Calvert’s second album was originally released by United Artists in 1975. Produced by Brian Eno, the album is another ingenious concept work featuring guests from Hawkwind, the Pink Fairies and sci-fi writer Michael Moorcock. This re-mastered reissue with expanded booklet features two previously unreleased bonus tracks "Howzat!" & "Cricket Lovely Reggae" (Cricket Star)
First released in 1989, featuring tracks from his solo albums. Tracks: Evil Rock; Catch A Falling Starfighter/Gremlins/Aerospace Age; Inferno; Test Tube Conceived; Working Down A Diamond Mine; All The Machines Are Quiet; Work Song; Telekinesis; Acid Rain; Lord Of The Hornets.
Excellent solo album by the Hawkwind space poet. Recorded in 1982, this includes guest appearances by Simon House, Michael Moorcock and Nik Turner. Released to accompany one of the best rock novels of all time, 'Hype' is part concept album, part soundtrack, and wholly the most underrated project Calvert was ever involved in
Co-writer of "Silver Machine", a member of Hawkwind, famed poet, author and lyricist, Robert Calvert is a legend. This album showed how far he had come from space-rock, consisting of a series of sparse electronic songs concerned with the plight of the miners during the general strike of 83-84, interspersed with interviews with the participants catually conducted by Calvert himself. The haunting 'All The Machines Are Quiet', 'Work Song' and the biting, spiteful 'Ned Ludd' are among his finest compositions, and the album is boosted further by the inclusion of 'Lord Of The Hornets' and 'Greenfly And The Rose', two tracks previously available only on an ultra rare 45.
Legendary release from 1974 from the Hawkwind vocalist and lyricist. This twisted rock opera based on the doomed East German airplane features an all star crew from Hawkwind, The Pink Fairies, Vivian Stanshall and Arthur Brown and is a spacey and mysterious voyage. Tracks: The Aerospace Inferno; Aircraft Salesman; The Widow Maker; The Right Stuff; Board Meeting; The Song Of The Gremlin (part 1); Ground Crew; Hero With A Wing; Ground Control To Pilot; Ejection; Interview; I Resign; The Song Of The Gremlin (part 2); Bier Garten; Catch A Falling Star.
Remastered reissue with bonus tracks and full repackaging. The first solo album by Hawkwind poet, lyricist and frontman Robert Calvert was first released in 1974 to huge critical acclaim. Featuring Hawkwind and special guests Paul Rudolph (of the Pink Fairies), Vivian Stanshall, Brian Eno, Arthur Brown and Jim Capaldi, the album is a conceptual work of of excellence and dark wit. Remastered from the original master tapes and with fully restored artwork, this reissue features three bonus tracks including a previously unreleased extended version of "The Right Stuff" and is certain to appeal to the legions of Hawkwind fans throughout the land. The liner notes are written by Hawkwind's Nik Turner.
Reissue of two albums: 1992's "Cellar Tapes" (actual title: "Blueprints From The Cellar (Cellar Tapes Parts 1 & 2)") and the 1993 live album "At The Queen Elizabeth Hall". "Cellar Tapes" was written and recorded at Robert's home in Ramsgate between 1985/86 (using a Revox tape machine), and was released as a cassette and sold through Hawkwind fanzines. It presents the concepts and evolution of songs that appeared on "Freq" and "Test Tube Conceived". The live album at QEH was also originally released as a mail-order only cassette in super limited quantities. Both album's are extremely rare and have been remastered here for release on CD. The artwork for both albums is superb and was specially created by Robert's wife Jill Calvert for the BGO CD release.
The great poet and swordsman on stage in 1986 promoting his final opus 'Test Tube Concieved' just over two years before his untimely and sudden death from a heart attack. Much of the material that appears here is taken from that album, alongside trcaks from 'Captain Lockheed' 'Hype' and his time with Hawkwind. An officially sanctioned and remastered release now featuring orginal artwork.
Robert Calvert. Poet, singer, rock and roller, author, broadcaster, painter and all-round iconoclast. What more can be said about him? Well, a lot actually, as the press don't seem to have cottoned onto this man's genius in the way they should have. Maybe he just died the wrong side of 40 for coolness. This show is one of the last twenty he performed prior to his death, with an excellent band featuring guitarist Aaron Phillips, and features revving, chrome-plated renditions of such classics as 'Ejection' 'The Right Stuff' and 'Catch A Falling Starfighter', as well as the Hawkwind track most associate inextricably with him- 'Spirit Of The Age'. This is an officially sanctioned and remastered release overseen by his widow Jill, with original artwork.
Former Hawkwind vocalist, poet, showman and all-round political agitator (not to mention unsung instigator of several musical fashions) Calvert and his band Maximum Effect (aka the Starfighters) recorded this set live in Manchester in October 1986, as part of the tour to promote the Test Tube Concieved album. The tracklisting features many tracks from that album such as 'In Vitro Breed' 'Save Them From The Scientists' (which may sound earnest and dated now but still had a valid point to make) 'Rah Rah Man' and 'Telikinesis', alongside two great tracks 'Ned Ludd' and 'All The Machines Are Quiet' from his socialist masterpiece "Freq" . And of course, it wouldn't be a Calvert show without some of the Hawkwind tunes he was most associated with (and so he bloody should be, he wrote them) 'Quark Strangeness And Charm' and 'Spirit Of The Age' as well as Michael Moorcock's 'Sonic Attack'. THINK ONLY OF YOURSELVES!! All the releases in this series have been officially sanctioned and remastered with original artwork included.
An excellent rehearsal tape recorded in the Autumn of 1987. Includes the band (featuring excellent guitarist Aaron Phillips) working out new arrangements of 'Ejection' 'The Right Stuff' 'Song Of The Gremlin' 'Catch A Falling Starfighter' and a rearranged version of his best-known composition 'Silver Machine' entitled 'Silver Machine Blues'. All officially sanctioned by the late great man's estate, remastered and featuring original artwork.
Robert Calvert, live at the Middlesborough Poly in May '86. Remastered from the original tapes, with permisiion from Roberts widow, one of many re-releases that will be coming out. Drawing from his recent album Test Tube Conceived as well as key Hawkwind songs, this is a great live album, capturing the essence of that special something that Robert had as a performer/writer and what makes him a collectable cult figure. Includes: "Spirit Of Age", "Rah Rah Man", "Quark Strangeness And Charm" and "Save Them From The Scientists."
Acid Rain contains two concert recordings from Leicester in 1986 and London in 1987. Both performances feature Robert alongside the band Maximum Effect. The sets feature a good mix of solo material from Robert’s solo career including Working In A Deadmine and Ned Ludd and also a number of Hawkwind songs such as Damnation Alley and Quark Strangeness And Charm. All the releases in the series have been officially sanctioned and re-mastered for release featuring original artwork. Robert Calvert enjoyed cult status as an artist and is still seen as an important figure by the still large Hawkwind fan base.
Continuing the series of releases from the Robert Calvert archives, Ship Of Fools once again captures Robert Calvert on the tour to promote the Test Tube Conceived album in November 1986. The set includes On Line and Telekinesis from Test Tube Conceived, Ned Ludd and Lord Of The Hornets from Freq and more interestingly from Robert’s time with Hawkwind, Orgone Accumulator, Damnation Alley and the song Robot which had originally appeared on the 1979 Hawkwind album P.X.R.5. All the releases in the series have been officially sanctioned and re-mastered for release featuring original artwork. Robert Calvert enjoyed cult status as an artist and is still seen as an important figure by the still large Hawkwind fan base.
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