Prog - The Saga Of The Space Ritual

Prog asked me to write a 6,000 word cover feature on Hawkwind's legendary Space Ritual tour. I interviewed Doug Smith (again) and Del Dettmar (for the first time - unused for this piece, but published in Sideways Through Time v2 ), and got Prog to include some photos from the Brixton Sundown show that hadn't been published before. It went on sale December 2022.

Addendum

The following year after this piece was published, Esoteric released an amazing 50th anniversary boxset of Space Ritual, which included the 'lost' Sunderland Locarno recording mentioned in the piece above. Here's my review for Prog, published September 2023...