Robert Calvert - Telekinesis

From the 1986 album Test Tube Conceived.
"I am not at all opposed to scientific progress, but what I am opposed to is the possible misuse of scientific discoveries which is the main danger we face. We are now living in an almost infinitely scientifically possible world.
When you look at the advances that we know have been made already in, say, biology, we have to look very carefully, there have to be very strong controls over what is done with this knowledge. The possibility of creating human beings in test-tubes has been around since the fifties.
What is being made availbale to the public now, I don`t think is necessarily indicative of what actually is availble to scientists in research laboratories who haven`t published their papers yet. The prospects are quite terrifying that a human being can actually be created.....
It seems likely to me that they have already found a way of being able to create human life without the necessity of the womb being involved at all - I am sure they can do that. (...) I think it does fundamentally question what a human being actually is. It enables the possibility of human life being considered to be extremly expendable if it`s extremly creatable.
I mean, if you can create a human being without any trouble at all then why should you worry about getting rid of it. (...) Obviously you can`t say "stop doing this", nobody`s in a position to say that it is absolutely categorically wrong either. This is what`s quite frightening about it - there`s nobody who`s in a form of moral position to judge on this.
Having come this far from escaping religious governings, where do we stand?"

Musicnauts:
Dave Anderson, Martin Holdcroft & Brian Snelling

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Music

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• Hawkwind
• Robert
• Calvert
• Telekinesis

[profbarkingmad]

Heidi, your're the coolest of the cool..!

[HeidiLandRover]

@profbarkingmad Aw - thanks! :-)

[plinkyplonkyman]

Hey. Nice surprise to find this on youtube. I'm Martin Holdcroft (It's not Holdcraft!). And yes, I'm sure Bob would have loved your work.

[HeidiLandRover]

@plinkyplonkyman Thanks for the support! Just doing my bit to help keep Robert's work "out there" What would Robert have made of it all these days? And apologies for getting your name wrong - I've changed it now :-)

[deegee777]

A campaign should be started to get this DVD out if its just lying gathering dust in some vault somewhere. I am sure it would sell well as Bob is still loved by most Hawkwind fans and its a disgrace that no footage exists of this immensely talented performer

[HeidiLandRover]

@sex6cult9revolution Hmmm... I seem to remember Nik saying that one or two of the American shows were filmed, this was a while back though (?late eighties). You have to remember that we're talking about the days before nanotechnology, when filming a concert (or anything for that matter) was a major undertaking. Film cameras in the early seventies were the size of a washing machine :¬)

See TouToob user UnderWraps2, he has some silent footage of The Hawks on his channel.

[sex6cult9revolution]

@HeidiLandRover I was just wondering this myself. There's no footage from the huge Space Ritual tour?! Surely someone must have bootlegged something.

[phillyflu]

NAJS.

[HeidiLandRover]

@deegee777

Yep: write to Voiceprint and Atomhenge (Cherry Red) and ask them to release it. If enough of us ask for it, maybe one of 'em will get their finger out ;¬)