Lords of Chaos
“People can compare us to Hawkwind all they like. Both of our bands operate in the same time stream, but they’re in a cross-connected multiverse. There’s a wormhole that connects us both.”
The Hawklords were born in 1978 when three Hawkwind members – guitarist Dave Brock, frontman Robert Calvert and drummer Simon King – broke away for the album 25 Years On. When Hawkwind rebooted, to all intents and purposes the Hawklords appeared dead. This wasn’t so, although it took 30 years to prove the theory.
In 2008, saxophonist Nik Turner rallied a group of Hawkwind alumni for a tribute gig to Calvert, who
