Hawkwind has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 99 episodes and was first played on 24 July 2013.

Hawkwind is an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups. The band was formed by ex-busker and blues man Dave Brock in Ladbroke Grove, London, who intended to marry simple three-chord rock with experimental electronic music. He cites his influences for the band at the time as The Moody Blues, Steve Miller Band and the krautrock scene of Kraftwerk, Neu! and particularly Can.

The band was formed in 1969 by visionary Dave Brock and although it has been subject to numerous…