Hawkwind lookalikes!
Do you know anyone who looks like Harvey Bainbridge? Send me a pic if so (but warn me first, eh? I'm not looking to have a coronary any time soon)
Has anyone noticed the astonishing resemblance between Nik Turner and my mate Ali, whose mugshot appears all over this website? Ali features on the Hairy Arsed Hawkwind Fans page, the Camping at Canterbury page and on the HawkFest Pics (Fans) page...
such a bad world.
Liverpool
Thanks to Vulcan Foundry & Linuxchaos for the animated gif and the caption...
In the past I have struggled to adequately describe Simon House, variously likening him to a Roman Emperor or a College Professor. Both of these lifestyle choices are, however, personified in one individual, an eminent member of the English Literati of the 20th Century. Author of many books such as Count Belisarius, Wife To Mr. Milton, They Hanged My Saintly Billy, and most famously, "I, Claudius"; Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you the amazing Cuban Heels and glissando violin solos of Mr. Robert von Ranke Graves!
The first time I drew this comparison was in an article I wrote for Urban Guerilla, a fine Hawkwind website run by my mate Rob (listed on the Links page as Dreamworker.co.uk). He censored it, possibly on account of not knowing the actual meaning of the term "bugger's grips", and prey to uneasy feelings that Hawkwind and homoerotica do not mix. I should say not, old boy!! I meant nothing of the kind, after all, we're all clean-limbed, handsome, fresh-faced young men here... But if you dressed Richard Chadwick up as a 19th Century Victorian engineer, he'd probably turn round and invent the steam engine or build you rather a nice iron bridge at the bottom of your garden.
Only in this one photo. Bad, bad haircut, Huw.
An undoubted visual similarity. But the does the likeness end there? Maybe not - they were both explorers of space and time (and pharmaceuticals)
Nik in long haired hippie mode this time. Catweazle was a character from a children's TV show in the 70's, who had an 11th century hippie lifestyle, hanging out in the woods, doing magic mushrooms and taking the piss out of the straight Normans, who all had proper jobs like being Accountants, and living in castles.
Two mad scientists...of course, the photo is of Tom Baker but it's an uncanny fact that Harvey intensely resembles everyone who's ever played Dr.Who, including William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee etc etc. Plus a few of the monsters. (Just kidding Harv, I think you're lovely really...)
A disreputable old fraudster living on past glories, or an artist who's keeping alive the spirit of the golden years? Compo divides opinion like nobody else...
Despite the suffix "esq." being understood by Americans to denote a lawyer, in British usage it's just a form of address replacing the prefix "Mr." So don't think I'm accusing this poor innocent creature of being an attorney! (I had to say that in case he comes after me with his axe shaped like a Theremin.)
Hey Kitchener, don't you know that moustaches went out with the Beatles? Martin Griffin once said that Calvert resented his presence as another extrovert in the band. The truth is to do with quite another sort of going Over The Top: Biggles evidently took exception to having to share the limelight with another World War One archetype, and no less a person than a Field Marshall, at that...
The 10th Lookey-Likey already - we're into double figures. This one was wittily suggested by Mr. Milo Black of the Assassins of Silence. Thank you, sir!
It's a game of two halves, Trevor... I thought we looked good going forward, then we've made a silly mistake at the back and Brock's got the ball in the net. I thought their keeper played a blinder, mind you. We dominated the game and didn't get the result we deserve. It's going to take hard work for us to move up the table, but we've got the players, and we've got the belief in ourselves. We've got some youngsters coming through, too, the boy Calvert's a smashing lad, etc. etc.
Well this has been a tough one, trying to find a doppelganger for Dave Brock. But finally, here he is, and his name is...Dave Brock! (If you don't believe me, check it out here)
Should have spotted this one years ago, given Rudolph playing alongside Al 'Quaeda' Powell and the fact that both of them made themselves scarce before Bob Calvert penned the 'Hassan-i-Sahba' exposé
There ain't half been some clever bastards...
Andrew Who? I hear you say...Well once there was a band called Wham, with a fat bloke and a skinny bloke, and they sang about girls but really came across as a gay couple. One of them had talent and the other one...well... I met Andrew Ridgeley once and he was an almighty tosser
Thanks go to Mrs. Dave Museum for spotting this uncanny resemblance between the No. 2 Bass Assassin and the touchy-feely BBC TV chef who gropes any woman unfortunate enough to come within 18 inches of him (that's the extent of his reach)...
CAPTURED AT LAST! News today (Sunday December 14th 2003) came that U.S. Armed Forces had at last succeeded in capturing this hirsute criminal. Michael Moorcock was run to earth in his hidey hole in Lost Pines, Texas. There was apparently jubilation on the streets of nearby cities such as Baghdad, Mosul and Austin...
Who?? I hear you say... Well, Jez Huggett etc. etc.. I know, you meant the other bloke... Jez was the sax player who guested with Hawkwind despite looking like he'd come straight from the set of The Blues Brothers. But that would be too easy, so instead here he is with his alter-ego, Toht: the Gestapo agent from Raiders Of The Lost Ark. If you remember, Jez plays in a jazz outfit called Band of Gold, and in the film, Toht seared the palm of his hand by foolishly grabbing a headband of gold. And they both wield instruments of torture! Surely they are one and the same.
They're both pretty good on a quick roll of the skins. Actually that's a lie - Ringo's rubbish!
Thanks to Nick Randles for the suggestion, and to Mike Holmes for reminding us all that both of 'em are leaders of Orcwind, arf arf.
Now I don't want you to think for a minute that I waste my time watching crap like reality TV. This was suggested by Dave "Soap Opera" Museum who tells me this scrofulous Cameron character appeared on the most recent series of Big Brother
Thanks and credit goes to Graham, who not only spotted the resemblance but came up with the photos too. I believe the shot of Nik (or Albert) is a recent addition to the Space Ritual website
Alfred E. Neumann? That would be the little feller from Mad magazine. Actually any ventriloquist's dummy would have done just as well...
This bust of Pompey, one of the Roman Republic's most successful generals, is housed in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket museum in Copenhagen. The headgear of this well-known Hawkwind webmaster, by contrast, was purchased at K-Mart if I remember correctly...
Currently appearing as the Jesus Freak in "Harold and Kumar Get The Munchies" (in the UK - "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle" in the USA) is our very own Alan Davey, in his alter-ego guise as Christopher Meloni...thanks to Mango Steve for the pic and the idea...
Left: Hawkshow
Jim Carrey in "The Mask", that is...the plot goes something like this: an unassuming apprentice capstan fitter by day, and humble plucker of banjos by night, our hero stumbles across a strange mask among the rubbish bins round the back of the Eel Pie Island Hotel. He pulls the mask on and finds he can do all these hitherto undreamt of power chords and cosmic spacey stuff. The rest is history.
Right: Been smokin'
This page is perhaps a strange place to put this, but thanks anyhow to Graham Pierce for the information I place before you here...and the photo, and the link, and the whole idea of posting it...
For four years starting in the 70's, he studied improvisation in London with Maggie Nichols and John Stevens. Between 1976 and 1980 he was a member of the critically acclaimed, freely improvising band John Stevens Away. During the 1990's extensive tours followed in Britain, Europe and the USA, with cult bands Mothergong and Gong.
Since 1994 Robert has pursued his passion for collective improvisation within the Howley Calvert George Trio, which, in 1998 and 1999 toured Poland. Robert made his first recording with the British progressive rock band Catapilla in 1970 and since then has been recorded with just about
every group he has played with."
There was also another Bob Calvert who apparently was responsible for an "unfortunate incident" and had to resign from the brass band of which he was a member. It may have been this same brass band (somewhere in the North of England or anywhere they have coalmines and working men's clubs) that included musicians called Dave Brock and Alan Bravey - but I doubt it.
OK, now we've got that Calvert imposter person out of the way, we can resume our normal service, which brings you the amazing likeness between Captain Dave Brock and Kevin Turvey, the first of many woefully unfunny characters brought to the small screen by Rik Mayall...the BBC describe Kevin Turvey thus: "A self-appointed investigative journalist, Turvey was a wide-eyed berk from Redditch with a disjointed outlook on life which was nostly a cover for his pathetic existence." Well, I'm only saying they look alike...
Virgin on the ridiculous...
"Asterix, the hero of these adventures, is a shrewd, cunning little warrior; all perilous missions are immediately entrusted to him. Asterix gets his superhuman strength from the magic potion brewed by the druid Getafix..."
Sticking with the theme of Francophone cartoon characters, I have previously accused the poor beleaguered figure of Tintin (who's actually Belgian, not French) of resembling Mr. Sam Ollis from Space Ritual... Actually it's easy to tell them apart because Tintin is 76 years old and Sam is nearly 14!
Hornetlord chimes in with this: "I just watched the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, and couln't help thinking I had seen the Zaphod Beeblebrox (president of the galaxy, played by Sam Rockwell)
character before..."
Another one (well, 3-in-1, actually) courtesy of Hornetlord. It is said that every person has a doppleganger: here we see that Bob Calvert’s is Patrick McGoohan – the actor who was in cult 60’s TV series “Danger Man” (shown in the USA as “Secret Agent”) and “The Prisoner”.
Thanks to Tony for this... if you ever wondered why Jason was scraping away at that appalling instrument between his legs, now you know.
We all know Lemmy is mystifyingly popular with the ladies, and Ian McShane is apparently also widely
Who'd ha' thunk it? An icon of male beauty like Tim mistaken for a raspy-voiced psychedelic veteran like Becks. The Spice Boy and the Space Man...
"An amazing combination of timidity and inflexibility, impatience and procrastination, Bernie is a complete pessimist. He is increasingly aware of his age, but thinks if he pretends not to notice, the clock will stop. He relies increasingly on Rosie to manage his unruly business, though he never acknowledges it unless circumstances force him to. Despite all this, he is an engaging and quite lovable creature."
BTW the resemblace is visual only, pay no attention to the drugs reference!
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