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3 unusual facts about Nik Turner


Hawkwind 1997

#"Brainstorm" (Nik Turner) / "Hawkwind In Your Area" (Rizz/Brock) – The Empire, Liverpool, 23 October

Sleepyard

The band have now completed a version of Chocolate river for an upcoming Sky Sunlight Saxon tribute album with Nik Turner on saxophone.

This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic

The group's line-up had changed by this point, with guitarists Dave Brock and Huw Lloyd-Langton, and saxophonist Nik Turner remaining, and Harvey Bainbridge switching from bass to keyboards.


Androids of Mu

Emerging from associations with the hippy-orientated Here & Now, Nik Turner, Gong's Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth, the Androids of Mu gathered together under the apron of the Frestonia squatter community in Notting Dale, West London, notable in its time for producing non-conformist music.

Inner City Unit

Steve Pond, Dead Fred and Mick Stupp still play together in a band called Krankschaft, sometimes joined by Nik Turner and Dave Anderson and Dino Ferari to perform Inner City Unit songs as a tribute to Judge Trev Thoms.

Simon House

Along with other Hawkwind members, he guested on science fiction author Michael Moorcock's New World's Fair in 1975 and has also played on solo projects by former Hawkwind members Robert Calvert and Nik Turner.

Sonic Attack

An additional seven date Christmas followed, which saw former members Robert Calvert, Nik Turner and Moorcock guest on the London Rainbow date.


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