Hawkfest


Hawkfest is three-day outdoor weekend festival organised and centered on Hawkwind. The event is open only to members of their fanclub and is limited to around 1000 attendees.
The stated intention is to recreate the atmosphere of festivals of old, as an alternative to the currently heavily commercialised events, and to make the whole event as family-friendly as possible with side attractions and workshops. Hawkfest was proposed by Dave Brock as a "realist" alternative to the free festival culture of the 1960s.

2002

Schedule

  • Friday: Bedouin, Mr Quimby's Beard, Bruise, Litmus
  • Saturday: Hawkwind, Astralasia, Spacehead, Tribe of Cro, The One Eyed Bishops, Proteus
  • Sunday: Huw Lloyd Langton's Broken Bits Band, Judge Trev, Connecting Routes, Tim Blake
  • Acoustic Tent: Jez Huggett's Band of Gold

Hawkwind set

CD release

;CD1
  1. Hawkwind - "Night Of The Hawks"
  2. Proteus - "Evenstar" / "Cloud City"
  3. Tribe of Cro - "I Have No Life"
  4. Spacehead - "Fire Dragons"
  5. Astralasia - "Uncle Sam's On Mars"
  6. Jez Huggett's Band of Gold - "Kansas City Blues"
;CD2
  1. Bruise - "Miss Bigfish"
  2. Connecting Routes - "Intro"
  3. Mr Quimby's Beard - "Mystery"
  4. Bedouin - "LSD"
  5. Litmus - "Invader"
  6. Huw Lloyd Langton's Broken Bits Band - "Cardboard City"
  7. The One Eyed Bishops - "Hurry On Sundown"

2003

  • Date: 8–10 August 2003
  • Location: Garstang, nr. Preston, Lancashire, England
  • Info: The first 500 ticket holders received a free limited-edition CD promo for the Hawkfest 2002 2CD.

Schedule

  • Friday: Arthur Brown and Instant Flight, Big Amongst Sheep
  • Saturday: Hawkwind, Harvey Bainbridge, Spacehead, Litmus, Mr. Quimby's Beard
  • Sunday: Drunk In Public, Sophia Dean
  • Barn: Afresco Mantis, Alien Dream, Assassins of Silence, Tribe of Cro, Tarantism

Hawkwind set

2007