HW: Barney exhibit

[Andy Gilham]

> I got there today, too.  I was with the guy who used to be Stiff Records'
> accountant, and he was mentioned (though not by name) in one of the
> exhibits - a letter of Barney's to a friend.

I was there I'd say 2-3.30 - spent a lot of time chatting with Rebecca and
Mike (the organisers) though.  Nice people!

> It is a shame that a lot of the early material was cheaply printed & thus
> doesn't look that great in the exhibition.  The Hawkwind stuff is
> the best.
> My favourite was an original poster of the Astounding Sounds design that
> found it's way onto the back cover (or the front if you have the 2nd
> repress!)

You're right about the poor quality print - FRIENDS must have been done on
an absolute shoestring and was just cheap newsprint; and I don't suppose
they've been stored particularly well either, none of that comics-collector
bag-and-board stuff.

Mike showed me a collection of press cuttings about the exhibit - TIME OUT
and THE BIG ISSUE both illustrated it with the Albert Speer eagle hawk...
it's certainly the most striking image in the place.  Although I have a
special fondness for the Hawklords/Pan Transcendental Industries stuff
(which was very unpopular at the time - "where's the psychedelia??").

> The artists who put this on should document it on a website for evermore.

Well we did talk about that possibility...  although it might be a pain
sorting copyrights and getting consent.  Some of the folks who contributed
stuff were apparently a bit paranoid about that.  Old hippies eh? :)

> Andy, the occasional tube train sounds - do you think they were
> part of the
> exhibition or for real?!

The Circle Line I think!!  I must say I'd lived in London long enough to not
really notice them though!

-- Andy

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