The cynical response to the release of yet another Hawkwind live album – at least their fifth since 2015 – is to wave a dismissive hand as if wafting away a hippie’s morning-after lentil curry fart.
“People look back now and think of Hawkwind as this sort of hippie peace and love group. But it was never that,” says Lemmy, one of the band’s original self-styled ‘captains.’ “We weren’t looking for ...
Back in ’69 Dave Brock actually played the Royal Albert Hall – busking the main stage as part of the Pop Proms – but Hawkwind were not a band that the venue would actually encourage to play there.
Nonetheless, Hall of the Mountain Grill didn’t chart high – in the UK, it peaked at 16 in late September 1974: when Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge and Tubular Bells were at numbers one and two ...
“Silver Machine” was not followed-up in trusted music biz fashion by another hit-seeking single but by the band’s third album, late November’s Doremi Fasol Latido, and an end-of-year tour which was ...
Hawkwind frontman Dave Brock has opened up about how his former bandmate, the late guitarist Lemmy, handled being fired after the band grew fed up with his drug-fuelled antics. Lemmy, born Ian Fraser ...
With Everything You Need to Know About Hawkwind, we take you inside a band that represented the flip side of psychedelia -- far away from the peace, love and flowers adopted by so many from the era.
It's one of the hottest days of summer, and the sound of space rock is throbbing across the Devon countryside. In a converted farm building, veteran rockers Hawkwind are rehearsing for a string of ...
Hawkwind released what many fans consider their finest album, Doremi Fasol Latido, on Nov 24, 1972. Though merely a footnote in the U.S., Hawkwind are legendary among fans of underground rock 'n' roll ...
The spirit of Hawkwind lands at Come & Take It Live this weekend in the form of the North American Space Ritual 2019, a Saturday/Sunday load-in organized by Athens, GA., superfan Matt Callen.