Hurry on Sundown

Infobox Single
Name = Hurry On Sundown


Type = Single
Artist = Hawkwind
from Album = Hawkwind
B-side = "Mirror Of Illusion"
Recorded = Trident Studios, March 1970
Released = 26 June 1970
Format = 7" Vinyl record
Genre = Space Rock
Length = 4:50
Label = Liberty Records
Writer = Dave Brock
Producer = Dick Taylor
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single =
This single = "Hurry On Sundown"
(1970)
Next single = "Silver Machine"
(1972)Infobox Single
Name = Hawkwind Zoo EP


Type = EP
Artist = Hawkwind
from Album =
A-side = "Hurry On Sundown"
B-side = "Sweet Mistress of Pain"; "Kings of Speed"
Recorded = Abbey Road Studios, 1969; Olympic Studios, January 1975
Released = May 1, 1981
Format = 12" Vinyl record
Genre = Space Rock
Length =
Label = Flicknife - FLEP100
Writer = Dave Brock
Producer = Don Poole
Certification =
Chart position =
Reviews =
Last single =
This single = "Hawkwind Zoo EP"
(1981)
Next single = "Motorhead" (outtake)
(1982)

"Hurry On Sundown" is a 1970 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind. It was originally released as a single in the UK (LBF15382) on 26 June 1970, being an edit of the version that appeared on the album Hawkwind.

Hawkwind Zoo EP

Towards the end of 1969, still using the name Hawkwind Zoo and with Mick Slattery as the lead guitarist, the band were given studio time by Don Poole to record some demos. "Hurry On Sundown" was one of the tracks recorded, this version being more electric and psychedelic than the acoustic folky feel of the album version. The recording was eventually released in 1981 as the first of a host of archive material issued through Flicknife Records.

Another previously unheard track recorded at the same session, "Sweet Mistress of Pain" (also known as "Kiss of the Velvet Whip"), was included on the B-side, as was an alternate vesion of the 1975 single "Kings of Speed". The two original Hawkwind Zoo demos were eventually included on the remasters version of the "Hawkwind" debut album with a third, a cover of Pink Floyd's "Cymbaline".

BBC Session

The band recorded a version at Maida Vale Stduios on August 18, 1970 for broadcast on the BBC Radio programme Top Gear on September 19, 1970. Poor quality recordings of this session were first released, without the BBC's permission, on "The Text of Festival" in 1983, then on various subsequent compilations. No official clean version of this track has ever been released.

Cover Versions

*Magic Mushroom Band - "RU Spaced Out 2" (1993)
*The Petals - "Assassins of Silence / Hundred-Watt Violence" (1995)
*Kula Shaker - "Sound Of Drums" single (Hari Om Sundown) (1998)
*Sam Roberts Band - live [http://www.sugartune.com/media/sam_roberts/sam_hawkwind_web.mov Spokane, WA]
*Vetiver - "Thing Of The Past" (2008)