Nik Turner
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Nik Turner is a British
musician, best known as a founding member of space rock
pioneers Hawkwind
. Turner plays saxophone
s, flute
, sings and is a composer. While with Hawkwind, Turner was known for his experimental free jazz
stylisations and outrageous stage presence, often donning full makeup and Ancient Egypt
-inspired costumes.
seaside resort of Margate
where he would work at the local funfair during the summer holiday season, befriending another seasonal worker Robert Calvert
. His first influences were Rock and Roll
and the films of James Dean
.
He went on to complete an engineering course and then undertook one voyage in the Merchant Navy. He then set about travelling around Europe picking up menial jobs, and it was during a stint as a roustabout in a travelling music circus in 1967 that he made the acquaintance of Dave Brock
in Haarlem
, Netherlands
.
He had two years of clarinet and saxophone lessons in the early 1960s but never considered himself good enough to pursue it seriously. However, whilst travelling around Europe he encountered some free jazz players in Berlin
who impressed upon him the importance of expression over technical proficiency, and it was then that he decided that what he "wanted to do was play free jazz in a rock band".
Of his playing, Turner admitted that "it's the overall feel rather than the individual parts of the music that we're interested in. I don't have any illusions about my technical ability. I tend to use it as an electronic medium rather than an instrument". He became an active and vocal member of the band, pulling in friends such as Dik Mik, Calvert and Barney Bubbles
, and involving the band in community and charity projects, sometimes to the chagrin of the others.
NME
- September 1972
He was a member of the band during their most commercially successful and critically acclaimed period, writing or co-writing some of their most popular songs such as "Brainstorm" and "Master of the Universe". However, complaints about his playing over other members of the band despite numerous requests to modify his behaviour eventually led to his dismissal in November 1976.
In 1982 during the recording of Choose Your Masques
, Brock invited Turner to the recording sessions and he was asked to front the band for the album's tour. Turner's second stint in the band lasted just over 2 years and although some live albums and videos were released, the band did not undertake any studio recording. At the end of 1984 while preparing material for the The Chronicle of the Black Sword album, he was sacked once again.
and while visiting the Great Pyramid of Giza
he was given three hours inside the King's Chamber to record some flute music. On returning to England, Steve Hillage
cleaned up the tapes and assembled the Sphynx band featuring Hawkwind's Alan Powell
, Gong's Mike Howlett
and Tim Blake
, and Harry Williamson
to record music augmenting the original flute tracks while Turner adapted lyrics from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The album was released as Xitintoday
on Charisma records in 1978 and the band toured, played festivals including Deeply Vale Festivals
(later released as a CD), Glastonbury Festival
(part of which was broadcast BBC television) and his own themed Bohemian Love-In all day festival at the Roundhouse.
With Williamson he conceived the "Nuclear Waste" single featuring many of the Sphynx musicians and a lead vocal by Sting. He then guested on the album Fairy Tales by Williamson and Gilli Smyth
's project Mother Gong, and out of this he, Mo Vicarage and Ermanno Ghisio-Erba (a.k.a. Dino Ferari) formed Inner City Unit with Trev Thoms
and Dead Fred
. The band recorded the albums Pass Out and Maximum Effect before collapsing due to certain members drug problems. Turner and Dead Fred had stints in Hawkwind before regrouping to release the albums New Anatomy, The President Tapes and the EP Blood and Bone.
and rhythm and blues
band. They gigged for several years, eventually releasing the album Kubanno Kickasso!.
Turner and Twink
got together for some impromptu live performances under the name Pinkwind, two CDs of which were released on Twink's own record label without the permission of Turner.
In 1993 Turner was approached by Pressurehed and Helios Creed
to record another version of his Sphynx project using the original flute tracks, resulting in the album Sphynx. This partnership then developed further, regularly touring in the US performing a set of Hawkwind-centred material sometimes featuring Genesis P-Orridge
, Jello Biafra
and former Hawkwind members Simon House
, Del Dettmar and Powell. One studio album Prophets of Time was released in 1994 followed by the live CD and DVD Space Ritual 1994 Live and another live CD Past or Future? in 1996. Out of this set of musicians formed the band Anubian Lights centred around Len Del Rio and Tommy Greñas from Pressurehed with contributions from Turner, Dettmar and House, as did the band Spiral Realms centred around House and Rio.
Turner has resurrected another version of Inner City Unit with Thoms, performing irregular gigs. He also fronts the "psychedelic latino-funk" band Galaktikos. He continues to attend festivals playing and guesting whenever possible and is an eager contributor to other band's projects, such as recording an album and touring with US space rockers Spaceseed
in 2004, and live appearances with UK dance outfit Akahum
at BGG Shareholders Party & HEADS Haiti Benefit show. Living in Carmarthen, he often busks playing his saxophone in Cardiff
city centre during weekend nights.
After playing at "Hawkfan Festival", Hamburg summer 1997 and Space And Rock Festival - Rocksjon, Jonkoping, Sweden 8/14-15/98 with Finnish space rock group "Dark Sun", they moved to play at Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland. This resulted to Live-LP/CD "Ice Ritual", released in 2000.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
musician, best known as a founding member of space rock
Space rock
Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electric organs, synthesizers, experimental...
pioneers Hawkwind
Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....
. Turner plays saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
s, flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, sings and is a composer. While with Hawkwind, Turner was known for his experimental free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
stylisations and outrageous stage presence, often donning full makeup and Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
-inspired costumes.
1940-69: Early years
Turner was born in Oxford in August 1940 to a theatrical family, although his father was working in a munitions factory. At the age of 13 his family moved to the KentKent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
seaside resort of Margate
Margate
-Demography:As of the 2001 UK census, Margate had a population of 40,386.The ethnicity of the town was 97.1% white, 1.0% mixed race, 0.5% black, 0.8% Asian, 0.6% Chinese or other ethnicity....
where he would work at the local funfair during the summer holiday season, befriending another seasonal worker Robert Calvert
Robert Calvert
Robert Calvert was a writer, poet, and musician.-Biography:Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age and later attended school in London and Margate. He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street...
. His first influences were Rock and Roll
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
and the films of James Dean
James Dean
James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark...
.
He went on to complete an engineering course and then undertook one voyage in the Merchant Navy. He then set about travelling around Europe picking up menial jobs, and it was during a stint as a roustabout in a travelling music circus in 1967 that he made the acquaintance of Dave Brock
Dave Brock
David Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...
in Haarlem
Haarlem
Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
.
He had two years of clarinet and saxophone lessons in the early 1960s but never considered himself good enough to pursue it seriously. However, whilst travelling around Europe he encountered some free jazz players in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
who impressed upon him the importance of expression over technical proficiency, and it was then that he decided that what he "wanted to do was play free jazz in a rock band".
1969-76 and 1982-84: Hawkwind
Turner, owning a van, had originally offered his services as a roadie to the newly formed Hawkwind. However, when the band discovered his passion for the saxophone he was offered a position in the band to add to the overall weirdness of their sound.Of his playing, Turner admitted that "it's the overall feel rather than the individual parts of the music that we're interested in. I don't have any illusions about my technical ability. I tend to use it as an electronic medium rather than an instrument". He became an active and vocal member of the band, pulling in friends such as Dik Mik, Calvert and Barney Bubbles
Barney Bubbles
Colin Fulcher aka Barney Bubbles was a radical English graphic artist, whose work primarily encompassed the disciplines of graphic design, painting and music video direction. He is most renowned for his distinctive contribution to the graphic design associated with the British independent music...
, and involving the band in community and charity projects, sometimes to the chagrin of the others.
NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
- September 1972
He was a member of the band during their most commercially successful and critically acclaimed period, writing or co-writing some of their most popular songs such as "Brainstorm" and "Master of the Universe". However, complaints about his playing over other members of the band despite numerous requests to modify his behaviour eventually led to his dismissal in November 1976.
In 1982 during the recording of Choose Your Masques
Choose Your Masques
Choose Your Masques is the thirteenth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1982. It spent five weeks on the UK albums chart peaking at #29....
, Brock invited Turner to the recording sessions and he was asked to front the band for the album's tour. Turner's second stint in the band lasted just over 2 years and although some live albums and videos were released, the band did not undertake any studio recording. At the end of 1984 while preparing material for the The Chronicle of the Black Sword album, he was sacked once again.
1977-86: Sphynx and Inner City Unit
After leaving Hawkwind the first time, Turner holidayed in EgyptEgypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
and while visiting the Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact...
he was given three hours inside the King's Chamber to record some flute music. On returning to England, Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
cleaned up the tapes and assembled the Sphynx band featuring Hawkwind's Alan Powell
Alan Powell
Alan Powell is a drummer who was mainly active during the 1970s.In 1964 Alan joined Manchester R&B band Ivans Meads who released their first single for EMI label "Sins of a Family" followed in 1965 with "We'll Talk about it Tomorrow"...
, Gong's Mike Howlett
Mike Howlett
Mike Howlett is a Fijian-born musician, Grammy Award winning producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia....
and Tim Blake
Tim Blake
Timothy 'Tim' Blake , keyboards, vocalist instrumentalist and composer with both Gong, and Hawkwind. Blake is best known for his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Patrice Warrener...
, and Harry Williamson
Harry Williamson
Harry Williamson is a British musician, producer and inventor.He is the son of noted author Henry Williamson and his second wife Christine Duffield. Divorced, one daughter Bee Williamson...
to record music augmenting the original flute tracks while Turner adapted lyrics from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The album was released as Xitintoday
Xitintoday
Xitintoday is a studio album released by Nik Turner's Sphynx in 1978.- Track listing :All tracks composed by Nik Turner#"The Awakening " - 4:20#"The Pyramid Spell" - 4:18#"The Hall of Double Truth" - 6:00#"Anubis" - 4:39...
on Charisma records in 1978 and the band toured, played festivals including Deeply Vale Festivals
Deeply Vale Festivals
The Deeply Vale Festivals were a unique free festival held in northwest England in 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. It is regarded as the one of significant events that united punk music into the festival scene.-Deeply Vale Free Festival:...
(later released as a CD), Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...
(part of which was broadcast BBC television) and his own themed Bohemian Love-In all day festival at the Roundhouse.
With Williamson he conceived the "Nuclear Waste" single featuring many of the Sphynx musicians and a lead vocal by Sting. He then guested on the album Fairy Tales by Williamson and Gilli Smyth
Gilli Smyth
Gilli Smyth is a musician who performed with the bands Gong, Mother Gong and Planet Gong as well as several solo albums and albums in collaborations other members of Gong...
's project Mother Gong, and out of this he, Mo Vicarage and Ermanno Ghisio-Erba (a.k.a. Dino Ferari) formed Inner City Unit with Trev Thoms
Trev Thoms
Trev Thoms also known as Judge Trev Thoms and Judge Trev was a British guitarist.In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he played in a blues-rock group with hints of progressive rock and heavy rock called Iron Maiden - not the famous group of the same name - along with Barry Skeels, who later played...
and Dead Fred
Dead Fred
Dead Fred is mainly known as the keyboard player in 1980 space rock / hard rock bands Inner City Unit and Hawkwind.Prior to ICU/Hawkwind he had a long and varied career in the UK music scene....
. The band recorded the albums Pass Out and Maximum Effect before collapsing due to certain members drug problems. Turner and Dead Fred had stints in Hawkwind before regrouping to release the albums New Anatomy, The President Tapes and the EP Blood and Bone.
1987-99
Turner's next project was Nik Turner's Fantastic All Stars, a sax and Hammond organ driven jazzJazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
band. They gigged for several years, eventually releasing the album Kubanno Kickasso!.
Turner and Twink
Twink (musician)
John Charles Alder , better known as Twink, is an English drummer, singer and songwriter who was a central figure in the English psychedelic movement, and an actor.-Early life and career:...
got together for some impromptu live performances under the name Pinkwind, two CDs of which were released on Twink's own record label without the permission of Turner.
In 1993 Turner was approached by Pressurehed and Helios Creed
Helios Creed
Helios Creed is an American guitarist, singer and bandleader. He first came to prominence in the mid 1970s with the San Francisco band Chrome. They are credited with being the godfathers of what later became known as Industrial Rock music...
to record another version of his Sphynx project using the original flute tracks, resulting in the album Sphynx. This partnership then developed further, regularly touring in the US performing a set of Hawkwind-centred material sometimes featuring Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution,...
, Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra
Jello Biafra is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys...
and former Hawkwind members Simon House
Simon House
Simon House is a composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind. His arrival in 1974 introduced a new element to the band's style...
, Del Dettmar and Powell. One studio album Prophets of Time was released in 1994 followed by the live CD and DVD Space Ritual 1994 Live and another live CD Past or Future? in 1996. Out of this set of musicians formed the band Anubian Lights centred around Len Del Rio and Tommy Greñas from Pressurehed with contributions from Turner, Dettmar and House, as did the band Spiral Realms centred around House and Rio.
2000-present
On 21 October 2000 at the Brixton Academy a Hawkestra event took place, featuring nearly all past members of Hawkwind. Disagreements between various participants led to any restaging of the event being unlikely but Turner did stage a further event under the banner The Greasy Truckers Party featuring members of the Hawkestra on 21 October 2001 at the London Astoria. Out of this a loose band formed, performing further gigs and eventually using the name xhawkwind.com. An appearance at Guilfest in 2002 led to confusion as to whether this actually was Hawkwind, sufficiently irking Brock into taking legal action to prohibit Turner from trading under the name Hawkwind, a case which Turner lost. The band settled on the name Space Ritual and are still currently active.Turner has resurrected another version of Inner City Unit with Thoms, performing irregular gigs. He also fronts the "psychedelic latino-funk" band Galaktikos. He continues to attend festivals playing and guesting whenever possible and is an eager contributor to other band's projects, such as recording an album and touring with US space rockers Spaceseed
Spaceseed
Spaceseed is a North American space rock act founded in 1988 in Atlanta Georgia by guitarist John Pack.The group spent a number of years "testing" ideas in the studio as well as performing live at events like Lollapalooza and a myriad of chic clubs...
in 2004, and live appearances with UK dance outfit Akahum
Akahum
AKAHUM is the brainchild of David Unlimbo, accompanied by Zoltan Finger, Zenga Bloem, Charlie Rascal and Mark Mindflux evolving from 90's space rock jam band Unlimbo.-History:...
at BGG Shareholders Party & HEADS Haiti Benefit show. Living in Carmarthen, he often busks playing his saxophone in Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
city centre during weekend nights.
After playing at "Hawkfan Festival", Hamburg summer 1997 and Space And Rock Festival - Rocksjon, Jonkoping, Sweden 8/14-15/98 with Finnish space rock group "Dark Sun", they moved to play at Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland. This resulted to Live-LP/CD "Ice Ritual", released in 2000.
Discography
- For Turner's work as a member of Inner City Unit, see the Inner City UnitInner City UnitInner City Unit is a British punk/space rock band fronted by ex-Hawkwind founder Nik Turner on saxophone with Judge Trev Thoms or Steve Pond , Dead Fred , Baz Magneto, Dave Anderson or Nazar Ali Khan , and Mick Stupp or Dino Ferari on drums.-History:Thoms and Ferrari were both key members of...
article. For his work as a member of Space Ritual, see the Space Ritual (band)Space Ritual (band)Space Ritual are a British space rock band, formed in 2000 fronted by Nik Turner, and composed principally of former Hawkwind members. They play a mix of early Hawkwind material and their own compositions.-History:...
article.
As a member of Hawkwind
- 1970 – HawkwindHawkwind (album)Hawkwind is the self-titled debut album by Hawkwind, released in 1970, originally on Liberty Records.-Recording:Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor, who was looking for a new venture after leaving the band, was pulled into Hawkwind playing some gigs and producing this album...
- 1971 – X in Search of Space
- 1972 – Doremi Fasol LatidoDoremi Fasol LatidoDoremi Fasol Latido is the third studio album from Hawkwind, released in 1972. It reached #14 on the UK album charts.-New Members:The rhythm section of Dave Anderson and Terry Ollis was replaced by Lemmy and Simon King, both of whose style differed notably from their predecessors. This changed the...
- 1973 – Space RitualSpace RitualThe Space Ritual Alive in Liverpool and London is a 1973 live double album recorded in 1972 by UK rock band Hawkwind. It is their fourth album, reached #9 in the UK album charts and briefly dented the Billboard Top 200, peaking at #179....
- 1974 – Hall of the Mountain GrillHall of the Mountain GrillHall of the Mountain Grill is the fourth studio album by space rock band Hawkwind, released in 1974. It is regarded by many critics and fans as a career highlight.-Overview:...
- 1975 – Warrior on the Edge of TimeWarrior on the Edge of TimeWarrior on the Edge of Time is Hawkwind's fifth studio album. It reached #13 on the UK album charts and was their third and last album to make the US Billboard chart, where it peaked at #150...
- 1976 – Astounding Sounds, Amazing MusicAstounding Sounds, Amazing MusicAstounding Sounds, Amazing Music is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Hawkwind, released in 1976. It reached #33 on the UK album charts....
- 1980 – Weird Tapes Volume 3 – live 1975-77
- 1981 – Weird Tapes Volume 5 – live 1976-77
- 1982 – Choose Your MasquesChoose Your MasquesChoose Your Masques is the thirteenth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1982. It spent five weeks on the UK albums chart peaking at #29....
– guests on "Void City" only - 1982 – Weird Tapes Volume 6 – live 1970-73
- 1983 – Weird Tapes Volume 8 – live 1966-73
- 1983 – The Text of FestivalThe Text of FestivalThe Text of Festival is an archive album by Hawkwind consisting of BBC sessions and live performances between 1970 and 1971. It was originally released in 1983 after the band had exited their Active Records contract, and has continuously been repackaged and retitled ever since.The copyright of the...
– live 1970-1971 - 1983 – ZonesZones (album)Zones is an album by Hawkwind released in 1983 consisting of studio demos from 1981 and live performances between 1980 and 1982.The tracks on side 1 have been included on the 2009 3CD re-issue of Levitation in expanded form.-Side 1:...
– live 1980 and 1982 - 1984 – This Is Hawkwind, Do Not PanicThis Is Hawkwind, Do Not PanicThis is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic is a 1984 live album by the English space rock group Hawkwind. The album consisted of two discs: an LP which was recorded during the group's 1980 Levitation tour; and a 12" EP recorded on at their June 1984 appearance at the Stonehenge Free Festival.The group's...
– live 1980 and 1984 - 1984 – Bring Me the Head of Yuri GagarinBring Me the Head of Yuri GagarinBring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin is an live album by English rock group Hawkwind released in 1985 consisting of a performance at the Empire Pool, Wembley on 27 May 1973.This is a poor sound quality audience recording licensed by Nik Turner...
– live 1973 - 1984 – Space Ritual Volume 2 – live 1972
- 1987 – Out & IntakeOut & IntakeOut and Intake is a 1987 live/studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind. The album is compiled from various sources: studio out-takes from 1982; live recordings from 1982's Choose Your Masques tour; studio out-takes from 1987. Dave Brock stated of the release that "it was bits and...
– outtakes and live 1982-1986 - 1991 – BBC Radio 1 Live in ConcertBBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (Hawkwind album)BBC Radio One Live in Concert is a 1991 live album of a 1972 concert by Hawkwind."It was recorded straight to quarter inch tape - there were no overdubs and no possibility of remixing...
– live 1972 - 1995 – Undisclosed Files AddendumUndisclosed Files AddendumUndisclosed Files Addendum is a 1995 live album release by Hawkwind, composed of highlights from two concerts in 1984 and 1988.Tracks 7-11 were re-released in May 2010 as bonus tracks on The Xenon Codex.-Track listing:...
– live 1984 and 1988 - 1997 – The 1999 PartyThe 1999 PartyThe '1999' Party is a live album by Hawkwind recorded at the Chicago Auditorium Theatre on 21 March 1974 released retrospectively in November 1997 by EMI. It was issued for the first time as part of EMI's re-releasing re-mastered versions of the Hawkwind back catalogue...
– live 1974 - 1999 – Atomhenge 76Atomhenge 76Atomhenge 76 is a 2000 live album release of part of a 1976 concert by Hawkwind.Part of this set was also issued in North America on a single CD as Thrilling Hawkwind Adventures .-Track listing:CD1...
– live 1976 - 2000 – Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2 is a 1999 live album release of part of a 1982 concert by Hawkwind. Recorded over both nights of the winter 1982 tour, at London's Hammersmith Odeon...
– live 1982
Solo and collaborative projects
- 1978 – Nik Turner's Sphynx – XitintodayXitintodayXitintoday is a studio album released by Nik Turner's Sphynx in 1978.- Track listing :All tracks composed by Nik Turner#"The Awakening " - 4:20#"The Pyramid Spell" - 4:18#"The Hall of Double Truth" - 6:00#"Anubis" - 4:39...
(Charisma, CDS4011) - 1993 – Nik Turner – Sphynx (Cleopatra, CLEO21352)
- 1994 – Nik Turner – Prophets of Time (Cleopatra, CLEO69082)
- 1995 – Nik Turner – Space Ritual 1994 Live (Cleopatra, CLEO95062) and video-DVD (Cherry Red, CRDVD136) – live
- 1995 – Pinkwind – Festival Of The Sun (Twink Records, TWK CD2) – live
- 1995 – Anubian Lights – Eternal Sky (Hypnotic, CLEO96032)
- 1996 – Hawkfairies – Purple Haze (Twink Records, TWK CD5) – live
- 1996 – Anubian Lights – The Jackal and Nine EP (Hypnotic, CLEO 9666-2)
- 1996 – Nik Turner – Past or Future? (Cleopatra) - live
- 1997 – Nik Turner – Sonic Attack 2001 (Dossier, 8480) – compilation album of Cleopatra material
- 1998 – Anubian Lights – Let Not The Flame Die Out (Hypnotic, CLP 0346-2)
- 2000 – Nik Turner's Sphynx – Live At Deeply ValeLive at Deeply ValeLive At Deeply Vale is a live album recorded in 1978 by Nik Turner's Sphynx at the Deeply Vale Festival.- Track listing :#"The Awakening Pyramid Spell" - 9:07#"Hall of Double Truths" - 8:03#"Anubis" - 13:53#"Thoth" - 15:16#"God Rock" - 12:31...
(Ozit/Morpheus) – live 1978 - 2001 – Nik Turner's Fantastic All Stars – Kubanno Kickasso (Ozit/Morpheus, niktcd334)
Guest appearances
- 1974 – Robert CalvertRobert CalvertRobert Calvert was a writer, poet, and musician.-Biography:Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age and later attended school in London and Margate. He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street...
– Captain Lockheed and the StarfightersCaptain Lockheed and the StarfightersCaptain Lockheed and the Starfighters was a 1974 satirical concept album by Robert Calvert, the former frontman of British space-rock band Hawkwind. It consists of a mixture of songs and comic spoken interludes....
(United Artists, UAG 29507) - 1975 – Robert Calvert – Lucky Leif and the LongshipsLucky Leif and the LongshipsLucky Leif and the Longships is a 1975 record album by Robert Calvert, produced by Brian Eno.It is a concept album dealing with how American culture might have been different had the Vikings managed to colonise the continent...
(United Artists, UAG 29852) - 1975 – Michael MoorcockMichael MoorcockMichael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
& Deep Fix – New Worlds FairNew Worlds FairNew Worlds Fair is a 1975 concept album by UK rock group Michael Moorcock & Deep Fix.Moorcock was an established science fiction author who had contributed lyrics and occasionally performed with Hawkwind...
(United Artists, UAG 29732) - 1979 – Mother GongGilli SmythGilli Smyth is a musician who performed with the bands Gong, Mother Gong and Planet Gong as well as several solo albums and albums in collaborations other members of Gong...
– Fairy Tales (Charly, CHRL 5018) - 1981 – Robert Calvert – HypeHype (album)Hype is a 1981 album by singer Robert Calvert, the former frontman of British space-rock band Hawkwind.It is subtitled The Songs Of Tom Mahler as a tie-in to Calvert's only published novel Hype, the novel being a fictional account of the rise and death of a rock star.The musicians used for the...
(A-Side, IF 0311) - 1981 – Mother Gong – Robot Woman
- 1981 – Sham 69Sham 69Sham 69 is an English punk band that formed in Hersham in 1976.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived...
– The Game (Polydor, 5033) - 1982 – Catherine Andrews – Fruits (Cat Tracks, PURRLP2)
- 1982 – The Astronauts – Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs (Genius)
- 1982 – Big Amongst Sheep – Terminal Velocity (Rock Solid)
- 1983 – Underground Zero - The Official Bootleg
- 1994 – Psychic TVPsychic TVPsychic TV or PTV, is a video art and music group that primarily performs psychedelic, punk, electronic and experimental music...
– Pagan Day (Cleopatra) - 1994 – Helios CreedHelios CreedHelios Creed is an American guitarist, singer and bandleader. He first came to prominence in the mid 1970s with the San Francisco band Chrome. They are credited with being the godfathers of what later became known as Industrial Rock music...
– Busting Through the Van Allen Belt (Cleopatra, CLP 9465-2) - 1995 – The StranglersThe StranglersThe Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...
– The Stranglers & Friends Live in ConcertThe Stranglers & Friends Live in ConcertThe Stranglers and Friends: Live in Concert is a live album by The Stranglers, first released in 1995 .In the spring of 1980, Hugh Cornwell was in Pentonville Prison for drugs possession...
– live 1980 - 1995 – Sting and the Radioactors – Nuclear Waste (Voiceprint, BP181CD) – recorded in 1978
- 1996 – The Moor – Flux (Bishop Garden Records, BGR 03.1996.01 RM)
- 1997 – Nigel Mazlyn JonesNigel Mazlyn JonesNigel Mazlyn Jones is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter.Jones was born in Dudley, England, where he did part time work at Dudley Zoo from the age of 12...
, Guy Evans and Nik Turner – Live (Blueprint, BP250CD) – live - 1999 – Dark Sun – Ice Ritual (Burnt Hippie records, BHR-004)
- 1999 – 46000 Fibres – The 5th Anniversary Concerts: Set 3 (TRI 3/3)
- 1999 – Babylon WhoresBabylon WhoresBabylon Whores is a deathrock and metal band from Finland, founded in 1994 by Ike Vil and Ewo Meichem. As of 2006, the band has released two singles, three EPs and three albums. Throughout the years, the band's music has evolved from a raw, punk-ish style to a more massive sound with complex...
– King Fear (Necropolis Records ) - 2001 – Blue Horses – Ten Leagues Beyond World's Endhttp://www.folkandroots.co.uk/reviews1.html
- 2003 – The Jalapeños – Tear It Up (3D Discs 0002)
- 2004 – Spaceseed – Future Cities Of The Past Part 1 (Project 9 Records)
- 2004 – Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix – Rollercoaster Holiday (Voiceprint, VP351CD) – demos recorded in 1975
- 2005 – Muzak – Saturnia (Elektrohasch, ATHG-4127)
- 2009 - Space Mirrors - Majestic-12: A Hidden Presence (Sleaszy Rider, SR-0082)
Various artists
- 1983 - " Field Marshal Slug ; Punk Sax Live Genius.
- 1985 – Hawkwind, Friends and Relations Volume 2 – "The Man with the Golden ArmThe Man with the Golden ArmThe Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a heroin addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. It stars Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold...
" - 1995 – Saucerful of Pink: A Tribute to Pink Floyd – "Careful With That Axe Eugene"
Further reading
There are three biographies of Hawkwind which contain extensive contributions from and sections about Nik Turner.- Kris Tait This is Hawkwind: Do not Panic (1984, published by the band but now out of print)
- Ian Abrahams Sonic Assassins (Published by SAF publishing; ISBN 0-946719-69-1)
- Carol Clerk's Saga of Hawkwind (Publisher: Music Sales Limited ISBN 1-84449-101-3)