Well they’re not hanging around are they? Brock into his 80s, another Hawkwind studio album already. This just in, a new Hawkwind studio album, due out on April 5th and well, after last year’s return to form, we’re rather hopeful. Here’s the brief press release, more from us once the album lands…

“Legendary rock band Hawkwind have announced a brand-new studio album, Stories From Time And Space. The album was mastered at Abbey Road Studios and follows their critically acclaimed 2023 album The Future Never Waits. Their 36th studio album stands as an outstanding progression to the space-age, trademark Hawkwind sound and a superb addition to their varied and celebrated catalogue.    

From the futuristic, synth laden opener of Our Lives Can’t Last Forever and innovative psychedelic swirl of The Starship (One Love One Life) and Traveller of Time & Space, to the lamenting saxophones and menacing riffs of What Are We Going To Do While We’re Here and Stargazers, the band deliver thirteen tracks of classic material. The album has everything Hawkwind fans new and old could ask for – from Dave Brock’s trademark vocals and chugging guitar riffs to roaming solos, gradual melancholic crescendos and rapturous peaks, it’s a record that sits tightly in the Hawkwind groove, delivering an intense concentrated fusion of musical styles.

Stories From Time And Space is presented by Dave Brock, Richard Chadwick, Magnus Martin, Doug MacKinnon and Tim “Thighpaulsandra” Lewis on both CD and double vinyl and will be released to coincide with live shows in the spring and summer.

www.hawkwind.com

Organ was of course originally launched at a Hawkwind gig in the 80’s. One day we’re going to have t ogather together all te interviews with variousHawks we’ve published over the many forms of Organ. Go here for more relatively recent Hawkwind coverage on these pages

 
Live Dates:
Wednesday 3rd April – Wulfrum Hall, Wolverhampton
Thursday 4th April – Academy, Manchester
Friday 5th April – O2 City Hall, Newcastle
Saturday 6th April – O2 Academy, Edinburgh
Sunday 7th April – O2 Academy, Glasgow
Monday 8th April – Mandela Hall, Belfast
Saturday 15th June – Northern Kin Festival, Durham
Friday 16th August – Forum, Bath
Saturday 17th August – A New Day Festival, Kent
 
Track List:
1.    Our Lives Can’t Last Forever
2.    The Starship (One Love One Life)
3.    What Are We Going To Do While We’re Here
4.    The Tracker
5.    Eternal Light
6.    Till I Found You
7.    Underwater City
8.    The Night Sky
9.    Traveller of Time & Space
10.    Re-generate
11.    The Black Sea
12.    Frozen In Time
13.    Stargazers

Hawkwind via the best of 2023 radio show – ORGAN: The New Years Eve Organ radio show on Resonance FM, the playlist, the links and the details and if you missed it then listen back to the show here…

The best 43 albums that came our way in 2023 – ORGAN: Our best 43 albums of a very musically busy 2023. Who did we rate?