as usual, they take a look at what else was released that same year, (a pretty eclectic one), and go over the state of the band in the wake of…

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Ep 2.5: Silver Machine

Our path on the Hawkbinge journey generally leads us through all of Hawkwind's vast array studio albums.  However, it happens to be the case that the biggest (and only) Hawkwind hit and their most well-known song by far is a non-album single, the legendary Silver Machine.  It would seem like a dereliction of duty for…

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Ep 2: In Search Of Space

It took a little longer than anticipated but Hawkbinge is back with a bumper second episode.  Hear Andy and Matt unpack everything that comes with Hawkwind's breakout second album – the music, the packaging and the Log Book that accompanied the original vinyl.  Also, a look at 1971 and its rather stellar list of album…

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Ep 1: Hawkwind

Matt's introduction to Hawkwind – will he overcome his confusion?  Will he like “Hurry On Sundown”?  How will he cope with “The Reason Is?” and “Paranoia”?  All this, plus we catch up on what else we've been listening to, look at the music scene of 1970 and chat about where the Hawkwind concept seems to…

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Ep 0: Introduction to HawkBinge

Andy & Matt introduce HawkBinge, their journey through every Hawkwind album from 1970 to the present day.  While Andy has been into Hawkwind for many many years and knows all the albums very well, Matt has never heard any of them and so will be hearing all this music for the first time each episode. …

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