''Hawkwind in Your Area'' is the twenty-second

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. The live side was recorded during the group's 1997 tour to promote the ''

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'' album. The studio tracks were recorded during 1998. The group had ceased business dealings with former manager Douglas Smith who had been running the record label

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, and as a consequence found themselves without an outlet in Europe for their recordings. They had, however, a long-standing deal with

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in North America for licensing the EBS material, so this album received a North American release in January 1999, but no European equivalent. Later, in 2000, as Brock started to make archive material available for release in the UK through

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, it received a belated UK release.

Track listing

#"Brainstorm" (

Nik Turner Nicholas Robert Turner (26 August 1940 – 10 November 2022) was an English musician, best known as a member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner played saxophone and flute, as well as being a vocalist and composer. While with Hawkwind, T ...

) / "Hawkwind In Your Area" (

Dave Brock David Anthony Brock (born 20 August 1941) is an English musician. He plays electric guitar, keyboards, bass and oscillators. He is a founder, sole constant member and musical focus of the space rock group Hawkwind.Allmusic– Dave Brock biogr ...

Captain Rizz Captain Rizzis a musician and community organiser in London, where he volunteered at the T. Chances community centre in Tottenham. As a vocalist for Hawkwind from 1997 to 2000, he was described as a "Space Reggae toaster". He ran for Parliament ...

) / "Alchemy" (Richards, Chadwick) – 11:08 #"Love in Space" (Brock) – 2:46 #"Rat Race" (Brock, Rizz) – 5:51 #"Aerospace Age Inferno" (

Robert Calvert Robert Newton Calvert (9 March 1945 – 14 August 1988) was a South African-British writer, poet, and musician. He is principally known for his role as lyricist, performance poet and lead vocalist of the space rock band Hawkwind. Early life ...

) – 5:32 #"First Landing on Medusa" (Calvert, Brock) – 1:41 #"I Am the Reptoid" (Tree) – 3:19 #"The Nazca" (Brock) – 0:44 #"Hippy" (Tree, Richards) – 5:45 #"Prairie" (Tree, Richards) – 2:39 #"Your Fantasy" (Tree, Brock, Chadwick, Richards) – 5:04 #"Luxotica" (Tree, Chadwick, Richards) – 3:09 #"Diana Park" (Brock) – 4:21

Personnel

;Hawkwind *

–

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*Jerry Richards – electric guitar *

Ron Tree Ronald 'Ron' Tree (born 8 April 1963 in Leeds, England) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as frontman and bassist for the English space rock band Hawkwind from 1995 to 2002. He also played both these roles in the reunited Steve To ...

– vocals,

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*Richard Chadwick –

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with: *Captain Rizz –

*Crum (Julian Crimmins) – keyboards

Credits

*Tracks 1-6 recorded live at Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium – 20 November 1997

Release history

*1999:

, GCD740-2, USA *2000: Voiceprint, HAWKVP17CD, UK

References

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