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.

Space rock legends Hawkwind have announced that they will release their 37th studio album, There Is No Space For Us, through ...

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 had already been through a long list of band members, trials, tribulations, drugs and general disarray by the end of the '70s. With nine studio LPs and one definitive double live album behind ...