From your webmaster's YouTube account: Huw soloing on The
Island:
Huw in full flight with LLG
in 2001. This is for broadband users only (the files are large) and are
downsampled from the Live DVD, which is
still available, by the way. Uploaded so far are
windofchange.wmv (35MB),
lonelyman.wmv (40MB) and
outsidethelaw.wmv (28MB). If you
appreciate the clips and would like more, please consider
donating a little something to Huw and Marion, to say thanks, and I'll get
round to putting up more DVD tracks for free download. Note
that these clips are at VideoCD resolution, 352 by 288 pixels. The original DVD
is the full 704 by 576 pixels and far higher quality.
Here are video highlights of Huw and the Assassins of Silence in
concert on January 29th, 2005 in Oxford. A 28 minute ('feature-length'!)
compilation at Video CD resolution (but reduced frame rate) of highlights from
the whole concert. There's plenty of Huw at the start and end, with plenty of
the Assassins in the middle. Tracks include Hurry on Sundown, Spirit of the
Age, High Rise, Demented Man, Dreaming City and Moonglum. The reduced frame
rate keeps the file size down, but it still gives a very good flavour of the
gig. The file is a whopping 34MB, so best not to try downloading unless you're
on broadband! Please download ('Save as') assassins.wmv
Here's a rarity from 1991, Huw and Harvey Bainbridge (and
Richard Chadwick) jamming at the Hostage Release Day event. Here's 90 seconds
of glorious Ebow from Huw: hostagerelease.wmv, 5MB
Here's Huw again with the
Assassins of Silence, this time on September 3rd in Walthamstow, 2004, a
19 minute compilation of highlights from the whole concert. The file is around
14MB and will take about 55 mins to download on an old dial-up modem or 'no
time at all' if you're on broadband. Please download ('Save as')
assassinswalthamstow.wmv. To
give you some idea of the atmosphere: The first chords from Assault and Battery
ring out and the music builds... A coloured light fountain plays over the lead
guitar in the middle of the stage - it's Huw!.... On the next chord change, a
fabulous dancer appears... the lights, the music, the solos, it was a MAGICAL
gig. Oh yes, I've got this sequence at DVD resolution, if anyone's interested?
Contact me.
Finally, for a bit of fun(!), here's Huw (and your humble webmaster)
jamming away, unrehearsed, at the
Swan in Arborfield in
2004. The clip is just under 6MB and you can download it as
huwswan1.wmv
From June 2005, here's a minute or so of Huw and band playing
at Rock In The Rec. rockinthrec.wmv, only
1.4MB.
Interview
The following clip was extracted from an hour-long interview with Huw
and Marion at their home in Spring 2004. I've compressed it down a lot so that
it's not too large (6MB total) to download on a 56K modem (about 25 mins). Here
it is: http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/hawkwind/huwinterview.wmv
Steve Litchfield
Here's a friends and Relations style link, to close.
Steve (me) is your humble webmaster and sometimes does a couple of Hawkwind
numbers with or without Huw at concerts. Here's a video clip of the 1973
classic Space Is Deep, for one man, his guitar and (at the end) a drummer!spaceisdeep.wmv,
7MB. Next time, I'll rope Huw in, I promise!
Huw in full flight with LLG
in 2001. This is for broadband users only (the files are large) and are
downsampled from the Live DVD, which is
still available, by the way. Uploaded so far are
windofchange.wmv (35MB),
lonelyman.wmv (40MB) and
outsidethelaw.wmv (28MB). If you
appreciate the clips and would like more, please consider
donating a little something to Huw and Marion, to say thanks, and I'll get
round to putting up more DVD tracks for free download. Note
that these clips are at VideoCD resolution, 352 by 288 pixels. The original DVD
is the full 704 by 576 pixels and far higher quality.
Here's Huw again with the
Assassins of Silence, this time on September 3rd in Walthamstow, 2004, a
19 minute compilation of highlights from the whole concert. The file is around
14MB and will take about 55 mins to download on an old dial-up modem or 'no
time at all' if you're on broadband. Please download ('Save as')
assassinswalthamstow.wmv. To
give you some idea of the atmosphere: The first chords from Assault and Battery
ring out and the music builds... A coloured light fountain plays over the lead
guitar in the middle of the stage - it's Huw!.... On the next chord change, a
fabulous dancer appears... the lights, the music, the solos, it was a MAGICAL
gig. Oh yes, I've got this sequence at DVD resolution, if anyone's interested?
Contact me.
Interview