“When I was growing up, and then in art college, there was a subculture of people into Gong and Hawkwind, who I had always dismissed as hippie bands. Then I heard the Calvert era, which got me into ...

Ex-Hawkwind member Nik Turner will play a one-off jamming session together with musician Godfrey Old on August 21st at Pentameters Theatre, Hampstead, to celebrate the work of poet, writer and fellow ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. By day, a large red Soviet naval flag flew from a makeshift tent pole, both as a gesture of ...

“People look back now and think of Hawkwind as this sort of hippie peace and love group. But it was never that,” says Lemmy, one of the band’s original self-styled ‘captains.’ “We weren’t looking for ...

Yet despite its undeserved reputation as an odds-and-sods compilation, it contains some of the Robert Calvert era’s finest material. With its eclectic selection of studio and ‘live’ tracks, it’s like ...

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, ...

Robert Calvert was one of the most charismatic and cutting-edge visionaries to emerge out of London's psych rock scene of the '60s & '70s, first as the frontman for the behemoth that is Hawkwind and ...

Recorded at shows in Liverpool and London, Hawkwind’s 1972 album The Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London arguably captures the psychedelic rock band at its peak. Attempting to be “a full ...

Born Robert Newton Calvert on 9 March 1945 in Pretoria, South Africa. Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two. At the end of the 1960s he moved to London and joined the flourishing ...

Robert Calvert (Bob Calvert or Capt’n Bob to Hawkwind fans) was one of the true British originals in the manner of Viv Stanshall or Brian Eno and his death in 1988 was a sad loss to both the worlds of ...