Hawkwind's In Search Of Space is 55 years old today. Read all about it here... (including what its actual title is!) www.daysoftheunderground.com/post/prog-ch...

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To celebrate 50 years of In Search Of Space, Prog magazine asked me to write a feature on the album's making. As well as including new input from Dave Brock, I also interviewed Dave Anderson and Terry...

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Here's a visualiser/lyric video for The Campfire Glow, one of the mellower moments from The Kibbo Kift, the 1976 rock musical by VdGG co-founder Judge Smith and Maxwell Hutchinson, released earlier this year by Think Like A Key. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZEk... 1/2

Maxwell Hutchinson & Judge Smith – The Campfire Glow | The Kibbo Kift (Official Lyric Video)

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Great piece @wbgooderham.bsky.social on a terrific film that anybody with an interest in leftfield/new wave SF should watch. Original trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2jf...

Rock Hudson - " Seconds " Trailer - 1966

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'Seconds, staring a fading matinee idol among a supporting cast of character actors and relative unknowns, is Frankenheimer’s dark and singular masterpiece.' Many Happy 'Returns' to John Frankenheimer’s Seconds, which turns 60 today! buff.ly/PrRZ4jI

Episode 3 of The Progressive Rock Show's new series Genesis By Numbers is here, this week about 1976's Wind & Wuthering. Which means that our 'random number generator' has picked the band's three mid-70s albums for our first three episodes! Listen from 0:58:42 - progzilla.com/the-progress...

Went to the Garden Cinema near Holborn last night to see Andrzej Żuławski's science fiction epic Na Srebrnym Globie (1977/1988) aka On The Silver Globe. As I discovered, it is a) often visually stunning, and b) absolutely crackers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvxZ... 1/3

On The Silver Globe (Modern Trailer)

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This is an interesting, well-written article. But its central premise is patently absurd. Being the house band for the US counterculture, which happened to intersect with the early days of Silicon Valley, does not make you more culturally significant than the Beatles. archive.is/202610031058... 1/3

Peter Hammill German dates, Spring 2027... www.eventim.de/en/artist/pe...

Classic picture and headline... Robert Calvert does NOT wear shorts, even in a heatwave...

Sounds Clips@soundsclips.bsky.social · 7d ago

An article on Hawkwind by Geoff Barton in Sounds 2nd, October 1976. @joebankswriter.bsky.social

Following on from the 'Six Bob' tour of a few months before... still 30p at Manchester! #VdGG

Back on my slow tour of classic SF with Edgar Pangborn's A Mirror For Observers (1954). Pangborn was new to me, but the blurb pulled me in: "two Martians, disguised as human beings, are locked in a bitter struggle for the mind of a child genius." My thoughts here: www.facebook.com/joebankswrit...

I mention in Rock And Role that I unwittingly first heard VdGG on the Friday Rock Show in the early 80s, with Theme One used at the start of the Friday Night Connection... But did you know that the FRS also featured vintage VdGG sessions? Investigate here: www.facebook.com/joebankswrit...

Episode 2 of The Progressive Rock Show series Genesis By Numbers aired last night on Progzilla radio. This week, the panel discussed and played music from Genesis's ninth album, And Then There Were Three... Listen to what we had to say here from 1:00:30 - progzilla.com/the-progress...

Saw The Big Sleep (1946) last night at the CINÉ-REAL 16mm film club. I read the book a long time ago, but had never seen the film, though its reputation as a head scratcher preceded it... And sure enough, it's practically impossible to follow what's going on, or how it all fits together. 1/4

Another excellent night at the Tufnell Park Film Club yesterday, with a screening of 'dark Disney' classic Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983). Scripted by Ray Bradbury, it's a dreamlike and often quite disturbing film, with lots of pondering about mortality, failure and regret...

Peter Hammill vinyl reissues finally happening... www.proper-records.co.uk/2026/09/pete...

Short and to the point... #hawkwind

The first episode of the new Progressive Rock Show series 'Genesis By Numbers' aired last night on Progzilla Radio! Featuring music and discussion, this week we explored Genesis's seventh LP, 1976's A Trick Of The Tail! Listen to the episode here from 1:00.45 - progzilla.com/the-progress... 1/2

I've done another illustrated FB essay on a Hawkwind sleeve design, this time for Doremi Fasol Latido. You can view it here: www.facebook.com/joebankswrit... (with grateful acknowledgement to @johncoulthart.com)

Just popped up on FB and always worth a share... From Melody Maker, 17 Feb 1973, it's Hawkwind playing in Wandsworth Prison: "There wasn't much resemblance to Cash at San Quentin" ;-) Looks like the main source of entertainment for most of the audience was Stacia's participation...

Continuing The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage theme from yesterday, here's a piece I wrote about the album in 2014 for France's venerable Rock & Folk magazine, including a short interview with Peter at the end! (Read the English original here: www.daysoftheunderground.com/post/peter-h... 1/2

For a lot of fans (often including myself!), 1974's The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage is Peter Hammill's finest solo album. But did you know it was rush-released in Italy towards the end of the 1973, presumably to coincide with Peter's Italian tour in December? 1/2

After an extended summer break, The Progressive Rock Show panel are back in full effect and chatting this week about Peter Hammill's 1982/83 albums Enter K and Patience, which we've decided to treat as a double album. Listen to our discussion here from 1:00:35 - progzilla.com/the-progress... 1/2

First track from the upcoming Liars album has just 'dropped' (as the kidz say), and it's a bit of a banger. Their last release, 2021's The Apple Drop, was for me the album of that year, and they have one of the most interesting back catalogues of any contemporary band www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7r7...

Liars - Ice Pick, Kalamazoo (Official Video)

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Oh yeah, that's good stuff!

Thankfully, Russian Post didn't screw me over, and I got my copy of Rock and Role by @joebankswriter.bsky.social to complement my good old physical edition of VdGG: The Book. Didn't realize it's so bloody heavy! Excellent quality paper and lots of photos, that's one big meaty boy.

A new track has been released from Peter Hammill's upcoming album Tears In Time. GREAT chorus... www.youtube.com/watch?v=scX4...

So Much Water

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Just picked this up from the local Oxfam Books, which shamefully I have to confess I haven't read before... @breakfastruins.bsky.social

Saw Went The Day Well? at the estimable @tpfilmclub.bsky.social last night, a WW2 propaganda film made in 1942 by Ealing Studios about incognito Nazis invading a sleepy English village. It's surprisingly brutal, with villagers and Nazis alike axed, knifed and shot ahead of a British victory 1/3

From Sounds, 29 June 1974. This headline makes Hawkwind sound very careless... But it was of course a planned departure. (1970 rather than 1969, and yes, that was the original title of 'Goat Willow'...)

Excellent new Peter Hammill interview here, by Klemen Breznikar at It's Psychedelic Baby. A few familiar answers, but Klemen asks some great questions and winkles out some new insight I think... www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2026/09/pete...

Peter Hammill Interview: New Album ‘Tears in Time’ and the Van der Graaf Generator Years - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

As a founding member of Van der Graaf Generator and a prolific solo songwriter, Peter Hammill has spent more than half a century making music with an

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