The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London is a 1973 live double album recorded in 1972 by UK rock band Hawkwind

Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

. It is their fourth album, reached #9 in the UK album charts and briefly dented the Billboard Top 200, peaking at #179.

The album was recorded during the tour to promote their Doremi Fasol Latido

Doremi Fasol Latido

Doremi Fasol Latido is the third studio album from Hawkwind, released in 1972. It reached #14 on the UK album charts.-New Members:The rhythm section of Dave Anderson and Terry Ollis was replaced by Lemmy and Simon King, both of whose style differed notably from their predecessors. This changed the...

album, which comprises the bulk of this set. In addition, there are new tracks ("Born To Go", "Upside Down" and "Orgone Accumulator") and the songs are interspersed by electronic and spoken pieces making this one continuous performance. Curiously, their recent hit single "Silver Machine

Silver Machine

Silver Machine is a 1972 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind. It was originally released as a single on 9 June 1972, reaching #3 on the UK singles chart. The single was re-issued in 1976, 1978 reaching #34 on the UK singles charts, and in 1983 reaching #67 on the UK singles charts...

" was excluded from the set, and only "Master of the Universe" remains from their first two albums.

The Space Ritual show attempted to create a full audio-visual-cerebral experience, representing themes developed by Barney Bubbles

Barney Bubbles

Colin Fulcher aka Barney Bubbles was a radical English graphic artist, whose work primarily encompassed the disciplines of graphic design, painting and music video direction. He is most renowned for his distinctive contribution to the graphic design associated with the British independent music...

 and Robert Calvert

Robert Calvert

Robert Calvert was a writer, poet, and musician.-Biography:Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age and later attended school in London and Margate. He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street...

 entwining the fantasy of Starfarers in suspended animation travelling through time and space with the concept of the music of the spheres

Musica universalis

Musica universalis is an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies—the Sun, Moon, and planets—as a form of musica . This 'music' is not usually thought to be literally audible, but a harmonic and/or mathematical and/or religious concept...

. The performance featured dancers Stacia

Stacia

Stacia , born 26 December 1952 in Ireland, was a dancer for the English rock group Hawkwind. She is now a professional artist.-With Hawkwind:...

, Miss Renee and Tony Carrera, stage set by Bubbles, lightshow by Liquid Len

Liquid Len

Jonathan Smeeton is a British lighting designer who has also worked under the name of Liquid Len.Smeeton was the creator of "Liquid Len and the Lensmen" who provided lightshows for the band Hawkwind in the 1970s.He has also worked for groups such as The Rolling Stones, Jane's Addiction, Marilyn...

 and poetry recitations by Calvert. On entering the venue, audience members were given a free programme (reproduced on the 1996 remaster CD) featuring a short sci-fi story by Bubbles setting the band in a Starfarers scenario returning to Earth.

The original release featured edits and overdubs, the sleeve notes explaining that "We had to cut a piece out of Brainstorm and Time We Left because they were too long", but the 1985 Space Ritual Volume 2 album contains the full unedited versions. A previously unheard edited version of "You Shouldn't Do That" (segued with an unlisted "Seeing It As You Really Are") from this concert was included on the 1976 Roadhawks

Roadhawks

Roadhawks, is a 1976 compilation album by Hawkwind covering the years 1970-1975. The band referred to their live shows with the term "Roadhawks" for many years.. However, there is only one live song on the album...

compilation album, then subsequently included as a bonus track on the 1996 remaster CD. The full unedited version of the track can be found on the Hawkwind Anthology

Hawkwind Anthology

The Hawkwind Anthology series of records were originally issued mid-1980s containing live and outtake material from Hawkwind's career to that date....

album. June 2007 saw another EMI remaster issue with different bonus tracks and DVD-audio.

"Sonic Attack" had been written by science fiction author Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....

, who often performed with the band when convenient and Calvert was unavailable. Here it is recited by Calvert and it was scheduled for single release, promotional copies being distributed in a cloth sleeve, but it never did receive a full release.

In the Q

Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...

& Mojo

Mojo (magazine)

MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...

Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #8 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Earth Calling" (Robert Calvert
   Robert Calvert
   Robert Calvert was a writer, poet, and musician.-Biography:Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age and later attended school in London and Margate. He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street...
   
   ) – 1:44
2. "Born To Go" (Calvert, Dave Brock
   Dave Brock
   David Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...
   
   ) – 9:56
3. "Down Through The Night" (Brock) – 6:16
4. "The Awakening" (Calvert) – 1:32

Side 2

1. "Lord Of Light" (Brock) – 7:21
2. "Black Corridor" (Michael Moorcock
   Michael Moorcock
   Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
   
   ) – 1:51
3. "Space Is Deep" (Brock) – 8:13
4. "Electronic No. 1" (Dik Mik Davies, Del Dettmar
   Del Dettmar
   Del Dettmar is best known as synthesizer and keyboard player with the English space rock band Hawkwind from 1971 to 1974....
   
   ) – 2:26

Side 3

1. "Orgone
   Orgone
   Orgone energy is a theory originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich. Reich, originally part of Sigmund Freud's Vienna circle, extrapolated the Freudian concept of libido first as a biophysical and later as a universal life force...
   
    Accumulator" (Calvert, Brock) – 9:59
2. "Upside Down" (Brock) – 2:43
3. "10 Seconds Of Forever" (Calvert) – 2:05
4. "Brainstorm" (Turner) – 9:20

Side 4

1. "7 By 7" (Brock) – 6:11
2. "Sonic Attack" (Moorcock) – 2:54
3. "Time We Left This World Today" (Brock) – 5:47
4. "Master Of The Universe" (Nik Turner
   Nik Turner
   Nik Turner is a British musician, best known as a founding member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner plays saxophones, flute, sings and is a composer...
   
   , Brock) – 7:37
5. "Welcome To The Future" (Calvert) – 2:04

Bonus tracks on 1996 Remasters CD:

1. "You Shouldn't Do That" (Turner, Brock) / "Seeing It As You Really Are" [unlisted] (Brock) – 6:58
2. "Master Of The Universe" (Turner, Brock) – 7:23
3. "Born To Go" (Calvert, Brock) – 13:02

2007 Digital remaster

CD 1

1. "Earth Calling"
2. "Born To Go"
3. "Down Through The Night"
4. "The Awakening"
5. "Lord Of Light"
6. "Black Corridor"
7. "Space Is Deep"
8. "Electronic No. 1"
9. "Orgone Accumulator"
10. "Upside Down"
11. "10 Seconds Of Forever"
12. "Brainstorm" (full version) - 13:46

CD 2

1. "7 By 7"
2. "Sonic Attack"
3. "Time We Left This World Today"
4. "Master Of The Universe"
5. "Welcome To The Future" (full version) - 2:49
6. "You Shouldn't Do That" - 10:38
7. "Orgone Accumulator" (alternate nights performance) - 8:50
8. "Time We Left This World Today" (alternate nights performance) - 13:22
9. "You Shouldn't Do That" (alternate nights performance, from the Roadhawks
   Roadhawks
   Roadhawks, is a 1976 compilation album by Hawkwind covering the years 1970-1975. The band referred to their live shows with the term "Roadhawks" for many years.. However, there is only one live song on the album...
   
   compilation album) - 6:42

DVD Audio
tracks are in both DTS 96/24 and 24 bit/48 kHz Stereo format

1. "Earth Calling"
2. "Born To Go"
3. "Down Through The Night"
4. "The Awakening"
5. "Lord Of Light"
6. "Black Corridor"
7. "Space Is Deep"
8. "Electronic No. 1"
9. "Orgone Accumulator"
10. "Upside Down"
11. "10 Seconds Of Forever"
12. "Brainstorm"
13. "7 By 7"
14. "Sonic Attack"
15. "Time We Left This World Today"
16. "Master Of The Universe"
17. "Welcome To The Future"
18. "You Shouldn't Do That"

Musicnauts

• Robert Calvert
  Robert Calvert
  Robert Calvert was a writer, poet, and musician.-Biography:Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age and later attended school in London and Margate. He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street...
  
   – vocals
• Dave Brock
  Dave Brock
  David Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
• Nik Turner
  Nik Turner
  Nik Turner is a British musician, best known as a founding member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner plays saxophones, flute, sings and is a composer...
  
   – saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , vocals
• Lemmy (Ian Kilmister) – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
• Dik Mik (Michael Davies) – Synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  
• Del Dettmar
  Del Dettmar
  Del Dettmar is best known as synthesizer and keyboard player with the English space rock band Hawkwind from 1971 to 1974....
  
   – Synthesizer
• Simon King
  Simon King (musician)
  Simon King is an English drummer most noted for his work with Hawkwind. He was described in 1985 by British rock magazine 'Sounds' as 'definitive rock drummer.'...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

Recording

• Recorded at Liverpool Stadium
  Liverpool Stadium
  Liverpool Stadium was a stadium in Liverpool, England. It hosted many different events including boxing, wrestling, concerts, and political hustings.-External links:**-Bibliography:*Curley, Mallory...
  
  , 22 December 1972 and Brixton Sundown, 30 December 1972 by Vic Maile and the Pye Mobile.
• Produced by Hawkwind. Mixed by Vic Maile and Anton Matthews at Olympic Studios, Barnes.
• "You Shouldn't Do That" (bonus track) recorded at Brixton Sundown, 30 December 1972. Originally released on the Roadhawks
  Roadhawks
  Roadhawks, is a 1976 compilation album by Hawkwind covering the years 1970-1975. The band referred to their live shows with the term "Roadhawks" for many years.. However, there is only one live song on the album...
  
  compilation album.
• "Master Of The Universe" and "Born To Go" (bonus tracks) recorded at The Roundhouse
  The Roundhouse
  The Roundhouse is a Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England, which has been converted into a performing arts and concert venue. It was originally built in 1847 as a roundhouse , a circular building containing a railway turntable, but was only used for railway...
  
  , 13 February 1972. Originally released on the Greasy Truckers Party
  Greasy Truckers Party
  Greasy Truckers Party is a 1972 live album by various artists recorded at a February 1972 Greasy Truckers concert at the Roundhouse in London. The concert featured three bands, Man, Brinsley Schwarz and Hawkwind, and musician Magic Michael...
  
  Various Artists album.

Sleeve

The sleeve was designed by Barney Bubbles

Barney Bubbles

Colin Fulcher aka Barney Bubbles was a radical English graphic artist, whose work primarily encompassed the disciplines of graphic design, painting and music video direction. He is most renowned for his distinctive contribution to the graphic design associated with the British independent music...

 and came in 3x2 panel foldout, the outer 6 panels being colour, the inner 6 panels being monochrome, the discs in psychedelic patterned orange & yellow inner sleeves were folded into this. It made Q Magazines 100 greatest album covers list.

• The outer foldout features an illustration of Miss Stacia flanked by the hounds of King over stage shots of the band.
• The inner foldout features three panels of a photograph of outer space with three illustrations on each panel headed by lines from a Hawkwind song.
• Inner panel 1: features a vintage photograph of a naked woman with listed credits.
• Inner panel 2: chac bacab – features an image of a female nipple as a planet, and a legend of the Earth as a living entity.
• Inner panel 3: kan bacab – features an image of a foetus suspended in space with the legend "The Universe resounds with the joyful cry I AM. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Naked I came out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither."
• Inner panel 4: Features a mandala
  Mandala
  Maṇḍala is a Sanskrit word that means "circle". In the Buddhist and Hindu religious traditions their sacred art often takes a mandala form. The basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four gates containing a circle with a center point...
  
   with the legend "Everything exists for itself, yet everything is part of something else. The One and the many contain in themselves the principles of time and space. The way up and the way down are one and the same."
• Inner panel 5: Features a dedication from Lemmy to John the Bog, Supernova and Sue Bennett. zac bacab, tec bacab and bac bacab expounds upon religious and cosmological myths and sciences, starting with the William Blake
  William Blake
  William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
  
   poem "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour", ending with the Alfred Whitehead
  Alfred North Whitehead
  Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education...
  
   quote "Give up illusions about ideas of order, accept nothing of inherited norm. Spread joy and revolution. It is the business of the future to be dangerous."
• Inner panel 6: features a winged superhero grasping an electrical cable and lightning bolts, perched upon an Earth situated in a void.

Release history

• May-1973: United Artists Records, UAD60037/8, UK vinyl – original issues came in 6 panel fold-out sleeve with inner sleeves. Subsequent releases in gatefold sleeve.
• Sep-1992: One Way Records, S2257659, USA CD
• Mar-1996: EMI Remasters, HAWKS4, UK CD – initial copies in digipak with reproduction of the Space Ritual tour programme (An extract from the Saga of Doremi Fasol Latido)
• Jun-2007: EMI Remasters, UK 2CD+DVD
• 11 October 2010: Rock Classics, RCV016LP, UK, 2x12" vinyl 1000 copies; RCV017LP, UK, 2x12" vinyl 1000 copies

Volume 2

Space Ritual Volume 2 is an archive live album by Hawkwind

Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

 released in 1985 consisting of a live performance from 1972. The tapes were licensed by Dave Brock to former Hawkwind bass player Dave Anderson for release.

This recording is part of the performance that was processed for disc 2 of Space Ritual. Here it is in its original state, with no edits or overdubs, notable differences being a different middle section to "Orgone Accumulator", "Paranoia" included as the middle section of "Time We Left This World Today" and "Wind Of Change" leading into "7 By 7". "Space Is Deep" and "You Shouldn't Do That" / "Seeing It As You Really Are" from this tape were released on Hawkwind Anthology

Hawkwind Anthology

The Hawkwind Anthology series of records were originally issued mid-1980s containing live and outtake material from Hawkwind's career to that date....

.

1. "Electronic No. 1" [listed as "Space"] (Dettmar/Dik Mik) – 2:15
2. "Orgone Accumulator" (Calvert/Brock) – 8:45
3. "Upside Down" (Brock) – 2:45
4. "Sonic Attack" (Moorcock) – 2:50
5. "Time We Left This World Today" (Brock) / "Paranoia" [unlisted] (Brock) – 13:20
6. "10 Seconds Of Forever" (Calvert) – 2:10
7. "Brainstorm" (Turner) – 12:00
8. "Wind Of Change" [unlisted] (Brock)
   "7 By 7" (Brock) – 8:50
9. "Master of the Universe" (Turner/Brock) – 7:40
10. "Welcome to the Future" (Calvert) – 2:55

• see starfarer for full catalogue of releases, re-releases, retitles of this album.

External links

• Jon's Attic – Sounds review, 19 May 1973
• HawkFanFare – Melody Maker review, 19 May 1973
• Starfarer – NME review, 19 May 1973
• Starfarer – Mojo review, July 1999
• Starfarer – Classic Rock review, Nov 2000

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