“Drugs at our age? You don’t have to take them forever. Once you’ve opened the doors of perception you can see what’s going on; you’ve got the ideas”: Dave Brock on Hawkwind’s late-period purple patch

Dave Brock.

On 36th studio album Stories From Time And Space, released in 2024, Hawkwind showed they’d lost none of their sense of global injustice. Bandleader Dave Brock told Prog about the drive behind their new music, why he was continuing to fight for an alternative society, and responded to recent concerns about his health.

Ask a musician what the highlight of their recent tour might have been, and the answers will range from positive crowd reaction to new material, or a hospitality rider that included a decent feed as much as libation, to perhaps wifi that worked or just good old camaraderie on the tour bus.