The Pink Fairies Are Coming To Texas… The Pink Fairies Are Already Here! New Album, Live Performance, Podcast Special and More!
Los Angeles, California: It’s been a long time since Pink Fairies fans had this much to be excited about. A new album, Covered In Pink, arrives this week and, on March 21, the band will be making a super-rare live appearance at Kick Butt Coffee, on Airport Boulevard in Austin, Texas.
With a line-up featuring current Fairy Alan Davey, plus guests including sci-fi legend Michael Moorcock and Headcat’s Danny B Harvey, the band promises a set full of favorites and surprises.
Davey, of course, has been a Pink Fairy since the band’s return in 2017; and before that, he was a mainstay in Hawkwind - perhaps the one band that could ever match the Fairies for adrenalin-driven underground lost in space rock’n’roll, and proved it with dozens of shared bills throughout the early 1970s.
Moorcock, meanwhile, can trace his involvement in the Pinkwind axis back to the earliest days, when he frequently depped for Hawks frontman Robert Calvert… he was also responsible for several of Hawkwind’s best-loved numbers, including “Sonic Attack,” “Kings of Speed” and “The Wizard Blew His Horn.”
And Harvey’s Headcat co-starred another Hawks legend, the late, great Lemmy - the man whose bass playing drew Alan Davey to the instrument in the first place, and lives on in Ace of Spades, the Motörhead tribute band that Davey launched back in 1999.
Also on the bill for this historic occasion, Davey’s own band Hawkestrel - trans-dimensional auralnauts of the past, present and future, with their own fearless re-envisioning of Hawkwind classics.
It’s going to be a night to remember!
https://fliktix.com/event/pink-fairies-hawkestrel-performing-the-music-of-hawkwind/
That’s not all, either!
Covered In Pink itself is a ferocious assault upon both the Fairies own family tree, and the world that revolved around them when the band was at its excoriating peak.
Singles from the album have already previewed new versions of the Fairies classic “Do It” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AarZOIuNn4Q&list=RDAarZOIuNn4Q&start_radio=1) and Motörhead’s epochal “Motörhead” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1Rj29cpik&list=RDgV1Rj29cpik&start_radio=1); plus classics by David Bowie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Ly-ustN28&list=RDa2Ly-ustN28&start_radio=1) and the Mickey Finn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7SVTkof6xM&list=RDq7SVTkof6xM&start_radio=1).
Now prepare yourself for Fairified takes on Led Zeppelin, Mountain, the Guess Who and more.
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And still there’s more, as Cleopatra’s Pirate Radio Cleopatra Podcast sits down with Davey’s fellow Fairy, band co-founder Paul Rudolph, for an 80 minute journey back through the Fairies past and present, while delving, too, into his time with Hawkwind, Eno and Robert Calvert, his thoughts on Motörhead, Moorcock, Melanie and more. Plus music from across the years. Catch it on YouTube, Mixcloud and your favorite podcast platform
https://www.mixcloud.com/CleopatraRecords/pirate-radio-cleopatra-pink-fairies-special/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OClJ1F-NgOY
Finally, look out for the latest edition of Cleopatra’s official newsletter Breaking Down Barriers, coming later this month. Because… you guessed it! There’s even more Fairies in there!!!!
So cover yourself in Pink. We have!
Track listing
1. Garden Of My Mind
2. Rosalyn
3. Cracked Actor
4. Baby's On Fire
5. Motorhead
6. Communication Breakdown
7. American Woman
8. Right To Decide
9. Milk And Alcohol
10. The Loco-Motion
11. Mississippi Queen
12. Do It
13. Dum Dum Bala Bala Bow Row...Yeah!!
