First concert

The first concert I ever attended was the first Hawkwind's two "Into the Eighties" concerts at the Electric Ballroom in Camden on 28 December 1979.

The support band was meant to be the Psychedelic Furs (who went on to fairly big things in the 80s) but they pulled out and were replaced by the now forgotten Billy Karloff and the Extremes. Amazingly there is a fair bit of footage from this band on You Tube



The Hawkwind line up at the time was Dave Brock (guitar, synths+ Harvey Bainbridge (bass) Huw Lloyd Langton (lead guitar) Simon King (drums) and Tim Blake (synths)

Shot Down In The Night

Motorway City

Spirit Of The Age

Urban Guerilla;

Prelude/Who's Gonna Win The War



World Of Tiers

New Jerusalem;



Lighthouse

Brainstorm

Phenomenon Of Luminosity

PXR5

Master Of The Universe



Silver Machine

Levitation



None of the videos are from the concert but it was a great introduction to live music for yours truly when 16