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Live Seventy Nine is a 1980 live album by Hawkwind recorded on their Winter 1979 UK tour. It reached #15 on the UK album chart. This is a reconstituted Hawkwind with Brock, Bainbridge and King emerging from the dissolved Hawklords, joined by lead guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton who had played on the debut album Hawkwind and keyboardist Tim Blake who was a long-standing friend of the band and had played on Gong's Radio Gnome trilogy. The new line-up debuted at the first Futurama Festival at Queens Hall, Leeds on 9 September, then completed a 25-date UK tour in November and December with support from Doll by Doll, despite not having a record deal nor any product to promote, and ended the year at London's Electric Ballroom on 28 and 29 December with support from The Psychedelic Furs. The shows included Blake's collaborator from his Crystal Machine shows, the light artist Patrice Warrener using lasers. although the band would encounter resistance from council Health and Safety inspectors concerned at the potential harm the lasers posed to the audience, Bainbridge even claiming to have locked one such official in a cupboard to prevent his intervention. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Se...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)