{"id":3760,"date":"2008-12-05T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/05\/the-sonic-assassins\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T01:23:14","slug":"the-sonic-assassins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/05\/the-sonic-assassins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sonic Assassins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/assassins1_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/assassins1.jpg\" alt=\"assassins1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Searching through discs for scans of Jim Cawthorn art turned up this comic strip curio from a November 29th, 1971 issue of UK underground magazine <em>Frendz<\/em>. Cawthorn and writer Michael Moorcock present rock band Hawkwind as musical superheroes and although this is done largely as a promotional piece for that year&#8217;s new album, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_Search_of_Space\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In Search of Space<\/em><\/a>, the Sonic Assassins tag was one which stuck, becoming almost a secondary name for the band in later years. The name Void City also recurred later as the name of a track on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Choose_Your_Masques\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Choose Your Masques<\/em><\/a> album. It may have been around this time that Cawthorn painted special T-shirt designs for Hawkwind; up to 1980 Dave Brock was still wearing his Baron Meliadus shirt on stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/assassins2_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/assassins2.jpg\" alt=\"assassins2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/04\/jim-cawthorn-1929-2008\/\">Jim Cawthorn, 1929\u20132008<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/10\/27\/design-as-virus-7-eyes-and-triangles\/\">Design as virus #7: eyes and triangles<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/20\/barney-bubbles-artist-and-designer\/\">Barney Bubbles: artist and designer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching through discs for scans of Jim Cawthorn art turned up this comic strip curio from a November 29th, 1971 issue of UK underground magazine Frendz. Cawthorn and writer Michael Moorcock present rock band Hawkwind as musical superheroes and although this is done largely as a promotional piece for that year&#8217;s new album, In Search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/05\/the-sonic-assassins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sonic Assassins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9,48,43,3,20],"tags":[86,2301,222,65],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-music","category-science-fiction","tag-barney-bubbles","tag-dave-brock","tag-hawkwind","tag-michael-moorcock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-YE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}