In the 17 years since its auspicious start, plenty has happened to Spacehog—some of it not so great. And still, the group’s new release, As It Is On Earth (Hog Space), carries on almost as if there were no gaping 12 years of dead air since the 2001 release of the band’s last album, The Hogyssey. As It Is On Earth displays none of the derivative Bowie/T.Rex laziness of its predecessor, while harnessing manageable doses of the antsy experimental energy that fueled Resident Alien’s expansive 1998 follow-up, The Chinese Album. Spacehog frontman Royston Langdon will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on the band.
Royston Langdon: I’ve always loved photography and subsequently admire and even collect important photographs. One such discovery happened about 10 years ago again wandering in the west end of London. I love the Photographers’ Gallery there, and I was lucky enough to come across an exhibition of a Swiss photographer, Karlheinz Weinberger. Living in Zurich and working in a factory, he documented when he could from the late ’50s right through to the early ’90s the biker scene there. Obviously, these communities were very influenced by the American culture of the time; however, there is a sweetness and beauty that Weinberger captures that to me isn’t present in the more famous American documentarian photographers of these times.
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