Dave and Nik were by that time fairly frequent visitors and by this time Bob was with them but was in one of his hyper states so they had no one to front them. A day or two before they were due to go on at what was now called Portobello Green, which was five minutes from my place. Hawkwind, Quiver, Brinsley Schwartz, Pink Fairies – all the local bands. My wife Jill and best friend Jim Cawthorn painted murals and we installed tiered bench seating and created a stage for plays, rock performances etc. Jon Trux was heading a project To make the newly created motorway bays a facility for local people. I was impressed by their lack of pretension. It felt like, as I said at the time, like being aboard a generational starship whose crew had gone totally raving barmy. DikMik wandering about turning knobs and plugging in jacks, Del a kind of crazed dwarf. He was enthusiastic about this new band and we all went to see them at a gig in Fulham I think it was. What were your first thoughts when hearing their debut album?īob Calvert came to see me with Jon Trux. You first became aware of Hawkwind in 1970, through the underground magazine ‘Frendz’. Moorcock took his time to talk about his collaboration and assorted things. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Moorcock in their list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”. Many of his works are now considered classic among sci-fi literature. He worked as an editor for well known British science fiction magazine ‘New Worlds’ from mid ’60s to 1971 and from 1976 to late ’90s. He was also a part of underground rock band like psychedelic warriors – Hawkwind. Michael Moorcock interview about Hawkwind, Robert Calvert … Michael Moorcock is well respected author, probably most known for his science fiction and fantasy sequences.

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