Hawkwind started out with one clear musical aim: to create the sights, sounds and sensations of an acid trip, so that the audience could share the experience without the help of any drugs. In 2008, ...

“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 ...

Space-rock legends Hawkwind have released a new album Take Me To Your Leader. Founder member Dave Brock is still at the helm. Bassist and keyboard player Alan Davey, who comes from Ipswich, has been ...

Nor did he imagine that an underground psychedelic band renowned for weird electronic effects and using fewer chords than Status Quo would end up with a catalogue of more than 50 albums still largely ...

The British geezers in Hawkwind regularly go out of fashion, eclipsed at various times by disco, punk, synth-pop and grunge. Just now, however, they’re enjoying a resurgence, thanks to the ...

The ‘X In Search Of Space’-era Hawkwind in 1971, before Lemmy came on board As 1972 unfolded, Lemmy – a guitarist-turned-bassist who approached his newly adopted four-string instrument as though he ...

“We’re standing on the edge, on the edge of time. And it is dark, so dark on the edge of time, and we’re tired of making love.” So intones Hawkwind’s premier nasal-voiced woodwind player and resident ...