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Review by Jeff Walker, Phonograph Record, May 1972
IT'S BEEN an eternity since I've writhed to a record on a physical level, but I still recall fondly those stoned hours spent engrossed in ...
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 17 January 1976
IT'S ALL A far cry from Alfred Jarry. ...
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The Hawk: sailing in the face of the wind
Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
HAWKWIND ARE the progressive band, who, they say, are too progressive for British progressive clubs, and receive few bookings because of that fact. ...
The Isle of Wight Festival: 5 Days of Peace, Music and Love
Report by Mick Farren, uncredited writer, International Times, 10 September 1970
2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title ...
When It Comes To Mind-Blowing, Hawkwind Are Really Into It
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 17 October 1970
HAWKWIND MAY not be the world's most affluent group, or the world's most successful group, but they are certainly one of the most mind-blowing. ...
Hawkwind: Hawkwind (United Artists)
Review by John Morthland, Creem, November 1971
THE COVER, IN BRILLIANT colors, shows these creatures that seem to be part reptile, part human, and part falling leaves. The songs have titles like ...
The Foulk Brothers: Pop Promoting Blues
Report by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1972
"RONNIE..." RONALD Foulk's secretary broke into the conference. "Will you accept a transfer call from America?" ...
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 5 February 1972
LIKE THEM or not, you must admit that Hawkwind are honest. Guitarist Dave Brock is not loath to admit that most of the band's musicians ...
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 May 1972
Maybe if you're young enough, from a dreary home environment with nothing but a soul destroying future, then maybe you could enjoy a festival like ...
Review by Greg Shaw, Creem, June 1972
Have you ever felt the urge to visit the distant reaches of the galaxy? I don't mean in some freaked-out 2001 Pink Floyd acid trip, ...
Profile and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 30 September 1972
HAWKWIND ARE ONE of the very few "Underground" bands to make the big time almost entirely on their own terms, without any real concessions to ...
Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, The Pretty Things: Windsor Free Festival, Berkshire
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 September 1972
THE SIGNS were there once again at what was in effect just another one-day festival that a bummer was to be had by one and ...
Hawkwind: Cosmic Calypso And Sonic Surprise
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 11 November 1972
UNLESS YOU'RE DEAF, dumb and blind, or alternatively haven't been keeping up with the music press, you will know that Hawkwind embark this week upon ...
Hawkwind: Queensway Hall, Dunstable
Live Review by John Pidgeon, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972
THE SECOND gig of Hawkwind's Space Ritual tour was at the Queensway Hall, Dunstable, last Thursday. The previous night at King's Lynn — the opener ...
Hawkwind: Queensway Hall, Dunstable
Live Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 18 November 1972
ALL ABOARD HAWKWIND'S SPACE RITUAL ...
The Future Will Happen This Year: Space Rock
Overview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, March 1973
RIGHT NOW we're gonna go back, way back, back before there was FM radio, quadrasonic sound, mellotrons, or any of the other futuristic trappings that ...
Stacia, Happy Amazon of the Cosmic Trailways
Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 10 March 1973
"SO THERE I was on the planet Saturn dancing naked with my body painted, and this weird craft loaded with strange degenerates landed near me ...
Review by Chris Rowley, International Times, May 1973
THIS IS THE definitive Hawkwind LP and very definitely their best. Being live it has all the right qualities to bring back memories of twitching ...
Hawkwind: Space Ritual Alive At Liverpool Stadium And Brixton Sundown (United Artists)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 May 1973
WELL, THESE COSMIC tacos ain't about to make you wet yourself, but it's still a fact that, contained on these four sides, are the very ...
Profile and Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
THERE SEEMS to be a general reawakening to the 1967 Summer of Love recently. All of England is agog over Star Trek reruns while 600,000 ...
Hawkwind's Space Ritual and Kosmik Muzak
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Strait, 15 November 1973
AS YOU ALL KNOW, the prime force, the "essence" if you'll permit, of good rock has always been Energy. Rock Energy is created through two ...
Hawkwind: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 27 November 1973
Britain's Hawkwind Gives Earthy Rock The Cosmic Touch ...
Hawkwind: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 29 November 1973
HAWKWIND BROUGHT their Space Ritual to the Academy of Music Sunday night. They should have left it upstairs with all the other garbage orbiting the ...
Hawkwind: Ford Theatre, Detroit
Live Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, January 1974
OF THE MERE six dates Hawkwind had chosen for their American debut tour, it seemed most appropriate to be seeing them in Detroit, the ancestral ...
Hawkwind: Reaching out for higher flings
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 2 February 1974
Hawkwind's Stacia acts it out. Disc's Caroline Boucher writes it down ...
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 13 April 1974
The Hawkwind 1999 party rolls across the plains of America, dealing in cosmic vibes and - more important in the eyes of the Chicago denim ...
Hawkwind: Dorkwind in Dutchland
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 6 July 1974
JUST OVER a year ago I went up to the Cambridge Corn Exchange to get my first ever taste of Hawkwind live. ...
Hawkwind: In The Hall Of The Mountain Grill
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 September 1974
DON'T TELL anybody, but yours adoring thinks that he's finally got this bunch sussed. ...
How Hawkwind fell foul of the revenue men
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
Chris Charlesworth, exclusively covering Hawkwind's American tour for MM, reports on a major setback for the sonic assassins ...
Hawkwind: Hall Of The Mountain Grill (United Artists)
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 7 November 1974
WHEN LAST WE visited our resident space-age hippies (Shakin' Street No. 3), they had completed their lengthy and powerful Space Ritual, exploring what Tom Bingham ...
Hawkwind: The Regular 'Wind Miracle
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 30 November 1974
NEW YORK just doesn't seem to be the place for Hawkwind. ...
Hawkwind: Hall Of The Mountain Grill (United Artists)
Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 19 December 1974
FOR THEIR first four albums, public approval of Hawkwind was in direct proportion to how seriously one considered the music. The question of quality or ...
Hawkwind and Dr Feelgood On Tour
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974
THE START OF a tour is never really any great cause for rejoicing. It's the end of a tour that is usually all fun and ...
Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 16 August 1975
'Loud, raucous, arrogant, fast, city, paranoid, speedfreak rock and roll. But mainly very loud'. That's what Lemmy says Motorhead's music is. Geoff Barton reports ...
Live Review by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 27 December 1975
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY, Uxbridge, is not usually thought of as a centre of aesthetic excellence, but last Wednesday it took on that most difficult of artistic ...
Robert Calvert : How To Pick Up Girls In Paris
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 10 July 1976
The Calvert MethodRobert Calvert, former Hawkwind person, playwright, raconteur, bon viveur, joyeux noel, has just returned from an enjoyable and instructive visit to Paris at ...
Status Quo: Quo Storm The Castle
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 31 July 1976
Rock festivals in Wales always tempt providence, as many a Marley or 10cc fan can attest. But at Cardiff Castle last Saturday, the sun shone ...
Hawkwind: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976
TIGER OPENED to a leaden audience who failed to be moved even by big Nicky Moore, twisting and turning through the vocals like a giant ...
Hawkwind: Coventry Theatre, Coventry
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 25 December 1976
IT'S LIKE trying to resurrect the agonies and ecstasies of the Lysergic communion, putting Hawkwind's Robert Calvert on paper, spinning a yarn from the scattered ...
Pulsating Poets of Sturm und Drang: Robert Calvert and Hawkwind
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Album Tracking, July 1977
"ROCK IS THE literature of this generation". Thus spake Robert Calvert, occasional playwright, self-styled poet, songwriter and lead singer with Hawkwind, the weirdest, most ...
Hawklords: Leisure-Wear Of The Timelords
Report and Interview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 16 December 1978
Actually, BOB CALVERT'S mystic dressing gown is not what this feature's about: what we have here is an appraisal of the new Hawkind, sorry, HAWKLORDS ...
Joy Division, Pil et al: Futurama '79 Festival — Set The Controls For The Squalor Of Leeds
Live Review by Andy Gill, Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 15 September 1979
The World's First Science Fiction Music FestivalWords: Ian Penman and Andy Gill. Pix: Kevin Cummins ...
Hawkwind, Gaye Bikers on Acid et al: Acid Daze, Finsbury Park
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, David Quantick, New Musical Express, 5 September 1987
SPORTS DAY IN HELL ...
Hawkwind: Space Rock with Humor
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 23 November 1990
CULT BANDS tend to suffer the slings and arrows of the non-believers, and Hawkwind, perhaps England's quintessential cult band, knows it better than most. They've ...
Hawkwind: Epoch Eclipse 30th Anniversary Box Set
Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 3 September 1999
HOW DID HAWKWIND GET A REPUTATION as peace-loving hippies? They were a barking mad, space-age fusion of druggy menace and joyous sonic mayhem, and they ...
Book Excerpt by Carol Clerk, Omnibus Press, 2004
Emerging from the hippie heartland of London's Ladbroke Grove in 1969, Hawkwind invented space-rock with a potent, psychedelic mixture of jamming blues, electronica and lights. ...
Ian Abrahams: Hawkwind – Sonic Assassins
Book Review by John Doran, Classic Rock, November 2004
PSYCH-ROCK visionaries Hawkwind have undeniably one of the most interesting stories in rock: paranoia, madness, drugs, fatal road accidents, not to mention startlingly inventive music ...
Hawkwind: Manchester University
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 22 December 2004
THESE PSYCHEDELIC VETERANS' 35-year career is not for the fainthearted. However, the original psych-rockers are showing few signs of slowing down. Surprisingly sprightly founder member ...
Interview by Rahul Shrivastava, bbc.co.uk, May 2005
Hawkwind guitarist Dave Brock put aside his latest space expedition to talk to Rahul Shrivastava about his life as a Psychedelic Warlord. ...
Hawkwind: The Making Of 'Silver Machine'
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, September 2007
Drugs, insanity and a "Chuck Berry riff played backwards"; Hawkwind tell the story of 'Silver Machine', the only Top 3 single ever recorded entirely on ...
Guide by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 27 July 2008
ONE OF BRITISH rock's most enduring hippie institutions, Hawkwind formed in 1969 and staked their claim as heroes of the counterculture by playing a free ...
Everything Louder: Remembering Lemmy
Retrospective by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages, 31 December 2015
EVERY MOTÖRHEAD concert I can recall began with these words from Lemmy: "We are Motörhead and we play rock 'n' roll." So simple, so succinct, ...
Retrospective by Adam Blake, Rock's Backpages, October 2022
SO, IN A FIT of nostalgia for my old Ladbroke Grove stomping ground, I spent rather more money than I anticipated picking up a first ...
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