“He did one track… then went off with some famous singer to do another album”: Hawkwind’s collaboration with William Orbit didn’t happen on this album - but they hope it will on the next

Hawkwind.

The gestation of Hawkwind’s latest album Stories From Time And Space goes back almost a year, when founder and leader Dave Brock told Prog that work was already underway – just as 2023’s The Future Never Waits was about to be released.

“We haven’t actually done anything about space for ages,” guitarist Magnus Martin says of the album’s origins. “So we thought, ‘Let’s actually do some space rock.’ There’s also this amazing book that [music impresario] Rob Godwin has written about space rock and Hawkwind as well, so that’s what got us thinking about actually just doing a space rock album, you know?”