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Hawkwind: Space Ritual Tour, 1972

by Joe Banks
September 10, 2020

We’re setting the dials for 1972 and the futuristic multimedia explosion of Hawkwind’s Space Ritual tour

Upon the release of their eponymous debut album in 1970, Hawkwind were immediately described by the press as being makers of “electronic music”. Despite the record being a slightly curious mix of folk blues and barbarian psychedelia, and still some way from the classic space rock sound they would become renowned for, it was the unruly electronic whooshes, shrieks and howls punctuating their songs that caught the ear, and marked Hawkwind out as an alien presence on the UK music scene.

Band leader Dave Brock, who has acknowledged the early influence of US electro-psych pioneers such as Silver Apples and Fifty Foot Hose, had initially experimented with tape loops of old blues harmonica recordings fed through a Binson Echorec echo machine. But when his friend Richard Michael Davies, aka DikMik, turned up to a rehearsal with a strange piece of electronic equipment, subsequently revealed to be a signal generator for testing radio valves, a less cumbersome and more mobile way of injecting eerie tonalities into the group’s music was discovered.

Running his “audio generator” through a series of effects boxes, most importantly a Watkins Copicat, DikMik created what saxophonist and frontman Nik Turner has called “the sound of Hawkwind”. Music fans at the time might have previously encountered the relatively sedate vibes of early electronic instruments such as the Mellotron and the Moog, but they were entirely unprepared for the raw, sometimes violent frequencies produced by DikMik’s primitive rig. Early gig reviews describe members of the audience being physically sick as a result of the electronic bombardment.

By 1972, Hawkwind were the biggest cult outfit in Britain, kings of the underground with a fanatical following. They’d also recruited former roadie and soundman Del Dettmar to their ranks to handle the latest addition to their electronic armoury, an EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which Dettmar used to process the band’s instruments onstage. But everything changed when the interstellar boogie of ‘Silver Machine’, with its squiggly, radiophonic intro, became a massive hit single in the UK, going on to eventually sell over a million copies.

‘Silver Machine’ supplied the financial leverage for Hawkwind to create their most ambitious and extensive tour yet, an immersive multimedia presentation they called the “Space Ritual”. Robert Calvert, the band’s visionary poet and conceptualist, described the planned show as depicting the dreams of a group of starfarers in suspended animation: “It’s a mythological approach to what’s happening today… the mythology of the space age, in the way that rocket ships and interplanetary travel are a parallel with the heroic voyages of man in earlier times.”

Various ideas were mooted for the staging, which included touring the show like a circus in an inflatable plastic tent. More outlandishly, it was suggested that Del Dettmar should be seated on a revolving tower above the heads of the crowd. Visual designer Barney Bubbles got in on the act too, producing a set of metallic speaker cabinets and positioning the band onstage according to the Pythagorean musical scale.

The Space Ritual tour would also see the mounting of a truly innovative light show in an era when basic follow spots were the norm. The group’s semi-regular lighting crew of Mike Hart and Alan Day were joined by scene veteran Jonathan Smeeton, who regarded Hawkwind as the perfect musical counterpoint to his increasingly ambitious effects, such as using multiple projectors to produce animated loops and sending Marvel’s Silver Surfer skittering over the band’s heads. Coming together as Liquid Len And The Lensmen, the groundbreaking spectacle they created became a defining part of the Space Ritual experience.

Another key element was the trio of dancers who acted as a lightning rod for the music. Hawkwind’s regular visual interpreter, the statuesque and often naked Stacia, was joined by the sylphlike Miss Renée, who had previously danced with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and was described by Sounds magazine as “a space fairy, frozen at perhaps 10 frames a second, [doing] a futuristic parody of the can-can across the line of the strobe”. The trio was completed by mime artist Tony Crerar, with all three making multiple costume changes throughout the show.

To build anticipation on the night, every member of the audience received a joss stick and a free programme containing lyrics and Robert Calvert’s tongue-in-cheek ‘An Extract from the Saga of Doremi Fasol Latido’, wherein Hawkwind are depicted as spacelords returning to Earth to save the planet from itself, the millenarian mythology that the group wove around itself being another essential part of their appeal. And if that wasn’t enough, the group had Andy Dunkley, their resident DJ, to act as master of ceremonies, leading the countdown while playing Terry Riley’s ‘A Rainbow In Curved Air’. Dunkley would also occasionally play in Stockhausen records when the electronics were malfunctioning.

It was the music that was the most extraordinary part of the Space Ritual – a seamless, near-two hour set of deep space psychedelia, cosmic electronics and science fiction poetry that pushed the crowd to its limits. For every propulsive slab of riffarama, such as ‘Born To Go’ and ‘Orgone Accumulator’, there were unearthly bleeps and washes of white noise from DikMik and Dettmar, sometimes backing Calvert’s apocalyptic readings – most famously on the public information parody ‘Sonic Attack’ – and sometimes as compositions in their own right, such as the jagged, archly-titled ‘Electronic No 1’.

The Space Ritual tour commenced at the King’s Lynn Corn Exchange on 8 November 1972 and ended on 30 December at the Brixton Sundown (now the Academy). Thousands of fans attended every night of this nationwide 32-date jaunt, with one recalling, “This certainly wasn’t a bunch of acid head hippies playing drippy post-1968 rock, it was an aural and visual assault that left you blown away”. For many, the ‘Space Ritual’ album, a vinyl document of the London and Liverpool gigs, remains the greatest live record ever released.

With their freaky dancers, synapse-frazzling lights and hypnotic, bass-heavy sounds, the Space Ritual shows were arguably the UK’s earliest raves. What’s certain is that this would have been the first time that provincial heads were turned on by the visceral power of electronics in a live setting. The Space Ritual was an unforgettable experience, for some literally life-changing, and a signpost to the future, when a whole new generation gathered en masse to be transported by driving, repetitive beats and trippy, acidic frequencies.

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“People come up to us after gigs and say our music terrified them." The saga of Hawkwind's Space Ritual

After blasting out of the underground via the acid-laced rocket fuel of Silver Machine, Hawkwind created a spectacular multimedia live show unlike anything seen or heard before: the Space Ritual

"Dim visions smoked his brain. Pictures of people standing and screaming and a band playing loud shrieking metal music…" – Extract from The Saga Of Doremi Latido Fasol

It’s November 1972, and something extraordinary is happening in the sleepy Norfolk market town of King’s Lynn. The Corn Exchange venue is packed to the rafters with East Anglian heads and freaks, along with the local chapter of Hells Angels and a smattering of terrified teenyboppers.

It’s the first night of Hawkwind ’s Space Ritual tour, an event that’s been trailed by the band for more than a year now. It’s the culmination of three years of intense gigging around Britain and Europe, a multimedia sci-fi spectacular featuring dancers, space-age poetry, the most ambitious lights and visuals show on the circuit, and more than two hours of continuous, mind-expanding music.

This was the year that David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust and incorporated mime and kabuki theatre into his shows; the year that Peter Gabriel started to recite strange stories between Genesis songs and wear a fox head and dress onstage; the year that Pink Floyd first experimented with quadraphonic concert speakers and played gigs with a ballet company.

Yet none of these innovations rivalled the sheer visceral, multicolour trip of the Space Ritual . It was unlike anything experienced before in the nation’s provincial music halls, a gathering of the underground tribes with Hawkwind as their cosmic spirit guides – not just a show, but yes, a ritual as well.

The Space Ritual tour is one of the great highlights of Hawkwind’s ongoing 53 years-and-counting mission to the outer reaches of space rock, with the Space Ritual album – released in May 1973 and regularly touted as the greatest live record of all time – their highest-charting LP. But the story of the Space Ritual had begun 18 months before at the tail-end of 1971 with the release of the band’s second album, In Search Of Space .

An integral part of that album was its unique design, which featured a die-cut sleeve that opened up to reveal inside The Hawkwind Log , a 24-page booklet telling the disjointed story of the “spacecraft Hawkwind” and its journey to save the Earth. The man behind this startling package was Barney Bubbles , who would go on to produce a complete visual identity for Hawkwind, while the writer of the …Log was poet and conceptualist Robert Calvert , who officially joined the band as their irregular frontman following ISOS ’s release.

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Both men were absolutely key to the formulation of the Space Ritual , with ISOS being just the first chapter of their recasting of Hawkwind as mankind’s musical saviours from the stars, psychedelic freedom fighters inhabiting a science fictional universe. And it wasn’t long before their thoughts turned to how this developing mythos could be incorporated into Hawkwind’s live performances. The band’s shows were already becoming legendary for their immersive, trance-inducing quality, but Calvert in particular was interested in turning them into a new type of rock theatre – or rather, space opera.

Talking to Melody Maker in November ’71, he said: “The basic idea of the opera – for want of a better word – is that a team of starfarers are in a coma, a state of suspended animation, and the opera is a presentation of the dreams that they’re having in deep space. It’s a mythological approach to what’s happening today… the mythology of the space age, in the way that rocket ships and interplanetary travel are a parallel with the heroic voyages of man in earlier times.”

Speaking at the same time to NME , anarchic saxophonist Nik Turner had already embraced the idea. “I don’t think our music had a real direction until Bob got this space odyssey together,” he observed. “It was just freaky, with us enjoying ourselves. The album [ ISOS ] was a coming together of ideas and the odyssey is a progression from that… Just tell people to come have their minds ripped apart!”

While also a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy, bandleader Dave Brock was more concerned at this point with the latter sentiment, Hawkwind having definitively progressed from wanting to “levitate minds in a nice way” (as the sleeve notes to their first album stated) to becoming the sonic equivalent of “a black fucking nightmare” (as Lemmy memorably put it). In the same NME piece, Brock said, “People come up to us after gigs and say our music terrified them. Because they can’t cope with it, they get frightened… I think if we had more time to get it together, we could induce mass hypnosis in an audience. I’d certainly like to experiment with that.”

However, time to get things together was at a premium as 1972 dawned, with the Space Ritual concept put on the back burner as Hawkwind prepared to take on their busiest year yet. It would eventually see them playing more than 150 gigs, their commitment to bringing their unique brand of countercultural ramalama to every corner of the country (not to mention mainland Europe) undimmed.

But while they were playing bigger venues and pulling ever larger crowds, Hawkwind’s roots as a community band were still strong, and it was at a benefit gig at London’s Roundhouse in February that the next step towards turning the Space Ritual into reality was taken.

Even by the underground’s standards, the Greasy Truckers Party was a shambolic affair, with the sold-out show interrupted halfway through by a power cut, which necessitated the venue being cleared for a couple of hours. When the audience returned, its size had swelled considerably. Doug Smith, Hawkwind’s manager at the time, remembers: “The place was packed. People sitting two to a seat or on each other’s laps, and obviously over capacity. I persuaded those in charge to let them all remain if we got them all to squeeze up – I think they realised that if they tried to clear out the extra people, there’d be a riot!”

In the meantime, Hawkwind had prepared for their performance by getting completely off their heads, with the cocktail of speed, downers and acid favoured by Lemmy and electronics berserker DikMik proving to be particularly debilitating. The power was also still playing up, which meant that one of the band’s roadies had to manually hold the main breaker switch open throughout the gig to keep the electricity on.

Despite these challenges, Hawkwind managed to deliver a surprisingly cogent set, with two tracks – Master Of The Universe and Born To Go – recorded and released on the subsequent Greasy Truckers Party LP, a limited-edition album that quickly sold out and became a much sought-after collectors’ item. Yet these weren’t the most important recordings from the show.

Over the past couple of months, a new song had entered Hawkwind’s live set that Doug Smith had already earmarked as a potential single – its title was Silver Machine . The version of it recorded at the Greasy Truckers show was rough and ready, with Calvert often missing the microphone and garbling his words, but it had an undeniable energy.

Smith held it back and reworked it with the band at Morgan Studios. Andrew Lauder, then head of A&R at the band’s label United Artists, remembers: “Doug pretty much did [the single] off his own bat. He came in with a tape after it’d been worked on in the studio, and said, ‘Have a listen to this.’ And I said, ‘Jesus, what have you done?!’”

Silver Machine was transformed from a loose cosmic jam into a monumental slab of sci-fi boogie, the post-production cladding its fuselage in steel and mounting a new engine on each wing. But key to its success was the replacement of Calvert’s wayward vocal with an imperious revoicing from Lemmy , bellowing the opening ‘I!’ like a man asserting his will to power.

Lemmy maintained he was only allowed to do the vocal after everybody else had had a go, but Nik Turner told a different version of this story: “Lemmy claimed that everybody else was tried, and then he got the job. It’s actually bullshit. Lemmy was a person who was very forceful and pushy because he took a lot of speed. He got the job because he elbowed everybody else out the way! But I was happy with Lemmy’s rendition, it was actually very good, more the right shape for a pop song.”

And incredibly enough, a pop song was how Silver Machine was received when it was released as a single in June 1972. As the new release from the biggest cult band in Britain, it immediately started selling to Hawkwind’s legion of fans, but when it got on BBC Radio 1’s playlist, things really started to happen, with regular spins from establishment DJs such as Tony Blackburn and Jimmy Young. Even more incredible – certainly as far as the underground commentariat was concerned – a film of the band performing the song live was used to promote the single on primetime chart show Top Of The Pops .

Silver Machine was a bona fide phenomenon, with its appearances on TOTP in particular opening up a portal from countercultural west London into every front room in Britain, a televisual rallying cry for nascent heads and freaks around the country. Peaking for two weeks at No.3 in the hit parade, it remained on the chart for over three months, and eventually went on to sell a million copies around the world.

Silver Machine was also vital as the spark that finally lit the touchpaper of the Space Ritual , with the money it generated providing the financial muscle necessary for planning and preparations to begin, with UA also giving them an additional advance. One of the first things it enabled Hawkwind to do was finally buy some proper transport – a Mercedes van for the equipment and crew, and a Mercedes tour bus for the band.

There wasn’t any danger of the band’s new-found fame and money turning them into rock’n’roll superstars, however. On the contrary, Dave Brock was keen to stress that their credentials as a ‘people’s band’ remained strong. Speaking to Sounds , he said, “We’re not involved in the music business at all. We’re still doing exactly the same things, seeing the same people, still living round the ’Gate. There’s so much shit involved in the music business… We’re on the fringes [of it], like having a record contract, but only as long as we can do what we want to do.”

His response to the success of Silver Machine was also ambivalent, while still acknowledging that the demographic of the band’s fans – many of whom would go on to be the core audience for the Space Ritual – was changing. “It’s a bit of a drag because all the heads who used to come and see us usually turn up late, because they’re completely out of it, and of course now they can’t get in,” he said. “It’s good in a way too, because the average age of our audience has dropped to 14 or 15, and they probably get turned on to new things when they come to one of our gigs.”

The raising of the band’s profile post- Silver Machine led to two major shows. In August ’72, they played a prestigious headline gig at the Rainbow Theatre in London’s Finsbury Park, where free food was given out to all attendees. Unfortunately, the communal vibe was somewhat wrecked by 600 fans – presumably some of Brock’s latecomers – storming the barriers of the sold-out venue and forcing their way inside.

And in September, Hawkwind played the Oval cricket ground with Frank Zappa – in fact, the band came on after Zappa in the evening so their light show could be seen in its full glory. Doug Smith remembers: “They tried to turn the power off because Zappa had run over, and I stood in front of the generator with a hammer. The promoters had to get the police to remove me, and they said, ‘We’re not going to remove him, you should have organised your event better!’”

In the meantime, preparations for the staging of the Space Ritual tour continued apace. Smith continues, “Logistics were down to me, along with keeping the happy-go-lucky bunch focused! I had the first planning meeting with Barney Bubbles at my flat in Acton. We decided he would put a schedule together, covering design and marketing, as well as organising the building and painting of the backline.”

Various ideas were mooted, including touring the show like a circus in an inflatable plastic tent. More outlandishly, it was suggested that synthesist Del Dettmar be seated on a revolving tower above the heads of the audience. Yet as the tour approached, Dave Brock told Sounds , “It’s coming along slowly, but there’s so much work. You don’t realise how much until you start. Our normal number of people on the road is 16, but with this we’ll need 24, and they’ve all got to be paid. When I see it all written down, I tend to freak out, because apart from all that, we’ve got to get it all together musically too.”

The expanded road crew that Brock refers to included a new lightshow team. Mike Hart and Alan Day of Proteus Lights – who had been working on and off with Hawkwind for the previous two years – were joined on the Space Ritual tour by Jonathan Smeeton, a veteran of hippie club Middle Earth and the Roundhouse. Smeeton brought a collection of ambitious lighting effects to the party, using multiple slide projectors to create crude but effective animated loops. Coming together as Liquid Len and the Lensmen, Smeeton, Hart and Day developed a groundbreaking spectacle that would become another defining aspect of the Space Ritual experience.

While Brock was worried about the nuts and bolts of putting the show together, Robert Calvert and Barney Bubbles were more concerned with the philosophy behind it.

Some commentators in the press had already noted that Hawkwind had developed a dedicated, even militant, fanbase who regarded the band as revolutionary heralds of an alternative lifestyle rather than just entertainment. Calvert was happy to expand on this idea to NME : “All generations have had some sort of revolutionary feeling in them, but this is the first that isn’t based on any political ideals. Consequently, it’s the job of the musician to put these feelings into music that people can recognise. Our gigs seem to get into a very ritualistic, tribal thing where people come to lose their personal identity and expand their consciousness collectively.”

Bubbles was even more committed to the mystical element of the upcoming shows, writing a ‘manual’ for the press that previewed his ideas. “The basic principle for the Space Ritual is based on the Pythagorean concept of sound,” it said. “Briefly, this conceived the universe to be an immense monochord, with its single string stretched between absolute spirit and absolute matter. Along this string were positioned the planets of our solar system. Each of these spheres as it rushed through space was believed to sound a certain tone caused by its continuous displacement of the ether. These intervals and harmonies are called ‘The Sound Of The Spheres…’”

As Doug Smith recalled, “Barney sent me a neatly handwritten schedule that included a couple of plans of arched spherical curves of the music and light lines crossing. He told me that if the band got it right with the lights and music onstage, they would take off!”

Nik Turner remembered similarly: “Barney conceived the whole stage show, where he took the astrological signs of people in the band and used the corresponding colours to position them on the stage. Our equipment was set up to correspond with Barney’s plan. Nobody was going round with a tape measure saying, ‘Stand here!’ but we tried to emulate what Barney had laid out.

“Barney designed the actual equipment as well, the speakers were supposed to be on these flexible bases so they could jump up and down! Barney had a total concept, and I helped him. At the time, Robert was having a nervous breakdown and wasn’t available to make any sort of decisions. So I worked with Barney on these stage production and design ideas, and choreographing the dancers, and I was very excited to be involved.”

The dancers that Turner refers to were another key element of the Space Ritual presentation, acting as human lightning rods for the music and a point of focus for the audience. Hawkwind’s regular visual interpreter, the statuesque and often naked Stacia , was joined by the sylph-like Miss Renée, a 20-year-old American who had previously danced with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane . Also present onstage for the first few gigs was John May, a writer for underground newspaper Frendz , who was subsequently replaced by mime artist Tony Crerar.

Of course, in parallel with organising the tour, there was the small matter of recording Hawkwind’s next album. Wisely, the band decided to do it at Rockfield Studios. Situated in the South Wales countryside, Rockfield was a relatively basic facility then, but had the advantage of being as far away as possible from the distractions of Ladbroke Grove. The seclusion clearly worked, with the album quickly recorded during two sessions in September ’72.

Titled Doremi Fasol Latido , a punning reference to the Pythagorean scale, the album was originally intended to act as a ‘preview’ of the Space Ritual tour, with nearly all of its songs featured in the set. However, problems at UA’s pressing plants put paid to that, and it wasn’t actually released until the tour was well underway. But given the strength of the material, this almost certainly wasn’t an issue for the majority of fans.

In Search Of Space may have pioneered Hawkwind’s propulsive, trance rock sound, but it’s positively airy compared to the pounding oblivion of DFL, like black treacle oozing from the speakers: Brainstorm is a dense, muggy blast of exhaust fumes and amphetamine acceleration; Lord Of Light is a groovy galactic chug; Time We Left This World Today is a mind-stomping call-and-response number.

The 32-date Space Ritual tour – which saw Hawkwind repeatedly criss-crossing the UK, from Aberdeen in the north to Exeter in the south – finally got underway on Wednesday November 8, 1972 in King’s Lynn.

As a band with a reputation for narcotic indulgence, the attention of the local drug squad was always a problem, as Doug Smith recalls. “I remember the King’s Lynn gig well. [Road manager] John the Bog had nicked some roller skates from a previous gig in Cambridge, and then produced them from the truck at King’s Lynn, where I joined him skating around the venue. A few minutes after, the police arrived. Everyone disappeared, leaving Del and DikMik doing their subsonic thing onstage, which sent the sniffer dog crazy! John skated up to the Inspector to introduce himself as Crew Chief and as he was speaking, dropped his stash in a bin right next to the inspector! He collected it later in the evening once the police had left.”

To build anticipation each night, every audience member received a joss stick and a free programme containing lyrics and the tongue-in-cheek Extract From The Saga Of Doremi Fasol Latido , wherein Hawkwind are depicted as spacelords returning to Earth to enforce peace. Before their entrance onstage, resident DJ Andy Dunkley would lead the audience in a countdown. But nothing could adequately prepare them for what was to come.

The band’s new backline of 2,500 watt stacks blew the PA in King’s Lynn, which meant that at subsequent dates, including the following night at Dunstable’s Civic Hall, the band were forced to use only one of the stacks. But that didn’t diminish the synapse-frazzling impact that the Space Ritual presentation had on the audience, judging by reports from this show.

With its distinctive ‘flying saucer’ roof, the Civic Hall had been the venue where the Silver Machine promo was shot, and given its relative proximity to London, the Dunstable date was chosen to be press night for representatives from all the major music papers. The frustrating paucity of live Hawkwind films taken during the 1970s means that, other than a few photographs, their reviews remain the best depiction of just how amazing the Space Ritual shows sounded and looked, and how powerfully they affected the audience.

For Martin Hayman at Sounds , both sound and vision were overwhelming: “Spidery figures wield guitars and crash drums in the flickering half-light at the end of the hall, packed with a dense mass of people, a sort of freaks’ convention… The throbbing bass hits the base of the spine like a subliminal battering ram, the high frequencies from the synthesiser and the sax attack the front of the head, the flashing lights that frame one second the ancient mysterious shrine of Stonehenge, the next the Hawkwind insignia, disintegrate into sharp geometrical edges and shadows.”

For John Pidgeon at NME , “The audience reacted physically to each mood created onstage, [and] became part of the spectacle. Whenever the stage gave off electronic pulsations, the crowd became uneasy, restless, perturbed; when the characteristic heavy metal riffs started up, the sense of relief was physically manifest, the audience on their feet with tendril arms swaying above their heads. The lights were directed behind the band onto a screen where a montage of meteorological, astronomical, sonic and electronic images flashed, and in front onto the three dancers…

“The effect on the band, obscured between this sandwich of light, was to eliminate individuality in the same way as their music does. Solos do not remain in the mind, instead a combined force of the incredible.”

Martin Marriott at Disc contrasted Hawkwind’s performance with standard rock gigs: “Here was a band which had created a unique situation. No cries of, ‘Rock’n’roll’, no billiard cues flailing, just good feelings and peace signs… From the first twitterings and rumblings of the set, every person there was totally involved in the Ritual … By the end, 2,000 people were up on their feet, arms over heads, clapping. To say that the audience left satisfied would be this year’s understatement.”

It was a sentiment echoed by Record Mirror : “The group’s performance was nothing short of sensational… [When] the band left the stage, five minutes of solid stamping continued until Hawkwind returned and smashed the collective skull with a riotous version of Silver Machine merging into You Shouldn’t Do That , its insistent beat and breathless chant whipping 2,000 spaced-out lunatics into a final ecstasy of whirling and shouting.”

Despite being 50 years ago now, the memories of many fans who attended the Space Ritual shows remain vivid. “I was fortunate to see the Space Ritual at Middlesbrough Town Hall,” recalls Grahame Lake. “This certainly wasn’t a bunch of acid-head hippies playing drippy post-60s rock. It was an aural and visual assault that left you blown away. The vacant looks on everyone’s faces as they left highlighted how exhausting and brutal these concerts were.” Pete Zabulis saw them in Derby: “I’d never seen anything like it before!” and Ian Whittaker speaks for many when he says, “The Blackburn gig set me off on a lifelong journey.” Meanwhile, Adam Jones, who saw them in Newcastle, comments on the legendary volume of these shows: “My ears have only just recovered – it certainly cleared the fog on the Tyne!”

Traversing the country inevitably led to occasional logistics issues. As John May recalls, “The tour bus broke down on the way from Leeds to Bristol, and we had to hire three taxis from Birmingham, travelling in a high-speed convoy to the Bristol gig, and arriving late, with the audience in a frenzy. The front of the stage was so low that people were mobbing us!”

But tragedy struck after the Norwich gig, when the van containing John the Bog – real name John Burroughs – was involved in a collision on the outskirts of London. He was flung from the vehicle and died immediately.

It was always the plan that the Space Ritual show would be recorded for future release, with the performances at Liverpool Stadium and London’s Brixton Sundown – the tour’s final show on December 30 – used for the eventual album. (The Sunderland Locarno show was also recorded, but there was a problem with the tape.) Doug Smith has bittersweet memories of Brixton: “At the end of the show, Nik went onstage and thanked everybody, what a great tour, and then he comes off stage and passes me and says, ‘Oh shit, I forgot you!’ I was a bit miffed – fucking hell, I’d put it all together!”

Insult to injury then ensued. “We were all going to meet up somewhere to have an end-of-tour party. Marianne and Lisa, two girls who were staying with me at the time, had booked a late night bar and were going to call me when they got there to give me the address. So Dave and I went back to my place in Acton to dump everything, planning to get a cab back to wherever the party was. But there was no call… We sat there until four in the morning smoking joints and becoming very pissed off. Then Marianne and Lisa walked in: ‘Great party!’”

With Silver Machine playing over the end credits of the Christmas Day edition of Top Of The Pops , 1972 had been an astonishing year for Hawkwind, seeing the band emerge from the underground to become one of the hottest names on the British music scene. And 1973 would be another big year for them. In February, they played a gig at Wandsworth Prison in London, Smith having somehow convinced the Home Office that a sustained blast of anti-establishment space rock was what the inmates needed to aid their rehabilitation. In March, they became one of the few major bands at the time to play Belfast in Northern Ireland.

In May, the rest of the world got to hear what the Space Ritual shows had sounded like with the release of Space Ritual , the album. Coming in another eye-popping, Barney Bubbles-designed sleeve, it remains the only Hawkwind album to break into the UK Top 10, peaking at No.9 in the charts.

From the eerie electronics of Earth Calling through to the warp speed crescendo of Master Of The Universe , Space Ritual i s like no other live record released at the time or since. Its dense, gravity-sucking sound is as black as the cosmic void itself, the immersive intensity of the experience grabbing hold of the listener and refusing to let go. Born To Go ’s brutal, cyclical riff pummels the air, a thrilling exercise in velocity and propulsion; Orgone Accumulator is a hip-swivelling, foot-stomping slab of space-age biker boogie; Brainstorm is Hawkwind ram-raiding the doors of perception, the paranoia police in hot pursuit.

One of the unique features of the show was the spoken-word pieces delivered by Robert Calvert with icy precision, a chance for both band and audience to catch their breath, and a coolly enigmatic presence at the heart of Space Ritual’ s fearsome engine. The most renowned piece is Sonic Attack , which was issued as a one-sided promo single ahead of the album.

“ Sonic Attack was a government health warning concocted by Michael Moorcock,” explained Nik Turner. “It was the dark side of what was going on. The government were issuing all these warnings which were completely stupid: you know, in the event of a nuclear attack, get under the table and paint your windows white. It was crazy. If that’s what they think people will believe, they obviously don’t have a very high opinion of people!”

On May 27, Hawkwind promoted Space Ritual ’s release with a major gig at Wembley Empire Pool (now OVO Arena), their biggest headline show in the UK. Doug Smith says: “I was sitting behind these big WEM speakers we’d hired from Pink Floyd. We’d invited the head of the American label over to see the show, and there was this look on his face of, ‘Fucking hell!’ We’d been dubbed the poor man’s rock’n’roll band, but Wembley just proved a point…”

The Space Ritua l would be the basis of Hawkwind’s live show until the end of the year, when the band toured the US for the first time, selling out the 6,000-seater Chicago Auditorium before they’d even got on the plane.

It was the concept that took the band to a new level of adulation among fans while heightening their notoriety among the more conservative members of the press. It was a special moment in rock history that showed it was possible to do something radically different with the live format – and an unforgettable experience for everyone who was there.

This article is dedicated to Nik Turner (1940-2022). Unless otherwise noted, all quotes from Nik are from an interview conducted with the writer in 2017.

This article originally appeared in issue 136 of Prog Magazine .

Joe is a regular contributor to Prog. He also writes for Electronic Sound, The Quietus, and Shindig!, specialising in leftfield psych/prog/rock, retro futurism, and the underground sounds of the 1970s. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, MOJO, and Rock & Folk. Joe is the author of the acclaimed Hawkwind biographyDays Of The Underground (2020). He’s on Twitter and Facebook, and his website is https://www.daysoftheunderground.com/ .

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By this stage Hawkwind had enjoyed a surprising, if not outrageous, level of success, having just landed their then-current studio album Doremi Fasol Latido in the UK top 20. Even so, the band put on a live show far larger than its commercial showing should have allowed, staging a kind of cosmic revue featuring a light show, topless dancers and space-themes poetry readings by Robert Calvert. Naturally, some of this is lost in an audio-only format. Nonetheless, divorced of the group’s multimedia ambition, Space Ritual places the focus squarely on the pummeling, at times caveman-simple visceral impact of their music. If space rock is about imagining oneself exploring the void until the boundaries between the cosmos and one’s own mind break down, this is the sound of taking that journey in a beat-up muscle car. The instruments rattle and shake like a spaceship threatening to burn up on re-entry.

Much of this comes down to Lemmy, who was still a relatively new member and would be gone from the group in less than three years. Where the rest of the band spent their days tripping on acid, Lemmy stuck to speed, and the focus and tension wrought by that drug is all over his playing. Though not yet adopting the heavily distorted, rhythm guitar-like higher tuning he would use in Motörhead, Lemmy nonetheless plays more like a second guitarist than a traditional bassist, and his front-and-center lines in the mix give him just as much of a say in the direction of things as Brock’s guitar. Listen to his gallop out of the gate on “Born to Go,” his molasses-thick bassline rolling forward and dragging drummer Simon King with him to ground Brock sliding in and out of the main riff and wah-wah solos as Turner and keyboardist Del Dettmar trade lilting flute trills and synth moans. This basic setup continues through “Down Through the Night” but focuses up into a transportive cadence from Lemmy and endless curlicues from Brock.

Elsewhere, these guys sound like they are tearing a hole in the fabric of space-time. “Space Is Deep” is the most traditional space rock tune here, constantly rising into blissed-out, zero-gravity drift, yet even here there is a punchy quality that regularly sends things into brief flashes of aggression that dispel the dreamy vibes. “Brainstorm” turns bad-trip acid paranoia into proto-thrash metal that regularly swallows itself and is reborn into a new cycle of ferocity. Brock isn’t so much a virtuoso as a guitarist who will follow a train of thought until his repeated licks start to fray and collapse, wringing catharsis from the lack of clear resolution. Though possessed of a greater grasp of chord progressions than Lou Reed, there’s a touch of the Velvet Underground to his approach, avoiding any indulgent noodling even when he gets off on solos and instead riding a vibe back down to earth for a rough landing.

And when the band settles down into a straightforward number, the directness only compounds the album’s impact. “Lord of Light” coalesces out of a whammy-bar fog into a hard rock sprint that boasts what may be Lemmy’s greatest performance as he rolls and dances over Brock’s fuzzy riff, effectively taking the lead role while King pummels his snares behind him. Turner’s saxophone fills only further ratchet up the raunch factor, as if this is what would pass for sleazy glam rock in the Andromeda Galaxy. “Orgone Accumulator,” an ode to the pseudoscientific concept of harvesting one’s own erotic life force for tangible energy, embodies the sexual undercurrent of its inspiration with a giddy 10-minute run-through in which Lemmy’s bass bounces in a way that could almost pass for funk where the rest of the band not exploding in multiple directions over his head.

The pummeling anti-prog of this approach made Hawkwind as many fans in the acid-freak scene as it did a nascent underground of bloat-averse back-to-basics rockers who would become punks. Indeed, no less an authority than the Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra has extolled the record’s virtues as a life-changing document of loud, bewildering music, its loopy interstellar poems and driving fantasias of psychosexual cosmic journeys as belligerent in their own way as the antisocial sneer of the Stooges. Space Ritual is a downright nasty album, and despite filling four sides of vinyl so fully that a few songs had to be edited down to fit, there’s none of the bloated, dinosaur-rock padding that characterizes so many live rock albums from this period. Brock is still keeping the faith with various lineups, and the late Lemmy of course went on to his own legendary success, but the Hawkwind captured on these two nights in late 1972 still sound like the rarest of breeds: a group that broke free of our solar system and settled on a distant world, only to become a bar band.

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Hawkwind – In Concert – recorded October 14, 1972 for In Concert – BBC Radio 1 –

Hawkwind in concert tonight. Recorded by the BBC for their In Concert series on October 14, 1972 and broadcast on Radio 1.

One of the first things I thought when I saw them during their first U.S. tour in Los Angeles around 1973, was that they seemed to be a couple years too late. They were hard-core Psych, complete with light show, dancers (including the jaw-dropping Stacia), extended jams and lots of references to Space and expanded minds. “Would have been perfect in 1967” I thought. And I think that’s one of the reasons United Artists (their label at the time) had an awful time promoting the band here in the States. America was hot in the grips of early 70s Laid-Back West Coast, and mind-melting just wasn’t on the dance card. And with the exception of the practically immortal Silver Machine, Hawkwind really had nothing that could be construed as hit single material, at least in the U.S.

So they were a tough sell – not the case in the UK where they were immediately swept up in the remnants of Psychedelia and actually became an influential band in what would morph into Prog-rock with other UA bands (Amon Duul and The Neutrons) jumping on the bandwagon. As years went by, the band went through numerous personnel as well as style and label changes. By the time the Post-Punk/New Wave period arrived, Hawkwind morphed into something more contemporary for the time. But they still kept it going.

Hawkwind are still together, after 50 years they have become something of an institution and have served as models for numerous bands, from The Sex Pistols (who covered Silver Machine) to Black Flag and Ozric Tentacles. Their guest roster reads like a who’s who of Rock notables and have a catalog of some 31 official albums to their credit.

This concert, relatively early-on in the band’s career, pretty much exemplifies the Psych/Space aspects of the band, and includes their single Silver Machine, which had been released earlier that year.

If you remember them during this period, it will ring many familiar bells – if you’re new to them, and never really heard them during their formative period, here’s your chance.

It’s suggested you crank this one up.

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August 29, 1969 All Saints Hall, London, ENG

September 26, 1969 All Saints Hall, London, ENG

October 10, 1969 Blaises Club, London, ENG

October 18, 1969 Pheasantry Club, London, ENG

October 24, 1969 Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, ENG

October 30, 1969 All Saints Hall, London, ENG

November 1, 1969 Town Hall, Watford, ENG

November 6, 1969 All Saints Hall, London, ENG

November 9, 1969 St. Pancras Town Hall, London, ENG

November ?, 1969 St. George's Hall, Slough, ENG

November 17, 1969 London, ENG

November 24, 1969 Marquee, London, ENG

December 4, 1969 Haverstock Hill Country Club, London, ENG (supporting East Of Eden)

December 16, 1969 Revolution Club, London, ENG

December 18, 1969 Conway Hall, London, ENG

December 19, 1969 Speakeasy, London, ENG

December 21, 1969 Civic Theatre, Chelmsford, ENG

December 23, 1969 St. Pancras Town Hall, London, ENG

December 30, 1969 Blaises Club, London, ENG

January 9, 1970 Blarney Club, London, ENG

January 16, 1970 Blarney Club, London, ENG

January 24, 1970 The Temple, London, ENG

January 26, 1970 Blaises Club, London, ENG

January 28, 1970 All Saints Hall, London, ENG

January 29, 1970 Blarney Club, London, ENG

January 30, 1970 Woolwich Polytechnic, London, ENG

February 5, 1970 100 Club, London, ENG

February 9, 1970 Bridge House, Bracknell, ENG

February 15, 1970 Roundhouse, London, ENG

February 17, 1970 100 Club, London, ENG

February 18, 1970 Speakeasy, London, ENG

February 23, 1970 Friars, Aylesbury, ENG

February 27, 1970 New Arts Lab, London, ENG

March 1, 1970 Robin Hood, Dagenham, ENG March 6, 1970 Nags Head, High Wycombe, ENG March 7, 1970 Van Dyke Club, Plymouth, ENG March 11, 1970 Joints Club, Wimbledon, ENG March 13, 1970 Friars Club, Aylesbury, ENG March 14, 1970 Bishops Stortford College, Bishops Stortford, ENG March 15, 1970 Chelsea College Of Science, London, ENG March 24, 1970 School Of Art, Folkestone, ENG March 29, 1970 Exhibition Park, Paris, FRA (Evolution Festival)

April 6, 1970 Speakeasy, London, ENG

April 12, 1970 Roundhouse, London, ENG

April 15, 1970 Pavillion, Hemel Hempstead, ENG

April 18, 1970 Pheasantry Club, London, ENG

April 25, 1970 Barn Club, Thaxted, ENG

April 26, 1970 Stratford Railway Tavern, London, ENG

May 9, 1970 Tofts Club, Folkestone, ENG

May 16, 1970 London School Of Economics, London, ENG

May 21, 1970 Southside Casino, Blackpool, ENG

May 22, 1970 Dome, Brighton, ENG

May 23, 1970 Afan Lido Sports Centre, Port Talbot, WAL (Afan Festival No. 2, with Keef Hartley Big Band, Taste, Yes, Atomic Rooster, Writing On The Wall, Bloody Welsh, Gypsy & Skin Alley)

May 24, 1970 Roundhouse, London, ENG

May 30, 1970 Kingston-upon-Thames Polytechnic, London, ENG

June 16, 1970 Night Angel, London, ENG (supporting Stray & Daddy Long Legs)

19 Racing Circuit, Mantorps, SWE (Festival Of The Midnight Sun)

June 26-27, 1970 Bath, ENG (Arts Festival)

July 7, 1970 Brighton University, Brighton, ENG

July 10, 1970 Star Hotel, Croydon, ENG

July 19, 1970 Belsize Park Country Club, London, ENG

AUGUST 1970 01 London, Belsize Square, Church Hall 02 London, Lyceum Ballroom 08 Durham, Winter Ballroom 14 Norwich, Earlham Park, Music Festival 16 Southall, Northcote Arms 18 London, Maida Vale, BBC Studio 4 (BBC In Session) 22 London, Wormwood Scrubs Common, Music Festival 27 Afton, Isle Of Wight, Music Festival 28 Afton, Isle Of Wight, Music Festival 29 Afton, Isle Of Wight, Music Festival 30 Afton, Isle Of Wight, Music Festival 31 Afton, Isle Of Wight, Music Festival

SEPTEMBER 1970 ?? Southsea, The Bubble 06 London, Lyceum Ballroom 11 Preston Top Rank 12 St. Annes, Tennis Club 13 Draycott, Blue Orchid 14 Norwich 15 Nottingham Polytechnic 16 Hanley, Top Rank 17 Dunstable, California Ballroom 18 Swansea, Top Rank 19 Lincoln, Whittons Park, Music Festival 20 Derby, Clouds Club 21 Reading Top Rank 23 Birmingham, Top Rank 24 London, The Factory 25 Sheffield, Top Rank 26 Boston, The Gilderdrome 28 London, Soho, Upstairs At Ronnie Scott's Club 30 Leicester, Top Rank

October 4, 1970 Guildhall, Southampton, ENG

October 5, 1970 Upstairs At Ronnie Scott's, London, ENG

October 7, 1970 Fagins Club, London, ENG

October 9, 1970 Liverpool University, Liverpool, ENG (with Roy Harper)

October 11, 1970 Stratford Theatre Royal, London, ENG

October 14, 1970 Liverpool Polytechnic, Liverpool, ENG 15 Babbacombe, The Theatre 16 Barnstaple, Queens Hall 17 Truro, Town Hall October 18, 1970 Pied Bull, London, ENG 22 Uxbridge, Acid Palace 23 London, Holloway, Northern Polytechnic October 24, 1970 Newark Showground, Newark, ENG (Festival Of Contemporary Music) 26 Letchworth, The Leys 28 Barnet, The Salisbury 30 Birmingham, Downstairs Club

NOVEMBER 1970 05 London, Paris Cinema (BBC In Concert) 07 Epping, Wake Arms

November 8, 1970 Mothers, Birmingham, ENG (supporting Pink Fairies)

November 9, 1970 Nottingham Polytechnic 12 London, Belsize Park, Country Club 14 Wycombe, Town Hall 15 Chelmsford, Eyes Club

November 21 Blackpool, Palatine Hotel

November 27, 1970 Alan Pullinger Centre, London, ENG (supported by Big Ladder Woman)

November 29 Northampton, Blisworth Hotel

November 30 Doncaster, Co-Op Hall

DECEMBER 1970 11 London, The Temple 13 London, Chalkfarm, The Roundhouse 17 Maidstone, Technical College 20 Letchworth, The Leys 22 York, Nunthorpe School

January 3, 1971 Eyes Club, Chelmsford, ENG

January 8, 1971 Slough College, Slough, ENG (supported by Genesis)

January 10, 1971 The Breaks, Hatfield, ENG

January 26, 1971 Marquee, London, ENG

January 27, 1971 U.P.S Benefit

January 29, 1971 All Saints Hall, London, ENG

February 12, 1971 Harrow Inn, London, ENG

February 19, 1971 Technical College, Colchester, ENG

February 21, 1971 Wake Arms, Epping, ENG

February 23, 1971 Belsize Park Country Club, London, ENG

February 25, 1971 Canterbury University, Canterbury, ENG

February 26, 1971 Red Lion Leytonstone, London, ENG

February 27, 1971 Technical College, Bromley, ENG

March 1, 1971 Theatre Royal, Lincoln, ENG March 4, 1971 Porchester Hall, London, ENG March 5, 1971 Nottingham Polytechnic, Nottingham, ENG March 6, 1971 43 King Street Covent Garden, London, ENG March 12, 1971 City University, London, ENG March 13, 1971 University College, London, ENG March 14, 1971 Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage, ENG March 20, 1971 Liverpool Stadium, Liverpool, ENG (supported by Cochise & Hightide) March 22, 1971 Marquee, London, ENG March 25, 1971 Willesden Technical College, London, ENG March 26, 1971 North Cheshire College, Timperley, ENG

APRIL 1971 02 Kingston-upon-Thames, Coronation Hall 03 Epping, Wake Arms 07 London, Belsize Park, Country Club 09 London, Holborn, Conway Hall 12 Plymouth, Van Dyke Club 13 Weston Super Mare 14 Exeter University 15 Redruth, Flamingo Club 16 Penzance, Winter Gardens 17 Watford, Kingham Hall 18 Romford, Albemarle Youth House 19 London, Playhouse Theatre (BBC In Session) 20 London, Leytonstone, Chez Club 21 London Polytechnic 22 Hull, The Brickhouse 23 London, Holborn, Conway Hall 27 London, Belsize Park, Country Club 27 London, Wood Green, Nightingale Hotel (CANCELLED) 28 Penzance, St. Michael's Mount

MAY 1971 02 London, Chalkfarm, The Roundhouse ?? Aberdeen, Cowdray Hall 14 London, Finsbury Park, Sisters Club 17 London, Elm Park Hotel 19 London, Maida Vale, BBC Studio 4 (BBC In Session) 21 London, Abbeywood, Harrow Inn 24 London, Edmonton, Cooks Ferry Inn 25 Crawley, Starlight Club 26 London, Finsbury Park, Sisters Club 27 London, Finsbury Park, Sisters Club 28 London, Finsbury Park, Sisters Club (Early Show) 28 London, Kensington, Town Hall (Late Show)

JUNE 1971 European Tour 01 Berlin, Olympic Stadium, Waldbuhne Area, Germany 03 Frankfurt, Germany 04 Darmstadt, Otto Bernte Hall, Germany 05 Mullheim, Music Festival, Germany 06 Dusseldorf, Phillips Hall, Germany 07 Lucerne, Switzerland 09 Rome, Pamphili Park, Music Festival, Italy 12 Lille, France

14 Deal, Sports Centre (CANCELLED) 17 Romford, Albemarle Youth House 19 Waltham Forest Polytechnic 22 London, Wood Green, Nightingale Hotel 23 Pilton, Worthy Farm, Glastonbury Fayre 28 London, Marquee Club

JULY 1971 03 Malvern, Winter Gardens 09 Torquay, Town Hall 16 Southall, Northcote Arms 17 London, The Temple 18 York, Museum Gardens, Youth Music Festival 24 London, Belsize Park, Country Club 25 Croydon, The Greyhound 26 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 27 London, Marquee Club 28 Twickenham, The Winning Post 31 London, Notting Hill Gate, Portobello Road

AUGUST 1971 01 Northampton, Abington Park, Music Festival 03 Crawley, Starlight Club 04 Bedford, Corn Exchange 07 London, Notting Hill Gate, Portobello Road 08 London, Leytonstone, Red Lion 14 High Wycombe, Town Hall 17 Windsor, 1832 Club 20 London, Chiswick, Town Hall August 21, 1971 Carnon Downs, Truro, ENG (Tregye Festival of Contemporary Music) 23 Torquay, Town Hall 28 London, Notting Hill Gate, Portobello Road

SEPTEMBER 1971 01 London, Notting Hill Gate, Powis Square Carnival 03 London, Kensington, Imperial College 04 Bedford, Corn Exchange 08 London, Belsize Park, Country Club 10 Slough, Community College 11 Duddleswell, Harmony Farm, Free Festival (Early Show) 11 Watford, Kingham Hall (Late Show) ?? Bristol, St. Matthias College 17 Southall, Northcote Arms (CANCELLED) 19 Bexley, The Black Prince 23 London, Tottenham, Spiders Club 24 London, Wimbledon, Hobbit's Garden

September 29, 1971 Memorial Hall, Atherstone, ENG

Uriah Heep In Search Of Space Promo Tour 1971

October 2, 1971 Leys Club, Letchworth, ENG

October 3, 1971 Northcote Arms, Southall, ENG

October 6, 1971 Oldfield Tavern, Greenford, ENG

October 8, 1971 Community College, Slough, ENG

October 10, 1971 St. Pancras Town Hall, London, ENG

October 16, 1971 Elm Court Youth Centre, Potters Bar, ENG

October 20, 1971 Ladbroke Grove Krypt, London, ENG

October 22, 1971 St. George's Hall, Bradford, ENG

October 27, 1971 Dorothy Ballroom, Cambridge, ENG

October 28, 1971 Toby Jug, Tolworth, ENG

October 29, 1971 Harrow Inn, London, ENG

October 31, 1971 Teacher Training College, Southampton, ENG

NOVEMBER 1971 01 London, Kennington, Oval Surrey Rooms 06 London, Euston, University College 11 Barry, Memorial Hall 12 Bath University 13 Waltham Forest, Technical College 15 Brighton, The Dome 18 Chatham, Central Hall 19 Middlesex, Technical College 20 Luton College 23 Colwyn Bay 24 Liverpool, Mardi Gras 25 Lytham St. Annes, Lowther Pavillion 26 Swansea University 27 Ewell Polytechnic

DECEMBER 1971 02 London, Hammersmith, Town Hall 03 Crawley College 04 Boston, Starlight Rooms 05 Manchester, Free Trade Hall 06 Birmingham, Kenetic Playground 07 Glasgow 08 Aberdeen, Cowdray Hall 10 London, Leytonstone, Red Lion 11 Devizes, Starkers Club 16 Wellington, Town House

December 18, 1971 Sports Centre, Bracknell, ENG

December 19, 1971 Greyhound, Croydon, ENG (Supported by Jerico Jones)

December 20, 1971 Olympia, Paris, FRA

December 22, 1971 St. Thomas Hall, Canterbury, ENG

December 23, 1971 Seymour Hall, London, ENG

December 30, 1971 Public Hall, Wallington, ENG

January 8, 1972 St. Thomas Hall, Canterbury, ENG

January 10, 1972 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, ENG

January 14, 1972 Community College, Slough, ENG (supported by Spontaneous Combustion, Carol Grimes & Uncle Dog & Heavy Eric)

January 21, 1972 Queens Hall, Barnstaple, ENG

January 22, 1972 Village Roundhouse, Dagenham, ENG(CANCELLED)

January 26, 1972 Rex Ballroom, Bognor Regis, ENG

January 27, 1972 Corn Exchange, Cambridge, ENG

January 29, 1972 Summerstown Church Hall, London, ENG (Early Show)

January 29, 1972 Technical College, Farnborough, ENG (Late Show)

February 1, 1972 Technical College, Colchester, ENG February 2, 1972 Bumpers, London, ENG ('Nasty Ball', with Pink Fairies, Bishop's Big Bopper, Linda Lewis, Skin Alley, Blackheath Foot N Death Men, Sonic 7, Brinsley Schwarz & Steve Took) February 4, 1972 St. Georges Hall, Bradford, ENG February 5, 1972 Durham University, Durham, ENG February 11, 1972 Goldsmith College, London, ENG February 12, 1972 Technical College, Watford, ENG February 13, 1972 Roundhouse, London, ENG February 16, 1972 Town Hall, Glastonbury, ENG February 18, 1972 Leith Eldorado, Edinburgh, SCOT February 20, 1972 Redcar Jazz Club, Redcar, ENG February 25, 1972 York University, York, ENG February 26, 1972 Liverpool Stadium, Liverpool, ENG (CANCELLED) February 27, 1972 Croydon Greyhound, London, ENG

MARCH 1972 04 London, Dagenham, Village Roundhouse 13 Watford, Town Hall 17 Manchester, Free Trade Hall 23 Ramsgate 24 Margate, Dreamland Ballroom 25 London, Dagenham, Village Roundhouse 29 Bristol, Boobs Club

APRIL 1972 01 Liverpool Stadium

April 3, 1972 Falcon Fields, Tadley, ENG (Free C.N.D Festival, with Roy Harper, Steve Took, Graham Bond & Pete Brown, Armada, Adrian Henri & Adrian Mitchell) 04 London, Notting Hill Gate, Portobello Road 21 London, Central

l Polytechnic 22 Aylesbury, Friars Club 30 Belfast, Queens University, Northern Ireland (CANCELLED)

MAY 1972 01 Dublin, Liberty Hall, Ireland (CANCELLED) 05 Bickershaw, Music Festival 10 Newcastle, City Hall 11 London, Chalkfarm, The Roundhouse 12 Birmingham, Town Hall (Early Show) 12 Birmingham, Town Hall (Late Show) 13 Cambridge, Corn Exchange European Tour May 19, 1972 Paradiso Club, Amsterdam, NED 20 Dusseldorf, Phillips Hall, Germany 21 Berlin, Olympic Stadium, Waldbuhne Area, Germany 23 Rome, Pamphili Park, Music Festival, Italy 24 Trieste, Music Festival, Italy 26 Essen, Sports Stadium, Germany 28 Denmark 29 Denmark

JUNE 1972 02 Devizes, Poperama Club 03 London, Dagenham, Village Roundhouse 04 Bath, Cleveland Hotel, Windle Manor Free Festival 09 London, Kings Cross Cinema 10 Oxford Polytechnic 11 Brighton University 22 Pilton, Worthy Farm, Glastonbury Festival 28 Trentishoe, Free Festival UK – Silver Machine Promo Tour 29 Sheffield University

JULY 1972 01 Wellingborough, Rock Club 02 Guildford, Civic Hall 03 Norwich, St. Andrew's Hall 07 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 08 Cheltenham, Sandford Mills Park, Music Festival (Early Show) 08 Kingston-upon-Thames Polytechnic (Late Show) 09 Bristol, The Lacarno 20 Boscombe, Free Festival 21 Southampton, The Guildhall 26 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 27 Hastings, Pier Pavillion 30 Edinburgh, Caley Cinema

AUGUST 1972 02 London, Maida Vale, BBC Studio 5 (BBC In Session) August 3, 1972 Hastings Pier Ballroom, Hastings, ENG (supported by Magic Muscle) 04 Margate, Dreamland Ballroom 10 Boscombe, Royal Ballroom 11 Southampton, The Guildhall 13 London, Finsbury Park, Rainbow Theatre 16 Torquay, Town Hall 17 Penzance, The Garden 18 Barnstaple, Queens Hall 19 Plymouth, The Guildhall

SEPTEMBER 1972 01 Birmingham, Kenetic Circus 02 London, Dagenham, Village Roundhouse 03 Croydon, The Greyhound 04 Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall European Tour 08 Essen, Gruga Hall, Germany 09 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland 11 Berlin, Olympic Stadium, Waldbuhne Area, Germany 13 Rome, Pamphili Park, Music Festival, Italy

16 London, Oval Cricket Ground, Music Festival 21 Manchester, Free Trade Hall 22 Cambridge, Corn Exchange September 23, 1972 Home Park, Windsor, ENG ('Windsor Arts Festival', supported by Arthur Brown, Pretty Things, Renaissance, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, Brewers Droop & Mottleigh. MC5 & Quicksilver didn't appear) 28 London, Paris Cinema (BBC In Concert) 30 Liverpool Stadium

OCTOBER 1972 05 London, Mile End, The Sundown 07 Leicester University 28 Lausanne, Municipal Theatre, Switzerland 29 Lucerne, Switzerland 31 Lille, France

NOVEMBER 1972 01 Paris, The Olympia, France UK – Space Ritual Tour 08 Kings Lynn, Corn Exchange 09 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 11 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 16 York University 17 Lancaster University 18 Leeds University 19 Bristol, The Lacarno 21 Norwich, St. Andrew's Hall 23 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 24 Aberdeen, Music Hall 25 Edinburgh, The Empire 26 Manchester, The Hardrock 28 Hanley, Victoria Hall 30 Oxford, Apollo Theatre

DECEMBER 1972 01 Exeter University 03 Bournemouth, The Hardrock 05 Sheffield, City Hall 07 Derby, Kings Hall 08 Margate, Dreamland Ballroom 09 Bracknell, Sports Centre 12 Liverpool Stadium 13 Bradford, St. George's Hall 14 Middlesbrough, Town Hall 15 Newcastle, City Hall 16 Preston, The Guildhall 18 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 19 Swansea, Patti Pavillion 21 Blackburn, King George's Hall 22 Liverpool Stadium 23 Sunderland, The Lacarno 29 London, Edmonton, The Sundown 30 London, Brixton, The Sundown

FEBRUARY 1973 01 Manchester, The Hardrock 07 London, Wandsworth Prison 09 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 11 Carlisle, Market Hall 15 Cardiff, Capitol Theatre 16 Brighton, Top Rank 17 Southend, Kursaa Ballroom 18 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema European – Space Ritual Tour

23 Bremen, Germany

February 24, 1973 Philipshalle, Dusseldorf, GER (Hot Rock Night 1973, with Family, Home, Golden Earring, Focus, Savoy Brown, Vinegar Joe & Mike Abrahams Band)

25 Berlin, Olympic Stadium, Germany 27 Rome, Italy MARCH 1973 08 Belfast, Queens University, Northern Ireland 10 Dublin, National Stadium, Ireland 12 Limerick, Savoy Theatre, Ireland 13 Cork, Savoy Theatre, Ireland 31 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland

APRIL 1973 01 Sittard, Stads Schauwburg, Holland 09 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 13 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 18 Swansea, Top Rank 22 Douglas, Palace Lido, Isle Of Man European Tour 26 Bremen, Germany 27 Dortmund, Westfallen Hall, Germany 28 Hamburg, Music Hall, Germany 29 Mannheim, Ice Stadium, Germany 30 Frankfurt, Germany

May 1, 1973 Olympic Stadium, Berlin, GER May 2, 1973 Rome, ITY May 3, 1973 Munich, GER May 4, 1973 Nuremburg, GER May 5, 1973 Stuttgart, GER May 6, 1973 Cologne, GER May 7, 1973 Phillipshalle, Dusseldorf, GER (CANCELLED) May 11, 1973 Hannover, GER (CANCELLED) May 27, 1973 Empire Pool, Wembley, ENG (Supported by Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, Magic Michael, Deke Leonard & Iceberg, Danny & The Racing Cars, Fruup & (DJ) Andy Dunkley)

JUNE 1973 19 Richmond Park, Free Festival UK – Urban Guerilla Promo Tour 20 Guildford, Civic Hall 21 Guildford, Civic Hall 22 Leeds, Queens Hall 25 Swansea, Top Rank 26 Plymouth, The Guildhall 27 Barnstaple, Queens Hall 28 Bristol, The Lacarno 29 Redruth, The Flamingo 30 Torquay, Town Hall

JULY 1973 01 Trentishoe, Free Festival 07 Bletchley, Sports Centre 08 Bristol, The Lacarno 09 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 10 Guildford, Civic Hall 11 Kings Lynn, Corn Exchange 14 Liverpool Stadium 16 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 17 Salisbury, City Hall 19 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland 21 Rotterdam, De Doelen, Holland 25 Southampton, Top Rank 27 Bath, Free Festival 29 Reading, Top Rank

AUGUST 1973 22 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 25 Windsor, Home Park, Arts Festival 29 Torquay, Town Hall 30 Truro, City Hall

SEPTEMBER 1973 September 1, 1973 Hastings Pier Ballroom, Hastings, ENG (supported by Ace) September 2, 1973 Fairfield Hall, Croydon, ENG September 3, 1973 St. Pancras Town Hall, London, ENG September 8, 1973 Winter Gardens, Malvern, ENG (supported by Ace, Andy Dunkley, Liquid Len & Cosmic Frenz) Scandinavian Tour 10 Halden, Fredriksten Festival, Norway 12 Bergen, Engen Cinema, Norway 13 Oslo, Chateau Neuf, Norway 14 Mantorps, Racing Circuit, Music Festival, Sweden 15 Gothenburg, Music Festival, Sweden 20 Gillingham, Classic Cinema 22 Harlow Park, Music Festival European Tour 28 Amsterdam Paradiso Club, Holland (CANCELLED) 29 Kortrijk, Town Hall, Belgium

OCTOBER 1973 ?? Germany ?? Germany ?? Germany ?? Germany ?? Germany ?? Germany ?? Germany 12 Zurich, Volks House, Switzerland ?? Switzerland ?? Austria ?? Austria ?? Italy ?? Italy ?? Italy ?? Italy NOVEMBER 1973 11 Paris, The Olympia, France USA – Space Ritual Tour 23 Philadelphia, Tower Theatre, PA, U.S.A 25 New York, Steins Academy Of Music, NY, U.S.A 26 Chicago, The Auditorium, IL, U.S.A 27 Akron University, OH, U.S.A 28 Detroit, Ford Auditorium, MI, U.S.A

DECEMBER 1973 01 St. Louis, American Theatre, MO, U.S.A 02 St. Louis, American Theatre, MO, U.S.A 03 Denver, CO, U.S.A 05 Santa Monica, Civic Hall, CA, U.S.A 06 San Francisco, Auditorium Theatre, CA, U.S.A UK – The Ridiculous Roadshow Tour (part 1) 10 Manchester, Free Trade Hall 11 Newcastle, City Hall 15 Bracknell, Sports Centre 16 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 17 Bradford, St. George's Hall 19 Aberdeen, Music Hall 20 Perth, Music Hall 21 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 22 Edinburgh, The Empire 23 Carlisle, Market Hall

JANUARY 1974 UK – The Ridiculous Roadshow Tour (part 2) 01 Blackburn, King George's Hall 02 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 03 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 05 Southend, Kursaal Ballroom 06 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 10 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 11 Clacton, Town Hall 12 Liverpool Stadium 16 Norwich, St. Andrew's Hall 17 Cheltenham, Town Hall 18 Derby, Kings Hall 19 Bournemouth, Winter Gardens 20 Bristol, The Hippodrome 23 Guildford, Civic Hall 25 London, Edmonton, The Sundown 26 London, Edmonton, The Sundown 28 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 31 Swansea, Brangwyn Hall

FEBRUARY 1974 01 Plymouth, The Guildhall 04 Dublin, National Stadium, Ireland 05 Belfast, Whitla Hall, Northern Ireland 06 Belfast, Whitla Hall, Northern Ireland 08 Lancaster University 09 Leeds University 10 Blackburn, King George's Hall 16 Brighton, Top Rank 17 Southend, Kursaal Ballroom 18 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema

MARCH 1974 North American – The 1999 Party Tour 07 Los Angeles, Aquarius Theatre, CA, U.S.A 08 San Francisco, Auditorium Theatre, CA, USA 09 San Diego, J.J's Club, CA, U.S.A 10 Berkeley, Zallerbach Auditorium, CA, U.S.A 15 Kansas City, Soldiers And Sailors Club, KA, U.S.A March 16, 1974 Kiel Auditorium, St Louis, MO 19 Milwaukee, Riverside Theatre, WI, U.S.A 20 Columbia, MO, U.S.A 21 Chicago, Auditorium Theatre, IL, U.S.A 22 Cleveland, Allen Theatre, OH, U.S.A March 23, 1974 Michigan Palace, Detroit, MI 24 South Bend, Morris Civic Auditorium, IN, USA 25 Toledo, Sports Arena, OH, USA 29 Atlanta, Electric Ballroom, GA, U.S.A

APRIL 1974 02 Nashville, TN, U.S.A 05 Philadelphia, Tower Theatre, PA, U.S.A 06 Buffalo, NY, U.S.A 07 Baltimore, Latin Casino, MD, U.S.A 08 Boston, Orpheum Auditorium, MA, U.S.A 10 New York, Steins Academy Of Music, NY, U.S.A 13 Washington, Warner Theatre, DC, U.S.A 14 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 15 Toronto, Massey Hall, Ontario, Canada

June 9, 1974 Trade Hall, Sindelfingen, GER June 10, 1974 Cologne University, Cologne, GER June 11, 1974 The Underground, Bonn, GER June 13, 1974 Ski Arena, Holmenkollen, NOR (Ragna Rock Festival) June 16, 1974 Milan, ITY (Renudo Music Festival) June 20, 1974 Marrum, NED (Music Festival) June 21, 1974 Culture Centre, Groningen, NED June 22, 1974 Stokvis Hall, Arnheim, NED June 24, 1974 Congresgebouw, The Hague, NED June 25, 1974 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, NED June 26, 1974 De Doelen, Rotterdam, NED

July 2, 1974 Olympia, Paris, FRA July ?, 1974 Meigan Fayre

August 10, 1974 Harlow Park, Harlow, ENG (Music Festival)

August 11, 1974 Hippodrome, Bristol, ENG

August 28, 1974 Home Park, Windsor, ENG (Arts Festival)

Hawkwind Hall Of The Mountain Grill US Tour 1974

September 6, 1974 Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI

September 7, 1974 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL

September 8, 1974 Allen Theatre, Cleveland, OH

September 11, 1974 Madison, WI

September 13, 1974 Albee Theater, Cincinnati, OH (supported by Kansas)

September 14, 1974 Dayton, OH

September 19, 1974 Aurora, IL

September 20, 1974 Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, WI

September 21, 1974 Civic Centre, Hammond, IL

September 23, 1974 Toledo, OH (CANCELLED)

OCTOBER 1974 15 St. Louis, Henry Kiel Auditorium, MO, U.S.A 16 Memphis, Ellis Auditorium, TN, U.S.A 18 Kansa City, Memorial Hall, KA, U.S.A 19 Lincoln, NB, U.S.A 20 Oklahoma City, OK, U.S.A 22 Wichita, Convention Hall, KA, U.S.A 23 Denver, CO, U.S.A 25 Springfield, IL, U.S.A 26 Akron University, OH, USA 27 Toledo, Sports Arena, OH, U.S.A 28 Chicago, Auditorium Theatre, IL, U.S.A 30 Detroit, Michigan Palace, MI, U.S.A 31 Detroit, Ford Auditorium, MI, U.S.A

NOVEMBER 1974 02 New York, Steins Academy Of Music, NY, U.S.A European – Hall Of The Mountain Grill Tour 16 Belgium 17 Brussels, Paul–Emile Janson, University Auditorium, Belgium 18 Belgium 23 Paris, The Olympia, France 24 Dijon, Congress Palace, France 25 Colmar, France 26 Poitiers, The Arena, France 27 Lyon, Palais D'Hiver, France 28 Grenoble, Sports Hall, France 29 Marseilles, Salle Vallier, France

DECEMBER 1974 ?? Germany ?? Germany ?? Germany ?? Germany UK – A Dead Singer Tour (part 1) 10 Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall 12 Newcastle, City Hall 13 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 14 Manchester, Palace Theatre 15 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 21 Southend, Kursaal Ballroom

JANUARY 1975 UK – A Dead Singer Tour (part 2) 07 Cardiff, Capitol Theatre 08 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 10 Birmingham, Odeon Theatre 11 Bournemouth, Winter Gardens 12 Paignton, Festival Theatre 13 Watford, Town Hall 14 Southampton, Top Rank 18 Liverpool Stadium 19 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 23 Derby, Kings Hall 24 Clacton, Town Hall 25 Bracknell, Sports Centre 26 Norwich, Theatre Royal (CANCELLED) 30 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 31 Lancaster University

FEBRUARY 1975 01 Leeds University 02 Coventry Theatre 06 Malvern, Winter Gardens 07 London, East Ham, Granada Cinema 08 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 09 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 10 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 12 Bradford, St. George's Hall 13 Halifax, Civic Hall 15 Chatham, Central Hall 16 London, Chalkfarm, The Roundhouse 22 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall (CANCELLED) 23 Guildford, Civic Hall 24 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 27 Gloucester, Leisure Centre (CANCELLED) 28 Yeovil, Johnson Hall (CANCELLED)

MARCH 1975 02 Dunstable, Queensway Hall (CANCELLED) 07 Aberystwyth, Great Hall (CANCELLED) 08 Port Talbort, Afan Lido Sports Centre (CANCELLED) 10 Halifax, Civic Hall (CANCELLED) 11 Preston, The Guildhall (CANCELLED)

APRIL 1975 12 Yeovil, Johnson Hall 13 Dunstable Queensway Hall North American – Warrior On The Edge Of Time Tour 29 St. Louis, Ambassador Theatre, MO, U.S.A

MAY 1975 01 Kansas City, Memorial Hall, KA, U.S.A 07 Chicago, Auditorium Theatre, IL, U.S.A 09 Hammond, Civic Centre, IL, USA 10 Detroit, Ford Auditorium, MI, U.S.A 16 Cleveland, Allen Theatre, OH, U.S.A 18 Toronto, Convocation Hall, Ontario, Canada ?? Allentown, PA, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 22 Indianapolis, Rivoli Theatre, IN, U.S.A 23 Milwaukee, Uptown Theatre, WI, USA 25 Hammond, Civic Centre, IL, USA European – Warrior On The Edge Of Time Tour 30 Hamburg, Market Hall, Germany

JUNE 1975 01 Mainz, Elzer Hof, Culture Centre, Germany 04 Saarbruchen, Aula University, Germany 05 Bensberg, Sader Muhle, Germany 06 Duisburg Audimax, Germany 07 Siegen, Buhne der Stadt, Germany 08 Bonn, Town Hall, Germany 10 Munich, Brienner Street Theatre, Germany ?? Holland ?? Holland 15 Frick, Music Festival, Switzerland 18 Brussels, Paul–Emile Janson, University Auditorium, Belgium 19 Bordeaux, Sports Palace, France 20 Poitiers, The Arena, France 21 Nantes, Exhibition Hall, France 22 Toulouse, Comminges Hall, France 23 Paris, Gare De La Bastille, France 25 Metz, Sports Palace, France 27 Dijon, Congress Palace, France 28 Nimes, The Arena, France

JULY 1975 ?? Trentishoe, Free Festival UK – The Mind Journey Tour 25 Newcastle, City Hall 26 Liverpool Stadium

AUGUST 1975 01 Torquay, Town Hall 02 Barnstaple, Queens Hall 03 Truro, The Plaza 08 Sunderland, City Hall 09 Edinburgh, Usher Hall 10 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 22 Reading, Rock Festival 23 Watchfield, Free Festival 25 Watchfield, Free Festival European Tour 30 Halden, Fredriksten Festival, Norway

SEPTEMBER 1975 04 Lund, Olympen Hall, Sweden ?? Sweden 07 Cambrai, Sweden ?? France ?? France ?? France 23 Reims, The Opera, France ?? France 26 Maastricht, Starge Bouw, Holland 27 Venlo, Concert Hall, Holland 28 Assen, De Kolk, Holland 30 Brussels, Paul–Emile Janson, University Auditorium, Belgium

OCTOBER 1975 01 Luneburg, Germany ?? Germany ?? Germany 05 Stuttgart, Gustav Siegel House, Germany ?? Germany

DECEMBER 1975 UK – Christmas Party Tour 10 Blackburn, King George's Hall (CANCELLED) 12 Birmingham, Bingley Hall 13 Southend, Kursaal Ballroom 15 Reading, Top Rank 16 Cardiff, Top Rank 17 Uxbridge, Brunel University 18 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 19 Norwich, St. Andrew's Hall 20 London, Edmonton, Picketts Lock Centre 21 Southampton, Top Rank

MARCH 1976 UK – College Tour 04 Cardiff University (CANCELLED) 05 Salford University 06 London, Kensington, Imperial College 07 London, New Victoria Theatre (CANCELLED) 09 Malvern, Winter Gardens 12 Bournemouth, Winter Gardens 13 Sheffield University 14 Preston, The Guildhall

JUNE 1976 ?? Meigan Fayre ?? Trentishoe, Free Festival

JULY 1976 UK – West Country Tour 10 Barnstaple, Queens Hall ?? Torquay, Town Hall ?? Truro, City Hall ?? Plymouth July 24, 1976 Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, WAL ('Cardiff Castle Festival', supporting Status Quo, with The Strawbs, Curved Air, Budgie & Jackie Lynton)

SEPTEMBER 1976 UK – Astounding Sounds Amazing Music Tour September 15, 1976 City Hall, Sheffield, ENG September 16, 1976 Odeon, Birmingham, SCOT September 17, 1976 Empire, Liverpool, ENG September 18, 1976 Palace Theatre, Manchester, ENG September 19, 1976 City Hall, Newcastle, ENG September 20, 1976 Usher Hall, Edinburgh, SCOT September 21, 1976 Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, SCOT September 22, 1976 Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen, SCOT September 25, 1976 New Theatre, Oxford, ENG September 26, 1976 Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, WAL September 27, 1976 Colston Hall, Bristol, ENG September 28, 1976 Civic Hall, Guildford, ENG September 30, 1976 Queensway Hall, Dunstable, ENG October 1, 1976 Gaumont, Southampton, ENG October 2, 1976 Gaumont, Ipswich, ENG October 4, 1976 De Montfort Hall, Leicester, ENG October 4, 1976 Hammersmith Odeon, London, ENG

DECEMBER 1976 UK – Christmas Tour 06 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 07 Aylesbury, Vale Hall, Friars Club 09 Coventry Theatre 10 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 11 Southend, Kursaal Ballroom 12 Bournemouth, Winter Gardens 18 Bracknell, Sports Centre 19 London, Lewisham Odeon

February 27, 1977 Roundhouse, London, ENG

MARCH 1977 European Tour 11 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland 12 Hoensbroeck, Luxor Palace, Holland 13 Vlaardingen, Lijnbaan Hall, Holland 14 Dortmund, Westfallen Hall, Germany 15 Hamburg, Market Hall 16 Cologne, Sartory Hall, Germany 17 Essen, Aula der PH, Germany 18 Kassel, Town Hall, Germany 19 Holzminden, Town Hall, Germany 20 Berlin, Kant Kino, Germany 21 Berlin, Kant Kino, Germany

APRIL 1977 21 Besancon, Sports Palace, France 22 Lyon, Bourse du Travail, France 23 Paris, Salle Pleyel, France 25 Reims, The Opera, France 26 Roubaix, Le Colisee, France

JUNE 1977 UK – Quark Strangeness & Charm Tour 03 Birmingham, Town Hall 06 Preston, The Guildhall 07 Bradford, St. George's Hall June 8, 1977 Victoria Hall, Hanley, ENG 10 London, Camden, Music Machine 11 London, Camden, Music Machine 15 Slough, Fulcrum Centre 17 Bridlington, Spa Royal Hall June 18, 1977 Hastings Pier Ballroom, Hastings, ENG 19 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 21 Stonehenge, Free Festival 23 Stonehenge, Free Festival

JULY 1977 16 Monkton Farleigh, Free Festival

AUGUST 1977 20 Bubster, Caithness Rock Festival (CANCELLED) 28 Reading, Rock Festival

SEPTEMBER 1977 UK – Spirit Of The Age Tour 16 Manchester, Palace Theatre 17 Liverpool, The Empire 18 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 19 Edinburgh, Usher Hall 20 Newcastle, City Hall 21 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 22 Bradford, St. George's Hall 23 Sheffield, City Hall 25 Croydon, Fairfield Halls 26 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 27 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 28 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 29 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 30 Oxford, Apollo Theatre

OCTOBER 1977 03 Bristol, The Hippodrome 04 Southampton, Gaumont Theatre 05 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 07 West Runton, The Pavillion 13 Carlisle, Market Hall 14 Lancaster University 15 Wigan Casino European – Spirit Of The Age Tour 18 Lille, Sports Palace, France 19 Reims, The Opera, France 21 Pau, Exhibition Hall, France 22 Toulouse, Comminges Hall, France 23 Poitiers, The Arena, France 24 Clermont–Ferrand, Maison de Peuple, France 25 Orleans, France 26 Le Mans, France (Early Show) 26 Paris, Sports Stadium, France (Late Show) 28 Belgium (CANCELLED) 29 Belgium (CANCELLED) 30 Holland (CANCELLED) 31 Holland (CANCELLED)

NOVEMBER 1977 01 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland (CANCELLED)

DECEMBER 1977 23 Barnstaple, Queens Hall (as 'The Sonic Assassins')

MARCH 1978 USA Tour 06 New York, Bottom Line Club, NY, U.S.A (Early Show) 06 New York, Bottom Line Club, NY, U.S.A (Late Show) 07 New York, Bottom Line Club, NY, U.S.A (Early Show) 07 New York, Bottom Line Club, NY, U.S.A (Late Show) 10 Milwaukee, Electric Ballroom, WI, U.S.A 11 Chicago, Riviera Theatre, IL, U.S.A 12 Minneapolis, Union Ballroom, MN, U.S.A 13 Kansas City, Rock Palace, MO, U.S.A 14 St. Louis, Hangar One, MO, U.S.A 16 Roslyn, Long Island, My Fathers Place, NY, U.S.A 17 Philadelphia, Tower Theatre, PA, U.S.A 18 Dover, Show Place, NJ, USA 19 Belleville, Rico's Place, IL, U.S.A 20 Boston, Paradise Theatre, MA, U.S.A March 22-25, 1978 Starwood Club, Los Angeles, CA March 26, 1978 Civic Theatre, Santa Monica, CA March 27-28, 1978 Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA (2 shows each night 8.30 & 11.30)

June 5, 1978 Pavilion, West Runton, ENG (CANCELLED)

OCTOBER 1978 UK – Hawklords Heavy Street–Punk Show Tour 06 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 07 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 08 Liverpool, The Empire 09 Edinburgh, Usher Hall 10 Newcastle, City Hall 11 Middlesbrough, Town Hall 13 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 14 Milton Keynes, Woughton Centre 15 Croydon, Fairfield Halls 16 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 17 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 18 Dunstable, Quuensway Hall 20 Bristol, Colston Hall 21 St. Albans, City Hall 22 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 23 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 24 Sheffield, City Hall 25 Bradford, St. George's Hall 26 Leeds, Queens Hall 27 Hanley, Victoria Hall 28 Paignton, Festival Theatre 29 Poole, Wessex Hall

NOVEMBER 1978 01 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre (CANCELLED) 02 Malvern, Winter Gardens 03 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 04 Ilford, Gants Hill Odeon 05 Reading, Hexagon Theatre 06 Cardiff University 08 Gloucester, Leisure Centre 09 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 10 Derby, Assembly Rooms 13 Hemel Hempstead, The Pavillion (CANCELLED) 15 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 16 Carlisle, Market Hall 17 Lancaster University 19 Blackburn, King George's Hall 20 Ebbw Vale, Sports Centre 22 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 23 Plymouth Polytechnic 24 Uxbridge, Brunel University 25 Hastings, Pier Pavillion

September 9, 1979 Queens Hall, Leeds, ENG ( Futurama Festival 1979 , Supported by The Only Ones, The Fall, Scritti Politti, Teardrop Explodes, Echo & The Bunnymen & Others)

NOVEMBER 1979 UK – Masters Of The Universe Tour 15 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 16 Liverpool, The Empire 17 Edinburgh, Odeon Theatre 18 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 19 Newcastle, City Hall 20 Sheffield, City Hall 21 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 22 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 23 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 25 Bristol, Colston Hall 26 Southampton, Gaumont Theatre 27 Bradford, St. George's Hall 29 Paignton, Festival Theatre (CANCELLED) November 30, 1979 Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington Spa, ENG

DECEMBER 1979 01 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 02 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 03 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 04 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 05 Brighton, Conferance Centre 06 Preston, The Guildhall 07 Uxbridge, Brunel University 08 St. Albans, City Hall 09 Cardiff, Sophia Gardens 10 Swansea, Brangwyn Hall 12 Keele University 28 London, Camden, Electric Ballroom 29 London, Camden, Electric Ballroom

JUNE 1980 21 Stonehenge, Free Festival

JULY 1980 UK – Summer Tour 11 West Runton, The Pavillion 12 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 13 London, Lyceum Ballroom 20 London, Lyceum Ballroom

AUGUST 1980 30 Cambridge, Midsummer Common, Fireman's Ball (CANCELLED)

OCTOBER 1980 UK – Levitation Tour 10 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 11 Liverpool, The Empire 12 Derby, Assembly Rooms 13 Sheffield, City Hall 14 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 15 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 16 Gloucester, Leisure Centre 17 Hanley, Victoria Hall 19 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 20 Preston, The Guildhall 21 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 22 Newcastle, City Hall 24 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 25 St. Austell, New Cornish Riviera 26 Poole, Wessex Hall 27 Reading, Top Rank 28 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 29 Taunton, The Odeon 30 Bristol, Colston Hall 31 Guildford, Surrey University

NOVEMBER 1980 01 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 02 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 03 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 04 Croydon, Fairfield Halls 05 St. Albans, City Hall 06 Chelmsford, The Odeon (Early Show) 06 Pilton, Worthy Farm (Late Show) 07 Treforest, Town Hall 08 Cardiff Polytechnic 09 Hull, City Hall 10 Doncaster, Rotters Club 11 Grimsby, Central Hall 13 Belfast, Ulster Hall, Northern Ireland 14 Dublin, Grand Cinema, Ireland 15 Cork University, Ireland

December 12, 1980 Odeon, Edinburgh, SCOT December 13, 1980 Town Hall, Middlesbrough, ENG December 14, 1980 Wirriana Stadium, Peterborough, ENG December 15, 1980 Tiffany's, Coventry, ENG December 16, 1980 Lancaster University, Lancaster, ENG December 17, 1980 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, ENG December 18, 1980 Lewisham Odeon, London, ENG December 19, 1980 Gaumont, Southampton, ENG December 20, 1980 Odeon, Taunton, ENG December 21, 1980 Queens Hall, Leeds, ENG (supported by Eddie & The Hot Rods, Praying Mantis & Chevy) December 22, 1980 Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, WAL

FEBRUARY 1981 14 Baden Baden, Music Laden T.V Show, Germany MARCH 1981 ?? Italy (CANCELLED) ?? Italy (CANCELLED) ?? Italy (CANCELLED) ?? Italy (CANCELLED)

JUNE 1981 19 Stonehenge, Free Festival 20 Pilton, Worthy Farm, Glastonbury Festival

AUGUST 1981 08 Manchester, Alexandra Park, Carnival Against Missiles (CANCELLED) 29 Barnstaple, Yeo Farm, Snapper Festival

SEPTEMBER 1981 05 Burrington, Red Post, Music Festival UK – Sonic Attack Tour (part 1) 28 Reading, Hexagon Theatre 30 Peterborough, Wirriana Stadium

OCTOBER 1981 01 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 02 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 04 Liverpool, The Empire 05 Derby, Assembly Rooms 06 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 07 Sheffield, City Hall 08 Preston, The Guildhall 09 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 10 Edinburgh, Odeon Theatre 11 Newcastle, City Hall 12 Hull, City Hall 13 Bradford, St. George's Hall 15 Coventry Theatre 16 Hanley, Victoria Hall 17 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 19 St. Albans, City Hall 20 St. Albans, City Hall 21 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 22 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 24 St. Austell, The Colliseum 25 Southampton, Gaumont Theatre 26 Bristol, Colston Hall 27 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 28 Loughborough University 29 Guildford, Civic Hall 31 Amsterdam, Eden Hall, Holland (CANCELLED)

DECEMBER 1981 UK – Sonic Attack Tour (part 2) 11 Paignton, Festival Theatre 12 Stroud, Leisure Centre 13 Poole, Arts Cente (CANCELLED) 14 Bath Pavillions 16 Maidstone, Technical College 18 London, Finsbury Park, Rainbow Theatre 19 Dunstable, Queensway Hall

MARCH 1982 European – Sonic Attack Tour 05 Hitchin, Regal Theatre 08 Hamburg, Market Hall, Germany 09 Bochum Zeche, Germany 10 Cologne, Luxor Palace, Germany 11 Hannover, Rotation Club, Germany 12 Weisbaden, The Wartburg, Germany (CANCELLED) 13 Mannheim, Rose Garden, Germany 14 Wurzburg, Music Hall, Germany 15 Stuttgart, Germany (CANCELLED) 16 Saarbruchen, Aula University, Germany 17 Munich, Schwabinger Brewery, Germany 19 Luxemburg 20 Luxemburg 21 Noordwykerhout, De Schelf, Holland 22 Arnheim Stokvishall, Holland 23 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland

APRIL 1982 30 St. Austell, C.N.D Festival

MAY 1982 01 Montgommery, New Town Theatre 02 Wolverhampton, Ladbroke Stadium, Monmore Rock Festival 04 Aberystwyth University

JUNE 1982 20 Stonehenge, Free Festival

AUGUST 1982 21 Castle Donington, Monsters Of Rock Festival

OCTOBER 1982 UK – Choose Your Masques Tour (part 1) 14 Hitchin, Regal Theatre 15 Hitchin, Regal Theatre 16 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 17 Preston, The Guildhall 18 Liverpool, The Empire 19 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 21 Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 22 Aberdeen, Capitol Theatre 23 Newcastle, City Hall 24 Bradford, St. George's Hall 25 Sheffield, City Hall 27 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 28 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 30 St. Albans, City Hall 31 Bristol, Colston Hall

NOVEMBER 1982 01 Southampton, Gaumont Theatre 03 Hanley, Victoria Hall 04 Dunstable, Quuensway Hall 05 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 06 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 07 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 09 Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall 10 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 11 Guildford, Civic Hall 12 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 13 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 14 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 15 Chippenham, Goldiggers Club

FEBRUARY 1983 UK – Choose Your Masques Tour (part 2) 09 Bradford, St. George's Hall 10 Dunstable, Quuensway Hall 11 Leicester University 12 Sheffield University 13 London, Hammersmith, The Palais 15 St. Helens, Theatre Royal 16 Nottingham, Royal Centre

JUNE 1983 04 Cricket St. Thomas, Wildlife Park, M.A.G Music Festival 22 Stonehenge, Free Festival

SEPTEMBER 1983 03 Milton Keynes, Woughton Centre, UK Electronica (as 'Uncle Nik And The E.T's')

FEBRUARY 1984 UK – Earth Ritual Preview Tour 16 Slough, Thames Hall 17 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 18 Liverpool, The Empire 19 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 20 Preston, The Guildhall 21 Sheffield, City Hall 22 Newcastle, City Hall 23 Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 24 Aberdeen, Capitol Theatre 25 Dundee University 26 Glasgow, Apollo Theatre 27 Hull, City Hall 28 Middlesbrough, Town Hall 29 Halifax, Civic Hall

MARCH 1984 01 Bradford University 02 Hanley, Victoria Hall 03 Nottingham, Sherwood Rooms 05 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 06 Crawley, Leisure Centre 07 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 08 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 09 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 10 Reading University 11 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 13 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 14 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 15 Guildford, Civic Hall 16 Cardiff, St. David's Hall 17 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 18 Bristol, Colston Hall 19 Bath Pavillions 20 Southend, Cliffs Pavillion 21 Southampton, Gaumont Theatre 22 Swansea University 23 Plymouth, Skating Rink

APRIL 1984 22 Brighton, Metropol Hotel (as 'The Sonic Assassins')

MAY 1984 28 Ramsgate, Marina Park

JUNE 1984 20 Stonehenge, Pyramid Stage, Free Festival 21 Stonehenge, Pyramid Stage, Free Festival 22 Stonehenge, Tibetan Tent, Free Festival (as 'Snorkwind')

JULY 1984 06 Montgommery, Rock Festival 21 Stoke, Kings Hall (CANCELLED) 31 Amsterdam, Milky Way, Holland

AUGUST 1984 01 Amsterdam, Milky Way, Holland 02 Amsterdam, Welyngen Squat Party, Holland 11 Nenthead, Silver Moon, Free Festival 24 Thrapston, Lileford Park, Rock Festival (CANCELLED)

NOVEMBER 1984 UK – Do Not Panic Tour 16 Warrington, The Spectrum 17 Cardiff University 18 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 19 Derby, Assembly Rooms 20 Leicester, Mr. Keisas Club 21 Newcastle, The Mayfair 23 Slough, Fulcrum Centre 24 St. Albans, City Hall 25 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 26 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 27 Sheffield University 28 Stoke, Kings Hall 29 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 30 London, Hammermith, The Palais (CANCELLED)

FEBRUARY 1985 22 Ipswich, Cinderella's Club (as 'Snortwind') 10 Manchester, Picadilly Plaza, Exhibition Hall (Hawkon) APRIL 1985 26 London, Wembley, Channel 4 T.V Studios, E.C.T Show

JUNE 1985 UK – Summer Tour 01 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 02 Reading, Hexagon Theatre 03 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 04 Nottingham, Rock City 20 Westbury, White Horse Hill, Free Festival 21 Westbury, White Horse Hill, Free Festival

JULY 1985 19 London, Maida Vale, BBC Studio 4 (BBC In Session)

AUGUST 1985 10 Bramdean Common, Torpedo Town Free Festival 24 London, Crystal Palace Park, Concert Bowl, Anti-Heroin Festival 31 Norwich, Earlham Park, Anglia For Africa Festival

OCTOBER 1985 02 London, Kensington, Royal Albert Hall (CANCELLED)

NOVEMBER 1985 UK – Chronicle Of The Black Sword Tour 05 Guildford, Civic Hall 06 Coventry Polytechnic 07 Preston, The Guildhall 08 Hanley, Victoria Hall 09 Leeds University 10 Sheffield, City Hall 12 Nottingham, Rock City 13 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 14 Liverpool, The Empire 16 Newcastle, City Hall 17 Glasgow, Barrowlands Ballroom 18 Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 19 Aberdeen, Ritzy Club 21 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 22 Malvern, Winter Gardens 23 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 24 Southampton, Gaumont Theatre 25 London, Walthamstow, Assembly Rooms 27 Cardiff, St. David's Hall 28 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 29 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 30 Norwich, University Of East Anglia

DECEMBER 1985 01 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 02 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 03 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 04 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 05 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 06 Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Hall 07 Bristol, The Hippodrome

APRIL 1986 04 Bridport, Beehive Sports Club

MAY 1986 05 Oxford, The Meadow, New Age Fayre (as 'Snortwind')

JULY 1986 05 Exeter, St. George's Hall 17 Bideford, Halley's Club

AUGUST 1986 23 Bristol, Custom Bike Show 24 Reading, Rock Festival

SEPTEMBER 1986 01 Plymouth, The Academy 02 Bournemouth, The Academy

NOVEMBER 1986 UK – The Chaos Tour 07 St. Albans, City Hall 08 Birmingham, Odeon Cinema 09 Derby, Assembly Rooms 10 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 11 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 13 Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 14 Newcastle, City Hall 15 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 16 Liverpool, The Empire 17 Cardiff, St. David's Hall 18 Bristol, Colston Hall 20 Bradford, St. George's Hall 21 Leeds University 22 Hanley, Victoria Hall 23 Sheffield, City Hall 24 Ipswich, Gaumont Theatre 25 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 26 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 27 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 28 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 29 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 30 Southampton, Gaumont Theatre

DECEMBER 1986 01 Malvern, Winter Gardens 02 Nottingham, Rock City 03 Preston, The Guildhall 04 Guildford, Civic Hall 05 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 06 Peterborough, Wirriana Stadium 07 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 08 Reading, The Majestic 09 Bournemouth, The Academy

April 15, 1987 Dacorum Pavillion, Hemel Hempstead, ENG May 23, 1987 Fritz Club, Vienna, AUT May 24, 1987 Zabolinde, Nuremberg, GER May 25, 1987 Music And Action, Esslingen, GER May 26, 1987 Batschkap, Frankfurt, GER May 27, 1987 Luxor Palace, Cologne, GER May 28, 1987 Hunky Dory, Dettmold, GER May 29, 1987 Old Daddy, Haltern, GER May 30, 1987 Knopfs Music Hall, Hamburg, GER May 31, 1987 Zeche, Bochum, GER

AUGUST 1987 03 Bristol, The Studio 04 Southampton, Top Rank 05 Cardiff, Ritzy Club 08 Bramdean Common, Torpedo Town Free Festival (Early Show) 08 Bramdean Common, Torpedo Town Free Festival (Late Show) 19 Nottingham, Rock City (CANCELLED) 23 London, Finsbury Park, Acid Daze Festival 28 Brighton, Conferance Centre, Sci-Fi Convention

SEPTEMBER 1987 12 Dunstable, Queensway Hall 19 Nottingham, Rock City 21 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 26 Worcester, Pitchcroft Racecourse, Summers End Festival

DECEMBER 1987 UK – The 4 Day Trip Tour 09 St. Albans, City Hall 10 Buckley, Tivoli Ballroom 11 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 12 Leeds, Queens Hall, Acid Daze 2

APRIL 1988 UK – The Mad Professor's Laboratory Tour 04 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 05 Nottingham, Rock City 06 Guildford, Civic Hall 07 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 08 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 09 Bristol, Colston Hall 10 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 11 Preston, The Guildhall 13 Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 14 Newcastle, City Hall 15 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 17 Liverpool, The Empire 18 Sheffield, City Hall 19 Birmingham, Powerhouse Club 20 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 21 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 22 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 23 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 24 Southampton, Mayflower Club 25 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 26 Leeds University 28 Cardiff, St. David's Hall 29 Hanley, Victoria Hall 30 St. Albans, City Hall

MAY 1988 01 Lincoln, Drill Hall 30 London, Kentish Town, Town And Country Club, Black Rhino Benefit

JUNE 1988 01 Wick Quarry, Avon Free Festival 05 Silchester, Calleva Henge Party (as 'Hawkdog') 11 Burghfield Common, Free Festival (as 'Hawkdog') 20 Hanging Langford, A–36 Lay-By

JULY 1988 23 Cwmbran, Brecon Free Festival (as 'Hawkdog') 30 Barnstaple, Higher Frank Marsh, Armada Rock Festival (as 'Hawkdog')

AUGUST 1988 02 Newquay, Famous Firkin (as 'Hawkdog') 06 Mithian, Blowinghouse Fayre (as 'Hawkdog') 14 Tewkesbury, Bushney Free Festival (as 'Hawkdog') 27 Settle, Ribblehead, Free Festival (as 'Hawkdog')

SEPTEMBER 1988 01 Bodmin Moor, Rough Tor Free Festival (as 'Hawkdog') UK – Autumn Tour 11 Bristol, The Studio 12 Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Halls 13 Bournemouth, The Academy 14 Plymouth, The Academy 16 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall (CANCELLED) 17 Cheltenham, Town Hall 18 Leeds University

October 1, 1988 Clyro Court, Hay-on-Wye, ENG (Bilbo Baggins Festival, supported by Israel Movements, Roy Harper, Nick Turner's Fabulous All Stars, Jenny Chapman & Friends, Paul Inder & other guests)

NOVEMBER 1988 14 Birmingham, Kaleidascope Club (as 'Hawkdog') 15 Leeds, Phoenix Club (as 'Hawkdog' CANCELLED) 16 London, Camden, Electric Ballroom (as 'Hawkdog') UK – Christmas Tour 28 Bournemouth, The Academy 29 Keele University 30 St. Albans, City Hall

DECEMBER 1988 01 Buckley, Tivoli Ballroom 02 Sheffield, Octogan Centre 03 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 04 Birmingham, Powerhouse Club 05 Liverpool, The Empire 06 Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 07 Nottingham, Rock City 08 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 09 Leeds University 10 Leicester University 11 Northampton, Roadmender Centre 12 Bristol, Colston Hall 13 Newport, The Centre 14 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 15 London, Kentish Town, Town And Country Club

FEBRUARY 1989 27 Birmingham, Kaleidascope Club (as 'Hawkdog') MARCH 1989 05 London, Brixton, Academy Theatre, Bob Calvert Tribute 10 Bridport, Beehive Sports Club 15 Leeds, Phoenix Club (as 'Hawkdog') 20 Bristol, The Bierkeller (as 'Hawkdog')

APRIL 1989 20 Bath, Long Acre Hall (as 'Hawkdog') 23 London, Finsbury Park, Sir George Robey (as 'Hawkdog')

MAY 1989 23 Walsall, Junction 10 (as 'Hawkdog')

JUNE 1989 UK – Summer Tour 02 St. Albans, City Hall 03 London, Woolwich, Coronet Club 04 Salisbury, Town Hall 05 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 07 Nottingham, Rock City 08 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 09 Manchester, International 2 20 Pilton, Worthy Farm, Travellers Stage, Glastonbury Festival 21 Pilton, Worthy Farm, Travellers Stage, Glastonbury Festival 25 Toronto, Diamond Club, Ontario, Canada (CANCELLED) 27 Washington, Bayou Club, DC, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 28 Philadelphia, Chestnut Caberet, PA, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 29 Boston, Johnny D's, MA, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 30 New York, Ritz Club, NY, U.S.A (CANCELLED)

JULY 1989 01 Cleveland, Phantasy Club, OH, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 02 Milwaukee, Odd Rock Cafe, WI, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 03 Minneapolis, First Avenue, MN, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 06 Los Angeles, Palace Theatre, CA, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 07 San Francisco, The Stone, CA, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 29 Liskeard, Second Stage, Treworgey Tree Fayre 30 Liskeard, Travellers Stage, Treworgey Tree Fayre

AUGUST 1989 05 Newquay, Famous Firkin (as 'Hawkdog')

SEPTEMBER 1989 03 London, Brixton, Academy Theatre 16 Hay-on-Wye, Clyro Court, Froedo Baggins Festival North American – Xenon Codex Tour 24 Toronto, Diamond Club, Ontario, Canada 26 Washington, 9:30 Club, DC, U.S.A 27 Sommerville, Johnny D's, MA, U.S.A 28 New York, Ritz Club, NY, U.S.A 29 Ardmore, 23 East Caberet, PA, U.S.A 30 Cleveland, Phantasy Club, OH, U.S.A

OCTOBER 1989 01 Chicago, Lounge Ax, IL, U.S.A 02 Detroit, St. Andrew's Hall, MI, U.S.A 03 Milwaukee, Odd Rock Cafe, WI, U.S.A 04 Minneapolis, First Avenue, MN, U.S.A 07 San Francisco, The Stone, CA, U.S.A 08 San Jose, Caberet Club, CA, U.S.A 09 Santa Clara, One Step Beyond, CA, U.S.A 10 Los Angeles, Palace Theatre, CA, U.S.A 12 San Diego, The Bacchanal, CA, U.S.A

NOVEMBER 1989 UK – 20th Anniversary Tour 29 Bournemouth, The Academy 30 Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum Pavillion

DECEMBER 1989 01 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 02 Leeds University 03 Sheffield University 04 Keele University 05 Liverpool, Royal Court Theatre 06 Preston, The Guildhall 07 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 08 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 10 Cardiff, St. David's Hall 11 Bristol, Colston Hall 12 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 13 Edinburgh, Usher Hall 15 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 16 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 17 Croydon, Fairfield Halls 18 Exeter, The Plaza (CANCELLED) 18 Plymouth, The Warehouse

JANUARY 1990 24 Nottingham, Lenton Lane, Channel 4 T.V Studios

MAY 1990 04 Bridport, Beehive Sports Club 19 London, Finsbury Park, Music Festival (CANCELLED)

JUNE 1990 23 Pilton, Worthy Farm, Travellers Stage, Glastonbury Festival 25 Pilton, Worthy Farm, Travellers Stage, Glastonbury Festival

JULY 1990 02 Bournemouth, The Academy

AUGUST 1990 19 Brighton, Telscombe Cliffs, Free Festival

SEPTEMBER 1990 01 London, Brixton, Acedemy Theatre

OCTOBER 1990 UK – Space Bandits Tour 13 Leeds University 14 Hull, City Hall 16 Nottingham, Rock City 18 Newcastle, The Mayfair 19 Redcar, Coat And Bowl 20 Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 21 Liverpool, Royal Court Theatre 22 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 24 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 25 Preston, The Guildhall 26 Sheffield University 27 Croydon, Fairfield Halls 28 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 30 Reading University 31 Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum Pavillion

NOVEMBER 1990 01 Newport, The Centre 02 Hanley, Victoria Hall 03 Colchester University 04 Bristol, Colston Hall 05 Leicester, De Montfort Hall 06 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 07 Brighton, The Event 08 Exeter, St. George's Hall 09 Southampton, Mayflower Club 10 Norwich, University Of East Anglia North American – Space Bandits Tour 28 Boston, Channel Club, MA, U.S.A 30 Philadelphia, Ambler Club, PA, U.S.A

DECEMBER 1990 01 New York, Wetlands Club, NY, U.S.A 02 Washington, 9:30 Club, DC, U.S.A 04 Toronto, Diamond Club, Ontario, Canada 05 Cleveland, The Empire, OH, U.S.A 06 Cleveland, The Empire, OH, U.S.A 07 Chicago, Cubby Bear, IL, U.S.A 08 Willow Grove, Thirsty Whale, IL, U.S.A 09 Milwaukee, Shank Hall, WI, U.S.A 11 Minneapolis, Glam Slam, MN, U.S.A 13 Denver, Mercury Club, CO, U.S.A 15 Los Angeles, Lingerie Club, CA, U.S.A 16 Oakland, Omni Theatre, CA, U.S.A 17 San Francisco, The I-Beam, CA, U.S.A 19 Portland, Day For Night, OR, U.S.A 20 Vancouver, Town Pump, British Columbia, Canada (CANCELLED) 22 Los Angeles, Long Beach, Boggarts Club, CA, U.S.A

MARCH 1991 European – Space Bandits Tour 12 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland 13 Tilburg Noorderlight, Holland 14 Cologne, Live Music Hall, Germany 15 Berlin, Ecstacy Club, Germany 16 Hamburg, Market Hall, Germany 17 Bremen, Modernes Club, Germany 18 Osnabrueck, Hyde Park, Germany 19 Bochum Zeche, Germany 20 Stuttgart, Schinder Hannes, Germany 21 Mainz, Culture Centre, Germany 22 Kempten, Allgau Hall, Germany 23 Nuremburg Komm, Germany 25 Munich, Theatre Fabrik, Germany 26 Wels, Alter Schlachthof, Austria 27 Vienna, Rock House, Austria 28 Zagreb, Yugoslavia 29 Belgrade, Yugoslavia (CANCELLED) 30 Athens, Rodon Club, Greece 31 Athens, Rodon Club, Greece

APRIL 1991 03 Bari, Italy 04 Rome, Castello Club, Italy 05 Florence, Tenaz Club, Italy 06 Turin, Italy 09 Paris, The Bataclan, France 10 Brussels, De Vaarkapoen, Belgium

MAY 1991 North American Tour 05 Baltimore, MO, U.S.A 07 New Haven, Toads Place, CT, U.S.A 08 Boston, Channel Club, MA, U.S.A 09 New York, Marquee Club, NY, U.S.A 10 Philadelphia, Ambler Club, PA, U.S.A 11 Ashbury Park, Fast Lane, NJ, U.S.A 12 Washington, 9:30 Club, DC, U.S.A 14 Montreal, Le Foufones Electric, Quebec, Canada 15 Ottowa, Barrymores Club, Quebec, Canada 16 Toronto, Spectrum Club, Ontario, Canada 17 St. Catherines, The Hideaway, Ontario, Canada 18 Detroit, Latin Quarter, MI, U.S.A 19 Cleveland, The Empire, OH, U.S.A 21 Minneapolis, First Avenue, MN, U.S.A 22 Milwaukee, Shank Hall, WI, U.S.A 23 Chicago, Caberet Metro, IL, U.S.A 26 Wigan, Rugby Ground, Rock Festival (CANCELLED) 28 Denver, Mercury Club, CO, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 29 Houston, TX, U.S.A (CANCELLED)

JULY 1991 05 Glasgow, Barrowlands Ballroom 06 London, Brixton, Academy Theatre 07 London, Brixton, Academy Theatre 20 Cullompton, Music Festival

AUGUST 1991 03 Mildenhal, Speedway Stadium, Rock Festival 31 Exeter, The Plaza

SEPTEMBER 1991 European Tour 28 Oslo, Alaska Club, Norway 29 Stockholm, Daily's Bar, Sweden 30 Uppsala, Barrowaic Club, Sweden

OCTOBER 1991 01 Orebro, Sweden 02 Gothenburg, Magasinet Club, Sweden 03 Lund, Smalands Nation, Sweden 04 Copenhagen, Loppen Club, Denmark 05 Berlin, H & M, Germany 06 Hamburg, Market Hall, Germany 07 Herford, Rock Heaven, Germany 08 Bochum Zeche, Germany 09 Frankfurt Batschkap, Germany 10 Erlangen, Power Station, Germany 11 Brussels, Ancienne Belgique, Belgium 12 Tilburg Noorderlight, Holland 13 The Hague, The Paard, Holland 15 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland

DECEMBER 1991 UK – Christmas Tour 11 Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum Pavillion 12 Bradford University 13 York, Barbican Centre 14 Cardiff University 15 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 23 Exeter, The Plaza (CANCELLED)

APRIL 1992 UK – Electric Tepee Tour 23 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 24 Brighton, The Event 25 Southampton University 26 St. Austell, The Colliseum 27 Worcester, Northwick Club (CANCELLED) 29 Newcastle, The Mayfair 30 Preston, The Guildhall

MAY 1992 01 Edinburgh, Playhouse Theatre 02 Manchester, Apollo Theatre 03 Liverpool, Royal Court Theatre 05 Leeds University 06 Swansea University 07 Bristol, Colston Hall 08 Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum Pavillion 09 Colchester University 10 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 11 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 12 Nottingham, Rock City 13 Birmingham, Humingbird Club 14 Sheffield University 16 London, Hammersmith, Odeon Theatre 17 Milton Keynes, Woughton Centre 18 Leicester Polytechnic 19 Reading University

AUGUST 1992 15 London, Brixton, Academy Theatre 31 Cambourne, Music Festival (CANCELLED)

DECEMBER 1992 UK – Christmas Tour 09 Exeter, The Plaza 10 Bradford, Queens Hall 11 Glasgow, Barrowlands Ballroom 12 Aylesbury, Civic Hall 13 London, Kilburn, National Ballroom 14 Warrington, Parr Hall 15 Bournemouth, The Academy

APRIL 1993 07 Manchester, Jilly's Rockworld 08 Plymouth, The Academy (CANCELLED) 11 Truro, City Hall European Tour 24 Rotterdam, Night Town, Holland 25 Tilburg Noorderlight, Holland 26 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland 27 Paris, Elisee Mont Matre, France 28 Antwerp Hofterloo, Belgium 29 Utrecht, The Tivoli, Holland JULY 1993 31 Pentrich, Coneygrey Showground, M.A.G Bike Festival

AUGUST 1993 13 Camberley, Agin Court 14 London, Brixton, Academy Theatre

NOVEMBER 1993 UK & European – The Business Trip Tour 05 Bournemouth, International Centre 06 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 07 Milton Keynes, Woughton Centre 08 Corby, Festival Hall 10 Whitchurch, Civic Centre 11 Cambridge, The Junction 12 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 13 Bristol University 14 Plymouth, The Warehouse 15 Porthcawl, Grand Pavillion 16 Nottingham, Rock City 17 Liverpool, Royal Court Theatre 18 Bradford University 19 Aberdeen, Music Hall (CANCELLED) 20 Glasgow, Barrowlands Ballroom 22 Manchester, The Academy 23 London, Kentish Town, The Forum 24 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 25 Worthing, Assembly Rooms 26 Slough, Community College 27 Hastings, Pier Pavillion 28 Colchester, Charter Hall

DECEMBER 1993 01 Liege, Culture Centre, Belgium 02 Cologne, Live Music Hall, Germany 03 Hamburg, Market Hall, Germany 04 Berlin, Huxley's Neue Welt, Germany 05 Nuremburg, Lion's Hall, Germany 06 Munich, Gleis 3, Germany 07 Stuttgart, Rohre Club, Germany 08 Leiden, L.V.C, Holland 09 Hengelo Metropol, Holland 10 Haarlam, Patronaat Club, Holland 11 Den Bosch, Wilhelm 2, Holland 12 St. Niklass, P.M.R.C, Belgium

APRIL 1994 UK – A Quark Night In Tour 09 Dublin, Tivoli Theatre, Ireland 10 Belfast, Ulster Hall, Northern Ireland 12 Tenby, D'Valence Pavillion 13 Manchester, Jilly's Rockworld 14 London, Brixton, The Fridge 15 Oxford, Apollo Theatre 16 Exeter, St. George's Hall 17 Truro, City Hall

JUNE 1994 04 Douglas, Summerlands Complex, Isle Of Man 05 Douglas, Mad Sunday Street Party, Sea Front Promenade, Isle Of Man

JULY 1994 15 Bohmstedtfeld, Waldheim Music Festival, Germany

OCTOBER 1994 03 Hamburg, Grosse Freiheit, Germany (CANCELLED) 04 Bremen, Aladin Club, Germany (CANCELLED) 05 Osnabrueck, Hyde Park, Germany (CANCELLED) 06 Aschaffenburg, Klang Works, Germany (CANCELLED) 08 Nuremburg, Lion's Hall, Germany (CANCELLED) 09 Munich, Charter Hall, Germany (CANCELLED) 10 Stuttgart, The Longhorn, Germany (CANCELLED) 11 Berlin, Huxley's Neue Welt, Germany (CANCELLED) European – 25th Anniversay Tour 14 Salzburg, Rock House, Austria 15 Vienna, Rock House, Austria 16 Zurich, The Staff, Switzerland (CANCELLED) 19 Genova, Albatross Club, Italy 20 Rome, The Palladium, Italy 21 Florence, Auditorium Theatre, Italy 22 Spilimbergo, Rototon Club, Italy 23 Turin, Hiroshima Club, Italy 25 Stuttgart, The Longhorn, Germany 26 Munich, Charter Hall, Germany 27 Nuremburg, Lion's Hall, Germany 28 Berlin, Huxley's Neue Welt, Germany 30 Aschaffenburg, Klang Works, Germany 31 Osnabrueck, Hyde Park, Germany

NOVEMBER 1994 01 Paris, Le Plan, France 02 Gent Vooruit, Belgium 03 Uden, De Nieue Pul, Holland 04 Heino, Zaal Struick, Holland 05 Kortrijk, Scum Club, Belgium 06 Rotterdam, Night Town, Holland 08 Bremen, Aladin Club, Germany 09 Copenhagen, Alexander's Club, Denmark 10 Stockholm, Gino's Club, Sweden 12 Hamburg, Grosse Freiheit, Germany 13 Cologne, Live Music Hall, Germany

APRIL 1995 North American – Spirit Of The Age Tour 04 Toronto, Phoenix Club, Ontario, Canada 05 St. Catherines, The Hideaway, Ontario, Canada 06 Buffalo, Impaxx Club, NY, U.S.A 07 Cleveland, Agora Theatre, OH, U.S.A 08 Springfield, Jack's Club, VA, U.S.A 09 New York, Limelight Club, NY, U.S.A 10 Cambridge, Middle East, MA, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 11 New Haven, Toads Place, CT, U.S.A 14 Atlanta, Masquerades Club, GA, U.S.A 17 Detroit, St. Andrew's Hall, MI, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 18 Madison, Barrymore Hall, WI, U.S.A 19 Chicago, Park West, IL, U.S.A 20 Milwaukee, Shank Hall, WI, U.S.A 21 Minneapolis, First Avenue, MN, U.S.A (CANCELLED) 23 Boulder, Fox Theatre, CO, U.S.A 25 San Francisco, Slims Club, CA, U.S.A 27 Los Angeles, The Troubador, CA, U.S.A (CANCELLED)

JUNE 1995 07 Douglas, Summerlands Complex, Isle Of Man 08 Douglas, Summerlands Complex, Isle Of Man

JULY 1995 27 Manchester, Broadcasting House BBC Studio (BBC In Session) 29 Pentrich, Coneygrey Showground, Outlaws Bike Festival

OCTOBER 1995 11 Workington, Carnegie Theatre 12 Glasgow, Barrowlands Ballroom 13 Lancaster, Sugar House 14 Borehamwood, The Venue 15 Liverpool, Royal Court Theatre 16 Manchester, The Academy 17 Cirencester, Corn Hall 18 Cardiff, St. David's Hall 19 Bristol, Colston Hall 20 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 21 London, Brixton, Academy Theatre 23 Portsmouth, The Guildhall 24 Hastings, Pier Pavillion 26 Bochum Zeche, Germany 27 Hamburg, Market Hall, Germany 28 Berlin, Marquee Club, Germany 29 Erlangen, Power Station, Germany 31 Paris, Arapho Club, France (CANCELLED)

NOVEMBER 1995 01 Brussels, La Luna, Belgium 02 Amsterdam, Milky Way, Holland 03 Rotterdam, Night Town, Holland

DECEMBER 1995 22 London, Kentish Town, The Forum

JUNE 1996 21 London, Brixton, Academy Theatre 22 Brentwood, The Centre 23 Guildford, Civic Hall 24 Ipswich, Corn Exchange 25 Lille, L'Aeronef, France 26 Amsterdam, Paradiso Club, Holland 27 Tilburg Noorderlight, Holland 28 Utrecht, The Tivoli, Holland 29 Antwerp Riviernhof, Belgium

JULY 1996 01 Rotterdam, Night Town, Holland 17 Marl, Schacht 8, Germany 18 Braunschweig, F.B.Z Burger Park, Germany 19 Berlin, Huxley's Neue Welt, Germany 20 Fulda, Burg Herzberg Music Festival, Germany 22 Gent, St. Jacob's Square, Arts Festival, Belgium 27 Langtree, Stapleton Farm, Summer Daze Festival

AUGUST 1996 18 Cunlhat, Free Wheels Music Festival, France

SEPTEMBER 1996 07 Tilburg, Sweet Smoke Festival, Holland 08 Rotterdam, Night Town, Holland

NOVEMBER 1996 02 Bath Pavillions (CANCELLED) 08 Thessaloniki, Mylos Club, Greece 09 Athens, Rodon Club, Greece

JUNE 1997 07 London, Blackheath, Concert Halls JULY 1997 12 Escalarre, Doctor Music Festival, Spain 13 Escalarre, Doctor Music Festival, Spain 28 Gorron, Out There Music Festival, France (CANCELLED)

AUGUST 1997 24 Chicago, Cubby Bear, IL 26 Cleveland, Phantasy Club, OH 29 New York, Coney Island High, NY 31 Sherman, Brushwood Centre, Strange Daze Festival, NY

SEPTEMBER 1997 24 Leicester, De Montfort Hall (CANCELLED) 25 Milton Keynes, The Sanctuary (CANCELLED) 26 Warrington, Parr Hall (CANCELLED) 27 Whitby, Stripes Farm, Dracula Festival 28 Gloucester, Leisure Centre (CANCELLED) 29 Reading, Alley Cat (CANCELLED) 30 Worthing, Assembly Rooms

OCTOBER 1997 01 Felixstowe, Pavillion Theatre 02 Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Halls 03 Poole, Arts Centre 05 Bristol, Colston Hall (CANCELLED) 06 Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum Pavillion (CANCELLED) 07 Folkestone, Leas Cliffe Hall 08 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 09 Cambridge, Corn Exchange (CANCELLED) 10 Colchester, Charter Hall 11 Kings Lynn, Corn Exchange 12 Aylesbury, Civic Hall (CANCELLED) 13 Hayes, Beck Theatre 14 Skegness, Embassy Centre (CANCELLED) 15 Bridlington, Spa Theatre (CANCELLED) 16 Mansfield, Leisure Centre 17 Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms 18 Dundee, Fat Sam's (CANCELLED) 19 Glasgow, The Garage 20 Morecombe, The Dome 21 Manchester, Ritz Club 22 Blackburn, King George's Hall 23 Liverpool, The Empire 24 Southport, The Theatre 25 Stoke, Trentham Gardens 26 York, Grand Opera House 27 Leeds, Irish Centre 28 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 29 Croydon, Fairfield Halls 31 London, Shepherds Bush, The Empire

NOVEMBER 1997 01 Guildford, Civic Hall 02 Sheffield, City Hall 03 Rhyl, New Pavillion Theatre 04 Ashton-under-Lyme, Thameside Theatre 05 Paignton, Festival Theatre 06 Newport, The Centre 07 St. Austell, The Colliseum 08 Oxford, Zodiac Club 09 Swansea, Penyrheol Leisure Centre 10 Swindon, Wyvern Theatre 18 Eindhoven Effenar, Holland 19 Amsterdam, Milky Way, Holland 20 Brussels, Ancienne Belgique, Belgium

FEBRUARY 1998 06 Melbourne, Prince Of Wales, Australia (CANCELLED) 07 Melbourne, Corner Hotel, Australia (CANCELLED) 08 Adelaide, Tivoli Theatre, Australia (CANCELLED) 09 Perth, Ozone Club, Australia (CANCELLED) 11 Canberra, ANU, Australia (CANCELLED) 12 Sydney, The Metro, Australia (CANCELLED) 13 Brisbane, Capitol Theatre, Australia (CANCELLED) 14 Byron Bay, Great Northern, Australia (CANCELLED)

MAY 1998 15 Vosselaar, Biebob, Belgium (CANCELLED) 16 Kortrijk, De Kreun, Belgium (CANCELLED) 17 Tilburg, Noorderlight, Holland (CANCELLED)

JULY 1998 10 Dour, Dour Festival, Belgium (CANCELLED) 11 Ragna Love, France (CANCELLED)

AUGUST 1998 15 Garretsville, Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Strange Daze Festival, OH

June 5, 1999 Meadowside Leisure Centre, Burton On Trent, ENG (CANCELLED, Star Trek Convention)

July 30, 1999 Coneygrey Showground, Pentrich, ENG (Outlaws Bike Festival)

July 31, 1999 Greatlow Farm, Buxton, ENG (CANCELLED, BADAM '99 Festival )

August 4, 1999 Allescombe Farm, Honiton, ENG (Private Party)

August 11, 1999 Chynowetth Farm, Carleen, ENG (Eclipse Party, 2 sets)

September 18,1999 Royal Opera House, Buxton, ENG (CANCELLED)

November 8, 1999 Oxford, Zodiac Club

November 9, 1999 Waterfront, Norwich, ENG

November 10, 1999 Waventon Stables, Milton Keynes, ENG

November 12, 1999 Colliseum, St. Austell, ENG

November 14, 1999 Fairfield Hall, Croydon, ENG

FEBRUARY 2000 04 Waihi, Waihi Beach Hotel, New Zealand 05 Auckland, Powerstation, Mt. Eden, New Zealand 10 New Plymouth, Fitzroy Hotel, New Zealand 11 Wellington, St. James Caberet, New Zealand 12 Wellington, St. James Caberet, New Zealand 18 Happy Valley Festival, NSW, Australia 20 Newcastle, Cambridge Tavern, NSW, Australia (CANCELLED) 22 Byron Bay, Great Northern, NSW, Australia 24 Sydney, The Metro, NSW, Australia 26 Auckland, Powerstation, Mt. Eden, New Zealand

MARCH 2000 03 Westport, Community Hall, New Zealand (CANCELLED) 04 Nelson, The Artery, New Zealand (CANCELLED)

OCTOBER 2000 21 London, Brixton Academy Theatre, Hawkestra

DECEMBER 2000 29 London, Astoria Theatre

MARCH 2001 25 Croydon, Fairfield Halls APRIL 2001 01 Aldershot, Princes Hall 02 Nottingham, Rock City 03 Leeds, Irish Centre

JUNE 2001 22 Donington Park, Outlaws Bike Festival

AUGUST 2001 04 Norwich, Sun In The East, Music Festival (CANCELLED) 18 Herne Hill, Mount Ephraimn Gardens, Music Festival

OCTOBER 2001 10 London, Royal Festival Hall

NOVEMBER 2001 Hawkwind Autumn UK Tour 2001 03 Swindon, Wyvern Theatre 06 Leeds, Irish Centre 07 Nottingham, Rock City 08 Birmingham, The Sanctuary 10 Manchester, University 11 Liverpool, Royal Court Theatre 12 Glasgow, The Garage 13 Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms 14 Newcastle, Opera House 16 Cardiff, Coal Exchange 17 Hitchin, Town Hall 18 Poole, Arts Centre 19 Salisbury, City Hall 20 Torquay, Princess Theatre 21 Brighton, Concorde 2 23 Hastings, Pier Pavillion 24 London, Walthamstow, Assembley Hall 26 Dublin, The Ambassador, Ireland

DECEMBER 2001 20 London, Kentish Town, The Forum

JULY 2002 18 Hastings, Pier Pavillion 20 Seaton, Three Horseshoes Farm, Hawkwind Festival

OCTOBER 2002 19 London, Wembley, Wembley Arena

DECEMBER 2002 Hawkwind UK Christmas Tour 2002 04 Newcastle, Opera House 05 Hanley, Victoria Hall 06 Manchester, Academy 2 08 Liverpool, Lomax Nation 09 Leeds, Irish Centre 10 Northampton, Roadmender Centre 12 Brighton, Concorde 2 13 London, Walthamstow, Assembley Hall 15 Birmingham, The Academy (CANCELLED) 16 Bristol, The Academy (CANCELLED)

MAY 2003 Hawkwind Spring UK Tour 2003 18 Cambridge, The Junction 19 Nottingham, Rock City 25 London, Astoria Theatre 26 Bristol, The Academy 27 Birmingham, The Academy

JUNE 2003 21 Newquay, Hotel California, Private Function

JULY 2003 25 Pentrich, Coneygrey Showground, Custom Bike Show

AUGUST 2003 09 St. Michael's On Wyre, Hamilton House Farm, Hawkwind Festival (Early Show) 09 St. Michael's On Wyre, Hamilton House Farm, Hawkwind Festival (Late Show) 16 Wilhelmsthal, Kloster Cornberg Festival, Germany (CANCELLED) 17 Amsterdam, Milky Way, Holland

OCTOBER 2003 25 Exeter, Phoenix Arts Centre

DECEMBER 2003 21 London, Astoria Theatre

APRIL 2004 17 Godmanchester, Celtic Warriors Birthday Bash (CANCELLED) Hawkwind Spring UK Tour 2004 18 Norwich, The Waterfront 20 Salisbury, City Hall 22 Glasgow, The Cathouse 23 Aberdeen, The Forum 25 Manchester, The Ritz 27 Portsmouth, Pyramids Centre 28 Brighton, Concorde 2 29 Cardiff, Coal Exchange 30 Northampton, Roadmender Centre

MAY 2004 02 Wolverhampton, Wulfren Hall 04 Dublin, The Ambassador, Ireland 05 Belfast, The Limelight, Northern Ireland 20 Thessaloniki, Mylos Club, Greece 21 Athens, Gagarin 205, Greece

JUNE 2004 11 Solvesborg, Sweden Rock Festival, Sweden

JULY 2004 10 Ruissalo, Ruisrock Music Festival, Finland 17 Breitenbach, Burg Herzberg Music Festival, Germany

OCTOBER 2004 23 Cheltenham, Town Hall 28 Bournemouth, B.I.C

DECEMBER 2004 Hawkwind UK Christmas Tour 2004 04 Newcastle, Journal Tyne Theatre 09 Telford, Oakengates Theatre 10 Swindon, Oasis Dome 11 Southampton, The Guildhall (CANCELLED) 14 Nottingham, Rock City (CANCELLED) 15 Hanley, Victoria Hall (CANCELLED) 17 Cambridge, Corn Exchange 18 Exeter, Phoenix Arts Centre 19 London, Astoria Theatre 20 Manchester, Academy 2 21 Birkenhead, Pacific Road Arts Centre

MAY 2005 04 Bergen, Music Festival, Norway Hawkwind Take Me To Your Leader UK Tour 2005 (part 1) 18 Middlesbrough, The Empire 19 Blackburn, King George's Hall 21 Sheffield, The Corporation 22 Wolverhampton, Wulfren Hall 23 Nottingham, Rock City 26 Helsinki, Tavastia, Finland 27 Tampere, Kubli, Finland JUNE 2005 03 Croydon, Fairfield Halls 17 Giessen, Brauerei, 1 Day Of Love & Peace Festival, Germany 18 St. Goarshausen, Loreley, 3 Days Of Love & Peace Festival, Germany

JULY 2005 15 Dour, Music Festival, Belgium

SEPTEMBER 2005 01 London, Borderline Club, 'Take Me To Your Leader' Launch Party 03 Castle Donington, Farmhouse Hotel, Off The Tracks Festival

NOVEMBER 2005 04 Thessaloniki, Mylos Club, Greece 05 Athens, Gagarin 205, Greece

DECEMBER 2005 Hawkwind Take Me To Your Leader UK Tour 2005 (part 2) 15 Birkenhead, Pacific Road Arts Centre 16 Manchester, Academy 2 20 Dudley, J.B's Club 21 London, Astoria Theatre

APRIL 2006 07 Exeter, Phoenix Arts Centre 22 Tilburg, Roadburn Festival, Holland

JULY 2006 22 Somerleyton Hall Estate, Somerleyton, nr Lowestoft, Eastern Haze Festival

AUGUST 2006 05 Villiers Sur Yonne, Festival de L'alambic Electrique, France (CANCELLED)

OCTOBER 2006 24 Northampton, The Deco 25 Cambridge, The Junction 26 Norwich, University Of East Anglia 28 Morecombe, The Dome 29 Wolverhampton, Wulfren Hall 30 Leeds, Irish Centre 31 Derby, Assembly Rooms

NOVEMBER 2006 03 Haarlem, The Patronaat, Holland

DECEMBER 2006 14 Bangor University 15 Manchester, Academy 2 16 Holmfirth, The Picturedrome 18 Rotherham, Magna, Face Of Steel 20 London, Astoria Theatre

JUNE 2007 16 Castle Donington, Farmhouse Hotel, Hawkwind Festival 23 Bethlehem, Zoellner Arts Centre, Nearfest, PA 24 Allentown, Sterling Hotel, PA 25 Brooklyn, Europa Club, NY

JULY 2007 14 Honiton, Manor House School, Private Party

OCTOBER 2007 02 Sao Paulo, Teatro Do Sesi, Brazil 07 Rio De Janeiro, Clube Vila Da Feira, Brazil 10 Macae, Teatro Municipal De Macae, Brazil

DECEMBER 2007 Hawkwind Space Days UK Tour 2007 12 Wolverhampton, Wulfren Hall 13 Holmfirth, The Picturedrome 14 Manchester, Academy 2 (CANCELLED) 15 Exeter, Phoenix Arts Centre 19 London, Astoria Theatre

MARCH 2008 28 Preston, 53 Degrees 29 Manchester, Academy 2 30 Sheffield, The Plug

JUNE 2008 07 Hereford, Wyeside Festival

JULY 2008 12 Ostrava, Colours Of Ostrava Festival, Czech Republic 26 Honiton, Hawkwind Festival

AUGUST 2008 02 Scheveningen, Schollenpop Festival, Holland 08 Fordham, Fordham Music Festival 23 Poitou Charentes, Crescendo Rock Festival, France

DECEMBER 2008 04 Glasgow, The Academy 05 Newcastle, The Academy 06 Prestatyn, Hard Rock Hall 07 Cardiff, The Point 08 Exeter, University 10 Wolverhampton, Wulfren Hall 11 Nottingam, Rock City 12 Manchester, Academy 2 13 Falmouth, Princess Pavillion 14 Frome, Cheese && Grain 15 Southampton, The Brook 16 London, Astoria Theatre

July 8, 2016 Piazzola Sul Brenta Padova, ITY (cancelled. Close To The Moon, Prog Rock Festival )

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A typically psychedelic show from Hawkwind.

Acid, nudity and sci-fi nightmares: why Hawkwind were the radicals of 1970s rock

Dismissed by the press at the time, and now all but forgotten by many, we need a reminder of the mind-blowing band who ushered in punk and multimedia raves

E arly evening, 13 July 1972, and something strange and rather wonderful is about to happen. On the previous edition of Top of the Pops, David Bowie had both entranced and outraged the nation by casually draping his arm around Mick Ronson, but this week’s show is set to feature a performance that will prompt just as many excited playground discussions as Bowie’s.

The studio cuts to the gloom of a provincial dance hall, and a shot of a crowd already in the throes of what looks like religious ecstasy. On stage, a striking young woman with a silver face salutes the air and then enacts a secret ceremony, as a dirty whoosh of crunching guitar and pounding drums begins to pour from the TV. A band member frenziedly shakes a flute above his head like a space-age sceptre; another stoops over a table of mysterious electronic devices. The bass-playing singer steps up to the mic and bellows, “I just took a ride in a Silver Machine…”

This is Hawkwind in all their scuzzy, interstellar glory, the underground’s biggest band promoting their new single – less than a year later, and with a million copies of it sold, they’ll be headlining Wembley. It tends to be forgotten just how big this band of west London renegades were in the 1970s, playing to audiences of thousands wherever they went. They’re misremembered now, and were often misrepresented at the time, but as I discovered when writing a book about them, Hawkwind’s story amounts to an alternative narrative for 70s music culture – very different to the one that’s lazily trotted out by scene historians.

Perhaps the biggest misconception about Hawkwind is that they were some kind of leftover from the 60s era of peace and love. Melody Maker’s review of Silver Machine evoked visions of “kaftans and beads,” a band of hippy-dippy idealists who didn’t realise that the age of Aquarius was over. But a quick listen to their legendary 1973 live album Space Ritual should immediately disabuse anybody of that notion, a ferocious torrent of noise and “a black fucking nightmare” (as Lemmy , the man who sang Silver Machine, memorably put it), where Hawkwind channel the paranoid, apocalyptic vibe of the 70s more convincingly than any of their contemporaries.

In fact, while prog rock bands such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer thought they were reinventing popular music by aligning it more closely with the classical canon, Hawkwind were genuinely future-facing and completely unbothered by ideas of tradition or authenticity. Michael Moorcock , the firebrand science-fiction author who often appeared with the band, described them as “barbarians with electronics”, unafraid of technology and what it could do. We wouldn’t bat an eyelid these days at a band that featured avowed “non-musicians”, but Hawkwind’s lack of interest in virtuosity irked the music press, who routinely criticised them for “bashing their riffs around for several minutes on end with no appreciable textural variation” (per the NME).

The press also characterised the band’s audience as dyed in the wool hippies “replete with grubby Afghan jackets”, said Melody Maker – but they couldn’t have been more wrong. While there would certainly be plenty of greatcoats at their gigs, Hawkwind’s core fanbase were young working-class men, unimpressed by the pseudo-classicism of prog and bored by rock elders such as the Stones and the Who . They came to experience something they couldn’t get anywhere else.

In the early days, as Hawkwind spread the counterculture to every corner of the country, this meant access to underground newspapers, free acid (saxophonist Nik Turner had a copious supply of liquid LSD) and onstage nudity (both from dancer Stacia and drummer Terry Ollis) – prompting conflict with the authorities, with manager Doug Smith claiming the band were “subjected to police investigation 68 times in the first few years”. But as Hawkwind’s following grew, so did their shows, becoming multimedia spectacles that combined retina-frying projections with dance and spoken word. In other words, the audiovisual equivalent of a trip, and in tandem with the rhythmic relentlessness of Hawkwind’s music, arguably the UK’s first raves.

Robert Calvert, Dave Brock and friend at Reading festival 1977.

Yet amid all this sound and fury, Hawkwind were becoming increasingly sophisticated. They were one of the first bands to develop a cohesive visual identity thanks to the dazzling artwork and conceptual design of Barney Bubbles, the man who would also be responsible for creating some of punk’s most striking images. But it was with the arrival of frontman and poet Robert Calvert that Hawkwind transformed from space rockers into a fully fledged science-fiction band. Along with David Bowie, Calvert was one of the few artists of the time who understood how SF could be used to dramatise and critique the modern world. A brilliant lyricist, distinctive vocalist and master of “spontaneous theatre”, it’s not a stretch to talk about Calvert and Bowie in the same breath.

But crucially, Hawkwind remained an underground band committed to doing things on their own terms, a rallying point for anti-establishment feeling and mainstream resistance. While the press often failed to understand their appeal, Melody Maker presciently noted: “There’s a Hawkwind cult now that’s almost as vital to their gigs as the music … Hordes of dedicated teenagers regard them as the revolution personified, and some of them must be ticking off the days to the takeover with increasing impatience.”

With their mood of anarchic possibility, Hawkwind gigs were a breeding ground for young punks everywhere, those “dedicated teenagers” coming of age and striking out on their own. John Lydon was a regular presence at their gigs in the early 70s, and was taken under Calvert’s wing at the height of Sex Pistols mania, with the self-proclaimed antichrist attending the singer’s wedding reception. Coming out of the same Ladbroke Grove milieu, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of the Clash had grown up in Hawkwind’s world, while Brian James and Captain Sensible of the Damned were also fans.

It wasn’t just the noise of Hawkwind that excited and inspired this new generation – though Dave Brock’s distinctive choppy guitar style certainly influenced them – but their attitude as well. Hawkwind showed that you didn’t have to play by the rules of the music industry; you really could do it yourself. As Joy Division and New Order’s Stephen Morris has said: “Punk rock started because in every small town there was somebody who liked Hawkwind.” Rather than just a footnote in the history of punk, Hawkwind are an integral part of its creation story.

Adrian Shaw, Simon House, Robert Calvert and Simon King in 1977.

In many ways, Hawkwind have been victims of their own longevity. In March 1978, at the end of an underwhelming American tour, they split up, their mission seemingly at an end. As it was, they quickly reconfigured themselves as the new wave-anticipating Hawklords, before reverting back to their original name a year later. But what if they’d stayed split up? Would they have been reappraised by the media cognoscenti and talked of in the same reverent tones as the likes of Can ? Or more likely, would they have remained marginalised and maligned, the eternal square peg in the round hole of British music culture?

Despite their muted legacy, I would argue that Hawkwind were one of the most revolutionary bands to come out of Britain in the 1970s – perhaps the most. Avatars of the underground, figureheads of the free festival, and heralds of punk, they remain a true maverick force and an inspiration for contrarians everywhere.

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Everything You Need to Know About Hawkwind

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. Instead, Hawkwind (along with the Deviants, the Pink Fairies and the Edgar Broughton Band) took psychedelia and twisted it into their own distinct sound. It was one defined by a rough, anarchic, street-level mentality. In a way, they drained any intellectualism associated with the psychedelic experience from the mix, distilling it to its purest hallucinogenic form. Still, many music fans are largely unaware of the band's many contributions. Are you one of them? Well, here's Everything You Need to Know About Hawkwind ...

YEARS OF OPERATION : 1969 - Present

ORIGINAL LINEUP : Dave Brock – vocals, guitars / Nik Turner – saxophone, flute, vocals / Mick Slattery - guitar (left before they made their first album) / Dik Mik – keyboards, synthesisers / Terry Ollis – drums / the late John Harrison – bass / the late Huw Lloyd Langton – guitar, vocals

CLASSIC LINEUP (1971-75) : Dave Brock – guitar, vocals / Nik Turner – saxophone, flute, vocals / Lemmy (Ian Kilmister) – bass guitar, vocals / Dik Mik – keyboards, electronics / Del Dettmar – synthesizers / Simon King – drums / Robert Calvert – vocals

KEY DISCOGRAPHY : In Search of Space (1971) / Doremi Fasol Latido (1972) / Space Ritual (1973) / In the Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974) / Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975) / Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977)

Hawkwind actually began as an outgrowth of the psychedelic movement. Leader Dave Brock first got his feet wet with an acoustic guitar, busking on street corners. He soon joined forces with Nik Turner and Mick Slatery to form Group X. With the addition of Dik Mik, Terry Ollis and Huw Lloyd Langton, and the departure of Slatery, they took on the name Hawkwind -- then replaced a "doors of perception" motif with a more science fiction-themed take, thanks to author Michael Moorcock, and Robert Calvert.

In addition, they emphasized the pulsing urgency of the rhythm as much as the ethereal -- helpig to create "space rock." The band had a surprise hit single in the summer of 1972 with "Silver Machine," which rose to No. 3 in the UK charts. Their live shows remain the stuff of legend. It was an over-the-top sensory overload complete with naked dancer, disorienting light show, and volume set very, very loud.

That same year, they took the show on the road with the legendary Space Ritual tour. "It was like Star Trek with long hair ... and drugs," said Lemmy in a BBC Hawkwind documentary. "We weren't like the f--in' Pink Floyd ," he continued, "We were like a f--in' black nightmare. We used to lock the doors so people couldn't get out!"

Their influence can be found over many years and various sub genres. Just as "stoner rock" bands such as Monster Magnet and Kyuss , shoegazers like My Bloody Valentine or Spiritualized , or punk pioneers John Lydon and Jello Biafra.

Many members, somewhere around 50, would wander through the history of Hawkwind, but none as prominent as Lemmy. After being fired from the band by Brock in 1975 for carrying drugs across the border to Canada, Lemmy wasted no time in getting his own band together . Named after his the title of his final contribution to Hawkwind, Motorhead went on to change the sound and shape of hard rock for years to follow. Dave Brock still carries on under the Hawkwind name, though he is the sole original member. In recent years, he has incorporated elements of techno and rave into the mix.

The band has, seemingly, always been surrounded by internal drama ranging from ego, to drugs, to mental illness. After years of legal squabbles between Nik Turner and Dave Brock over the rights to the name, Nik was finally allowed to use the name 'Nik Turner's Hawkwind' in his concert billings , and in staying true to the classic early '70s sound, he represents their legacy very convincingly. In 2010, former members Harvey Bainbridge and Adrian Shaw regrouped under the name Hawkords (the name of a one-off studio LP from 1978) emphasizing the more streamlined style of the late-'70s Hawkwind lineup.

Over the years, the legend and influence of Hawkwind has continued to grow. Though written off by many over the years as nothing more than a bunch of long-haired stoners, time has proven their catalog to be a more varied animal, gaining them much deserved respect over time. Of their many releases, most of the prime catalog remains easily available. Though they have been with us for going on 50 years, it is Hawkwind's first decade that remains the cornerstone of their legacy.

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Hawkwind celebrate their classic 1973 album with a giant reissue and extra-special live show.

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Hawkwind have been together for over half a century now in various forms, but for many their crowning achievement was their 1972 Space Ritual tour and the following year's live album

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the band have not just announced an absolutely mammoth reissue, but also a very special celebratory live show.

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The original Space Ritual album has been newly remastered from the original master tapes, while the deluxe 11 disc limited edition boxed set includes new mixes from the original 16-track masters of full concerts at Liverpool Stadium, Sunderland Locarno and Brixton Sundown.

The box-set also includes a Blu-ray 5.1 surround sound mix of the album, featuring the complete versions of 'Brainstorm', 'Time We Left This World Today' and 'You Shouldn't Do That', as well as a 68-page illustrated book and reproduction of the Space Ritual poster-format tour programme.

For those of you wanting something a little more compact, the reissued Space Ritual is also available in a 2CD and double transparent vinyl edition.

To celebrate the anniversary, the current Hawkwind lineup is playing a live show at the Royal Albert Hall on September 29.

Tickets for the night of Sonic Destruction are available now from the venue, with support coming from The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

The original shows took place during the band's UK tour in December 1972 and followed the release of the Doremi Fasol Latido album and the 'Silver Machine' single.

Featuring a light show by Liquid Len and backing dancers Stacia, Miss Renee and Tony Carrera, the show was a continuous performance linked by poetry recited by Robert Calvert.

The breakdown of the 11-discs on the special edition is as follows:

Discs 1 and 2: The original Space Ritual album re-mastered
Discs 3 and 4: Liverpool Stadium 22nd December 1972 New mix (previously unreleased)
Discs 5 and 6: Locarno Sunderland 23rd December 1972 New mix (previously unreleased)
Discs 7 and 8: Brixton Sundown, London 30th December 1972
Disc 9 and 10: Space Ritual 50th Anniversary Stereo Remix by Stephen W Tayler
Disc 11 (Blu-ray): Space Ritual 96 kHz / 24-bit 5.1 mix & new stereo mix By Stephen W Tayler

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HAWKWIND: 50th-Anniversary Edition Of 'Space Ritual' Due In September

Atomhenge , the home of HAWKWIND 's back catalog, has announced the release of a deluxe 50th-anniversary edition of HAWKWIND 's legendary live album "Space Ritual" . It was recorded on the band's U.K. tour of December 1972, which followed the release of the band's then-recent studio album "Doremi Fasol Latido" . The live show was a continuous performance linked by poetry recitation by Robert Calvert and was a complete audio-visual experience. Featuring the dancers Stacia , Miss Renee and Tony Carrera , the concerts also featured an elaborate light show by famed lighting designer Liquid Len .

The "Space Ritual" tour followed the huge success of the "Silver Machine" single (although the song did not feature in the live set) and three concerts were captured on tape by the Pye Records mobile unit. The resulting double album was adorned with memorable artwork by designer Barney Bubbles and was a Top 10 hit in the U.K. upon its release in May 1973.

Due on September 29, this 50th-anniversary limited-edition deluxe boxed set comprises 10 CDs and a Blu-ray disc and features a new remaster of the original album, along with new mixes of all three complete concerts recorded on the tour at Liverpool Stadium, Sunderland Locarno and Brixton Sundown, all mixed by Stephen W Tayler . The set also includes a stunning 5.1 Surround Sound mix of the album, along with a new stereo mix of the album, including the complete unedited versions of "Brainstorm" and "Time We Left This World Today" and the encore of "You Shouldn't Do That" . The set is completed with a 68-page illustrated book with new essay and a reproduction of the rare "Space Ritual" poster format tour program, making this box set the definitive release and this legendary album.

HAWKWIND were formed in 1969, originally as HAWKWIND ZOO , by former London busker Dave Brock . In 1970, the band appeared outside the perimeter fence of the Isle Of Wight festival as a protest to the admission charge. Jimi Hendrix was spotted in the audience. The same year they played at the first Glastonbury festival. These activities helped establish them as the people's band, as well as being widely acknowledged with creating a brand new genre of music — space rock. Also in that year the band's first single, "Hurry On Sundown" , was released followed by the self-titled debut album, "Hawkwind" .

By 1972, the band's popularity had grown to such an extent that they could now headline venues such as the famous Chalk Farm Roundhouse in London. A gig billed as the "Greasy Truckers Party" at this venue in February was to be forever etched into HAWKWIND folklore, as it was at this show that their trademark single "Silver Machine" was recorded. The track, which featured Lemmy on vocals, brought the band to the attention of the wider general public after it reached number two in the U.K. charts in the June of that year.

The success of "Silver Machine" financed their famous themed tour, titled "Space Ritual" . This show set the precedent for all future HAWKWIND shows. The band's wealth of creative talent, including contributions from the likes of sci-fi author Michael Moorcock , poet and visionary Bob Calvert , designer Barney Bubbles and lighting engineer Liquid Len created the world's first truly multimedia touring roadshow. The barrage of light, sound, dance and theatrics has since become a hallmark of all subsequent HAWKWIND shows, making each gig a unique and spectacular event, rather than another standard rock concert.

Following the "Space Ritual" U.K. tour, the band went on to continue the tour in the USA coinciding with the release of their acclaimed third album, "Doremi Fasol Latido" , and then the live recording "Space Ritual" .

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Sir Paul McCartney’s Wings tour bus could fetch up to £200,000 at auction

A bus once used by Sir Paul McCartney during the 1972 Wings Over Europe tour is going under the hammer at auction.

The eye-catching double-decker bus was used by Sir Paul and Linda McCartney, as well as the rest of Wings, to travel more than 7,500 miles across nine countries and 25 cities during the summer of 1972 – with its psychedelic colour scheme ensuring nobody missed it wherever it went.

Completely and faithfully restored to its original heyday condition, the bus features wooden bunk beds, bright yellow colours and a bespoke cover for the upper deck which features “1972 Wings Tour Bus” graphics.

The top deck itself has been engineered as a performance space – now referred to as The McCartney Stage.

Sold by Car and Classic via online auction, the bus could fetch up to £200,000 by the time the hammer falls. The auction is set to run from April 22-29.

The bus is accompanied by artefacts and memorabilia donated by founding Wings member Danny Seiwell, while an official licence permits the use of artwork, logos and the names of both Paul and Linda McCartney.

Dale Vinten, Car & Classic head of editorial, said: “Just as [John] Lennon’s Rolls-Royce and the notable cars of other Beatles members carry the weight of history, tour buses tell a different story, and bear witness to the behind-the-scenes magic that fuels the onstage brilliance.

“This essence is perfectly encapsulated in the Wings tour bus, still adorned in its psychedelic colours, and restored to how it would’ve been when the McCartneys and the rest of the band toured Europe over the summer of 72.”

The tour bus could fetch up to £200,000 at auction (Car and Classic)

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Hawkwind Concert Setlist at Liverpool Stadium, Liverpool on December 22
Hawkwind Gig Timeline. Dec 19 1972. Patti Pavilion Swansea, Wales. Add time. Dec 21 1972. King George's Hall Blackburn, England. Add time. Dec 22 1972. Liverpool Stadium This Setlist Liverpool, England.
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Tracks 1-3 to 2-11: Recorded at The Paris Theatre, London on September 28th, 1972. Broadcast October 14th, 1972. Tracks 1-1, 1-2 and 2-1 to 2-11: previously unreleased. Tracks 1-1 and 1-2, 2-1 to 2-11: ℗ 2010. Tracks 1-3 to 1-13: ℗ 1991. All tracks: The copyright in this sound recording is owned by the BBC.
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