Hawklords Tour Programme

The Hawklords Tour Programme has always been one of the strangest pieces of writing or memorabilia associated with Hawkwind. For sheer gibbersish, nothing else touches it except perhaps the Hawkwind Log, which accompanied the In Search of Space album. And that at least had the excuse of probably having been written under the influence of LSD.

However, re-reading this strange item now (with the aid of a magnifying glass, the text is tiny white writing on a black background, and looks like a negative of ants racing across a concrete patio) the text is reminiscent of some of J.G. Ballard's more experimental pieces (not like the Eurotrash Murder Mysteries he writes now) crossed with Alfred Jarry's pataphysics (as immortalised by Silver Machine).

I would not go so far as to say that I can at last make sense of it, as that would mean that I have succumbed to senile dementia. But here is the

Strong in Hygienic Industry
Founded in 1953, by a dream concurrent with space flight to the moon, Pan Transcendental Industries, together with macroscale investment from the state and corporate capital, found it possible to embark on a wholesale megastructural rehabilitation of the globe. A dream which soon became an enlightened reality and one from which the majority of the world's population benefit today.

The Heaven on Earth Syndrome
In 1966, Pan Transcendental Industries began its historic programme for the industrialisation of religion. To fuse the popular with the metaphysical and the commercial with the sublime. With our policy of the reduction of culture to commodity, The Transcendental Age began with London selected as the laboratory. This oasis, at the same time real and mythical, where the invention and testing of a messianic lifestyle and its attendant focussed mysteries could be pursued as a collective experiment in which the entire Universe became an incubator of man made experience. The first metaphactory was built. Covering an area of 150,000 square acres and straddling the Thames between Teddington Lock and the Tower of London on its East-West axis and from Bromley in the South to Highgate in the North, it employs nine million people. Today, PTI is the single largest multi-national corporate in the world, employing forty five million people with metaphactories in every capacity. This success has been achieved completely through the radical pioneering work of Doctor Griffin and his hypno-physicist theorem.

(Right: I wasn't around at the time but I am pretty sure that 1953 did not look like this. It would not surprise me to learn that this picture and a couple of other similar ones had become prized examples of a certain type of pornography - which seems completely sexless to most of us)

Uplift
Doctor Brian Griffin's Theorem, or the elevator principle as it has become known, postulates that the greater the distance from Earth and therefore the more unnatural the location, the closer the communication with whatever remains e.g. light or air. (The principle is the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. The further one travels upwards, the more undesirable the circumstances it leaves behind.) This simple process, which revolutionised world opinion, obviously works in reverse ratio. Thus, angels are attracted from heaven to earth and humans from earth to heaven, or as Doctor Griffin fundamentally expresses, the core of his equation:

Given G = Ground, H = Heaven, A = Angels, CD = Car Door

G + CD = H - A
:: G + CD + A = H
:: G + A = H - CD

Which can be explained simply as 'There are no car doors in Heaven when angels are on the ground'.

The Angel Angle
Due to an unspecified process of levitation that would be able to suspend gravity, the involvement of Angels with the surface of the Earth was tenuous. They could assume, at any moment, the status of artificial planets visiting Earth only occasionally. The Angels had no programme, without function they simply exist. They were supposed to be united with a future civilisation that deserved them. At this time, the Griffin Theorem was successfully applied in the now famous experiment, and a period of divine intervention began. Angels could now become manifest, lured to Earth and although built without purpose, they could be used by man for his own purposes. Discovering the earth in coma and bringing with them a system of poetic formulae that replace traditional quantifiable planning in favour of metaphysical planning, the Angels exchanged their cosmic energies and feathered wings for the latest production car doors. Facilities for manufacture, furnishing and trial flights of car doors were set up and with the huge increase in sales, the first factory was built.

The Spirit Of The Age
Based on the elevator principle, the factories are built on a layering of the world's surface. The structure supports seven horizonal frames all the size of the original plot. Each of these floors or institutes are modified to become an incubator of ideologies, devoted to the artificial conception of theoretics, interpretations, conceptions, proposals and their infliction on the world. These ideological laboratories, equipped to temporarily suspend unwelcome laws, are created to facilitate and provoke speculative activities. Projects developing under ideal and identical conditions have the right to expand indefinitely toward heaven. Together these institutes form an enormous

The Process
Basement. Foundry. This institute introduces the Voluntary Prisoners to the factory rituals. During this period of adjustment, the fresh arrivals make the precious metal for the car doors by alchemical process.

Assembly Rooms. Staffed by car crash victims whose function is to generate new forms of social behaviour through the transformation of private into public fantasies. The institute is equipped to stimulate fantasies, that once rehearsed cause a chain reaction by suggesting further elaborations. The car doors are made up.

Computers. In a soft environment of hypnotic suggestions, various athletic facilities are provided to aid physical voluntary self experimentation. Here Nature, obliterated by the new psycho-technology, returns from its total eclipse as an unstable series of superimposed and simultaneous activities into egalitarian flight, scar tissue and immolation.

Sales. Two towers lean toward each other in ominous attraction. All ideological conflicts generated by the workers' attitudes are finally re-programmed. The angels select car door models and flight programmes in exchange for cosmic energy rates fixed by the international Hypostatic Union scale.

Research and Development. An institute of biological emergencies, where all teaching is compressed into a four year period, so that university graduates are no older than 11. This is achieved by the inmates from asylums, who as a form of therapy, perform their manias as history lessons.

Conference. The entire institute is solid, although sealed inside, in a descending series of galleries is an accelerated vision of the history of the world's philosophies. In a de-materialised form, the Angels assemble for their car door fittings.

The Ball. A permanent confrontation where the ideal meets the real. The work force, now perfected, are allowed to communicate with the painted angel brides in the cocktail lounges and on the dance floors.

The Perisphere. Take Off. Using searchlights, the Angels descend or ascend the cone of possibilities to their correct destination, imagining completely synthetic conditions to realise their self-contained fantasies.

Reality You Can Rely On
In recent times, Pan Transcendental Industries Inc. realising the fundamental problems of twentieth century man, have started to implement our next 25 year plan. Using our extensive resources our programme intends to celebrate a Utopia unprecedented in history. Our true ambition is to create a heaven totally fabricated by man. To live logically inside fantasy. The responsibilities of a specifically external existence have increased correspondingly. To design a paradise that not only creates the magic arrangement of human outlet but also to define ascenario for the scriptless angels. Today, on earth techno psychic batteries are the key to a scale of synthetic experience representing a free fall in the space of divine imagination. Pan Transcendental Industries represents the border between two states. Our work is revolutionist and evolutionist at the same time. We have created a successful radical alternative reality which is as critical of

Left: the other Mondo Bondage shot - more 1978, and a timely Devo reference to boot. (No, the Hawklords were not ripping off Devo!)

The Hawklords
Bob Calvert: Voice
Dave Brock: Guitar
Harvey Bainbridge: Bass
Steve Swindells: Keyboards
Martin Griffin: Drums

Dance group
Sarah Lee Barber
Lorye Naysmith
Barton Sunya ta

Paramedia
Bob Bromide
Barney Bubbles
Dna Fawcett
Chris Gabrin
Brian Griffin
John Mills
Frances Newman

Management: Doug Smith
Liaison: Caroline Guinness
PA: Rig Hire
Lighting and lighting designer: Jon Smeeton
Road Manager: Les McClure
Clothing: Tony Laumer
Hawkwind Feedback: 15 Great Western Road, London W9

Left: credits Below: Back cover

communism in its ascendency as capitalism in its decline. Governments of both East and West are being advised by us and in a philanthropic gesture, head of state, military and civic leaders have been placed in a consultancy basis on our industrial board. Despite the adverse publicity by minority unworthies in some segments, we acknowledge the absolute authority over the planet that this power places in our hands.

awakened and tempted them to escape into PTI in an impulsive exodus and to become its' Voluntary Prisoners. The elite experience of ascension democratised through technology began an emotional and intellectual adventure profoundly altering the decisions and destiny of present day society. The metaphactory is a socio/theosophic condenser and celibate work machine combined. The lower floors bring the workers' bodies to a physical peak condition and rising through the mandatory work time the worker/gymnasts associate with the angel brides who are restricted to the lounges of the upper levels. Together, athletes and angels attend their meeting in the Perisphere before an aerial panorama of the city.

incubator of the World itself. They are breeding on the Globe. Hidden in the clouds other activities occupy other plots. A lie becomes a truth. A dream from which there is no waking.

Supertime with Superhealth
Pan Transcendental Industries Inc stands for human and superhuman, for death and immortality, for fall and resurrection. It becomes evident that The Process becomes a denial of procreation as a basic condition for the break with cosmic law, and still more, as a condition for enlightenment, freedom and magic immortality. With the certainty that there is. indeed, a heaven and that its' inhabitants could be emancipated through machinery, the collective subconscious of the world's population has been

text in a readable format, make up your own mind. Was Bob Calvert a visionary or a lunatic? Who was Bob Bromide? Was Dave Brock putting Bromide in Bob's tea?