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Reaction Pod Crew - assemble!  We get back into the DeLorean and return to the present day, stopping only to pick up Mr Joe Banks on the way, so that we give our hottest of hot-takes on “Psychedelic Selection”: the new release from the mighty Hawks! You will join us after we’ve played the album only a couple of times and done some rapid note-taking on Friday morning, and I’m sure thoughts around these tracks will be evolving as we keep playing this one in the coming days. This is a pod we will no doubt revisit when we come to deep-dive “Psychedelic Selection” at the end of the canon studio album run. But don’t hold your breath, that’s a little way off yet 😃 While you’re here, there’s a new t-shirt for season 4… The boutique Hawkbinge t-shirt collection from Skull Print is here All Hawkbinge proceeds will be donated to The British Bee Charity 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 HAWKBINGE PLAYLISTS  Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.6 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.7 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

A new season, a new decade, a new millenium - yes, Y2K is here, and Hawkbinge returns to deep-dive into Spacebrock - one of those odd ones that might be a canon Hawkwind studio album, and might not. However, Wikipedia says it is, and so here we are. Not an familiar album to Andy, let alone Matt, so join us on a journey to remember... 2000 turned out to be a year of massive album releases, so we take a look at the musical world into which this piece of Hawkwind was launched, chat about the other records we've been spinning in between plays of Spacebrock, check out the artwork (!!!) and generally get season 4 of Hawkbinge up and running. The boutique Hawkbinge t-shirt collection from Skull Print is here All Hawkbinge proceeds will be donated to The British Bee Charity 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 And there's a new one for season 4! Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.6 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.7 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

GOODBYE SEASON THREE! Our time in the 1990’s comes to an end, and we wrap up the decade in the company for the one-and-only Mr Ian Abrahams, esteemed author of “Hawkwind: Sonic Assassins”, which has been such a huge resource for us on our Hawkbinge journey. We have a fun, sprawling chat about all things Hawkwind in the 90’s and each select our favourite ‘orphan tracks’ from the decade: those songs (or versions of songs) that didn’t make it onto a studio album. We then get deep in the most excellent things Ian has been up to since last we spoke, including his writing for the Hawkwind edition of Record Collector last year, and his help with the marvellous book by Marion Lloyd-Langton about Huw’s life, and her life with him. We heartily recommend seeking that one out. We also unveiled the lucky winner of the competition set on the last episode, and if that’s you then expect to hear from us very soon! Many thanks to Ian, always great to chat Hawkwind with him :) The boutique Hawkbinge t-shirt collection from Skull Print is here All Hawkbinge proceeds will be donated to The British Bee Charity 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝  Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.6 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.7 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

Hawkbinge returns (!) with “In Your Area”, the final entry of the 90’s and a curious release which is one side live and one side studio. The live side recorded at the end of the ’97 tour, and the studio side being comprised of efforts laid down the following year. Is it a canon studio album? Andy would say no, but Wikipedia says yes, and so here we go… So that’s one side of studio recordings which Matt gives his take on and Andy gives his insights into, as ever. But what about the live side? Welcome to Hawkbinge Mr Paul Garbutt, author of two excellent Hawkwind books “The Second Golden Age of Hawkwind: The Eleventh Second of Forever” and “The Twelfth Second of Forever: 2023-2025” Paul actually saw the line-up on this tour and joins Matt & Andy to chat “In Your Area” and his wonderful books. Along with all that, Matt and Andy check out the artwork, look at the musical world of 1999 and chat about the other music they've been listening to in the many months since the previous episode. And say hello to vol.7 of the Hawkbinge Sessions playlists on Spotify! The boutique Hawkbinge t-shirt collection from Skull Print is here All Hawkbinge proceeds will be donated to The British Bee Charity 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.6 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.7 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

Reaction Pod Crew - to the DeLorean! Andy & Matt race back to the present from 1997 and pick up Joe along the way so that they can give their combined initial reactions to this latest Hawkwind release.  NOTE: Andy, Matt and Joe have managed to give the album several listens before jumping on a Zoom call very early the day after the album dropped and then handed over to Matt to madly edit this together so we can drop it as soon as possible, so it may sound a little rougher than usual. Also remember that this is a pretty instant reaction, not a deep-dive, and it will be very interesting to see how we come back to this when we reach the last few episodes of the canon studio album deep-dive episodes. Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

The Hawkbinge journey through Hawkwind releases from the 90's continues with 1997'a Distant Horizons, an album about which almost nothing good is ever said. Fans don't like it, the buying public of 1997 didn't like it, reviewers don't like it, even the band themselves beat this one up with pretty much every reference.  Will Matt & Andy find any rays of light in the darkness? Find out, as Matt gives his take on an album he'd never heard of before late last year, and Andy gives his insights into the album that he completely failed to connect with when he first heard it about 15 years ago. Grab your sandwich of steel and your thermos of oil for two hours of Distant Horizons chat... Along with all that, Matt and Andy check out the artwork, look at the musical world of 1997 and chat about the other music they've been listening to since the release of the Alien 4 episode. And Matt puts his picks from Distant Horizons alongside these tracks into a Hawkbinge Sessions playlist for future release. The boutique Hawkbinge t-shirt collection from Skull Print is here All Hawkbinge proceeds will be donated to The British Bee Charity 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.6 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

HAWKBINGE RETURNS with a monster of an episode: so much Hawkwind news to catch up, the big release from 1995 to dissect and the big bonus of a chat with our good friend Joe Banks about his most excellent new Hawkwind book “Sideways Through Time”. Prepare to abducted by the Hawkbinge podcast and not returned to reality for several hours… So, we’re still in 1995 for Hawkwind’s second release of that year, “Alien 4”. Some new faces in the mix for an album based largely around the concept of alien abduction. We check out the first appearances for both Ron Tree and Jerry Richards, deep dive into  this maybe-kinda-concept album, ponder who the aliens really are and finish up with some Space Sex. No, really.   As ever, we also look back at the music scene in the latter part of 1995, check out the state of the band at the time and explore the album art, while also adding tracks to the forthcoming Hawkbinge Sessions Vol 7 playlist on Spotify from albums we've been listening to in between our respective alien abductions. And finally… a visit to the pod from Joe for a chat about his new book provides a most excellent way to kick off our 2025 episodes. The boutique Hawkbinge t-shirt collection from Skull Print is here All Hawkbinge proceeds will be donated to The British Bee Charity 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

The White Zone is for loading and unloading only... Welcome to 1995 and the first, and only, episode of Binge Warriors as we deep dive into singular album by Hawkwind under that particular moniker. And what an intriguing deep dive it is too, this being something of a forgotten item, glossed over by most of the media in the history of the band. As ever, we check out the music and artwork from this quirky little release, while also adding tracks to the forthcoming Hawkbinge Sessions Vol 6 playlist on Spotify from albums we've been listning to in between visits to the White Zone... The boutique Hawkbinge t-shirt collection from Skull Print is here All Hawkbinge proceeds will be donated to The British Bee Charity 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

Fresh from our sojourn to the present to react to the release of the latest album "Stories From Time And Space", Hawkbinge returns to the 1990's to get back to the canon album deep-dives with "It Is The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous" from 1993. As ever, we look at the music scene of 1993, (warning:  some of the biggest tunes of the year are absolute shockers), look at the state of the band, check out the cover artwork and, of course, we chat about what's been on our turntables recently in between huge numbers of repeat listens to IITBOTFTBD, and you'll find those tracks on the forthcoming Hawkbinge Sessions Playlist Vol 6 on Spotify. And finally, a special announcement which will hopefully make some listeners happy, and a large number of bees truly ecstatic... Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

The Hawkbinge Release Day Reaction Pod crew assembles to give the hottest of red-hot hot-takes on the latest from the Hawks, "Stories From Time And Space", which dropped today! A journey in time for us for sure, from 1992 where Hawkbinge was last seen - it's good to give the DeLorean another run out. Please note: Andy, Matt and Joe have managed to give the album a couple of listens, jumped on a Zoom call and then handed over to Matt to madly edit this together so we can drop it on the day, so it may sound a little rougher than usual. Also remember that this is a pretty instant reaction, not a deep-dive, and it will be very interesting to see how we come back to this when we reach the last few episodes of the canon studio album deep-dive episodes. Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

The Hawkbinge voyage through the 90's continues with the epic "Electric Tepee". An album almost as long as the podcast that covers it, this one features Hawkwind's biggest step into techno and electronics yet. It's a marathon, not a sprint... As ever, we delve into the big releases of 1992 featuring the big chart hits of the year so we can see what musical environment Electric Tepee was launched into, check out the state the band at the time, and check out the album artwork. Matt will also select his picks for the Hawkbinge Master Playlist on Spotify, and add our turntable picks to what will end up being Vol 6 of the Hawkbinge Sessions Playlist, the first 5 of which you can find here: Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

New year, new season, new episode! Hawkbinge is back for season 3 covering the 1990's, kicking off with Space Bandits! Yet another fresh start for Hawkwind with interesting arrivals and departures from the band, so no change there.  As ever, we get into the music of the day to set the scene for Space Bandits, going through some of the biggest albums and hit singles of the year, look at the state of the band and check out the album cover artwork as well as get Matt's take on the music. Matt will also select his picks for the Hawkbinge Master Playlist on Spotify, and add our turntable picks to what will end up being Vol 6 of the Hawkbinge Sessions Playlist, the first 5 of which you can find here: Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

A Hawkbinge bonus...  Setting the seal on season 2, Matt & Andy look back on Matt's selections from the 80's albums that made the Hawkbinge Master Playlist on Spotify. What leapt out at him, what was he thinking? Did he pick the same tracks you would have done?  Next stop, the 90's... Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

HAWKWIND: THE THATCHER YEARS Hawkbinge is back from the dark recesses of our completely unplanned hiatus! And we're casting an eye over 80's Hawkwind to round off season 2 and get our PDA's, pogs and pagers at the ready  for season 3 and the 1990's... However, We couldn't face this daunting task on our own, and so we enlisted the help of an amazingly special guest to talk 80's Hawkwind with us: a man who was there, lived it,  breathed it, and  documented most of it with his camera - yes, it's all-round renaissance man Oz Hardwick himself - renowned Hawkwind photographer, published poet, Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity, musician (with an album of space rock out now, no less) and writer. And we get into all of that, because it's fascinating, and then blaze a trail randomly through Hawkwind's 80's releases before choosing some of our favourite orphan tracks that never made it onto those albums, but maybe should have... Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.

The Hawkbinge New-Release Reaction Crew is reunited as friend-of-the-pod Joe Banks joins Matt and Andy as they jump in the DeLorean once more and slide sideways through time from 1988 to 2023 in order to check out the brand new Hawkwind album and give their hot-takes on  "The Future Never Waits"... Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.1 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.2 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.3 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.4 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Sessions Vol.5 playlist on Spotify Click here for the Hawkbinge Master playlist, also on Spotify. We truly appreciate all the tweets, messages, ratings and comments, and if you'd like to get in touch, you'll find Hawkbinge here: @hawkbinge on Twitter and Insta, and email [email protected]   Check out the Deep Dive Podcast Network @DeepDivePodNet on Twitter.