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Sat 13 Dec 2003

Pendine, Pembs. - Spring Well Pub - 01994 453 274

Los Gordoneros = Nik, Meurig, Mike and Gordon

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Fri 12 Dec 2003

Malvern - Con Club

Nik Turner's Thunderbolt - Nik potatoes this three piece suite featuring Allstars regulars Meurig on wrong trousers and Gary on bullyproof waistcoat.

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Fri 28 Nov 2003

Torrington, N. Devon - Arts Centre

Space Ritual

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Fri 21 Nov 2003

USA - Portland, Oregon - KBOO 90.7 FM

Programme: Psychedilicacies: Hawkwind - Space Ritual - cheers to DJ Trout of the Chaos Collective for airing three hours of classic '70s stuff...

One of the oldest community radio stations in the US - volunteer powered, listener sponsored...

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Fri 21 Nov 2003

Denaby, S. Yorks - The Milestone (formerly The Pig) - 01709 862 153

Fantastic Allstars

A630 to Conisborough, then A633 west toward Mexborough, then?

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Fri 14 Nov 2003

Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks - Trades Club - [map] - 01422 845 265

Space Ritual + Tractor

Holme Street, HX7 8EE - "...a not-for-profit social club..."

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Sat 8 Nov 2003

Manchester - Academy 3 - [map] - 0161 832 1111

Space Ritual + DebEspace

Manchester University, Oxford Road M13 9PQ - Ticketline.co.uk

"brilliant gig... thanks to the band for playing so many good tracks so well (and a real privilege to shake everyone's hand at the end), thanks to Nik for signing my picture taken of him 20 years ago in the same venue (as ICU, the place has changed a bit!) ...special thanks to Debbie for her lovely smile (yes, I'm sure she was smiling at ME :-). Oh, and taking all her clothes off, that was a good bit too...

Really superb... probably the gig I've enjoyed most this year (about 20, everything from Cerys Matthews... to Deep Purple)" - peter

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Thu 6 Nov 2003

Sheffield - Boardwalk - [map]

Space Ritual

Snig Hill S3 8NA - tickets & enquiries: 0114 279 9090

"great gig..." - anon
"...stood riveted to the delivery of 'Sonic Attack'. Ace!" - rob of sheffield

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Sat 1 Nov 2003

Exeter - Phoenix Arts Centre - [map] - 01392 667 080

Space Ritual

Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS

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Fri 31 Oct 2003

Hallowe'en - Worcester - Marr's Bar - [map] - 01905 613 336

Space Ritual

Children of the Sun - [8:33] - (YouTube), Cosmic Chant - [9:59]- (YouTube) 12 Pierpoint Street WR1 1TA

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Thu 30 Oct 2003

Wolverhampton - The Robin 2 - [map] - 01384 637 747

Space Ritual

Mt. Pleasant, Bilston, W. Mids. WV14 7LJ

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Thu 23 Oct 2003

Southampton - The Brook - [map] - 023 8055 5366

Space Ritual + Judge Trev

446 Portswood Road, Portswood, Hampshire SO17 3SD

Trev takes the stage at 8:45 playing a selection of songs from his latest "retro" album, God and Man, written by him in the 60's and early 70's. Fabulous Angie will accompany in dance. Plus an appearance by Captain Stupidt (Captain Sensible's ex comedy partner)

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Sat 4 Oct 2003

USA - Baltimore, MD - The Mojo

Spaceseed featuring Nik
+ Cotton (Acid Mothers Temple) & Billawtm

Children of the Sun, Orgone Accumulator, Ejection, Brainstorm, Masters of the Universe, Shouldn't Do That, Silver Machine; Theme from The Pink Panther, In the Mood, Tequila

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Fri 3 Oct 2003

USA - Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar

Spaceseed featuring Nik + Scattered Planets, EDO, Omegalord

"...great gig... incredible. Nik... was riding a wave ...light show was sensational (Craig Smith has also done lighting for Helios Creed and Chrome) - Spaceseed: John Stanton, bass (awesome); John Pack, guitar (sparks flying from his finger tips); Gal Axxxy, keyboards; Serson, theremin & subliminal messaging (everyone in attendence woke up at exactly 4:30 this morning craving Pop Tarts)" - Bob L (paraphrased)

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Thu 2 Oct 2003

USA - Washington, DC - Warehouse Next Door

Spaceseed featuring Nik
+ Cotton (Acid Mothers Temple) & Billawtm

1017 7th Street NW, adjacent to and associated with the Warehouse Theater - 202 783 3933

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Tue 30 Sep 2003

USA - Atlanta, GA - WREK 91.1FM

Spaceseed featuring Nik - live radio simulcast

Georgia Tech Student Radio, 10pm
"He's a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech and a heck on an engineer..."

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Tue 30 Sep 2003

USA - Atlanta, GA - WRAS 88.5 FM

Nik - live radio interview

"Album 88" from Georgia State (University)

Reliable sources report that, on the show hosted by James Lewis, Nik played a bit of flute along with a unreleased Nik and Spaceseed tune, "Notes from the Alchemist"

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30 Sep 1947 - Marc Bolan - 16 Sep 1977

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Sat 27 Sep 2003

USA - Athens, GA - Tasty World

Spaceseed featuring Nik

Clubville Blogspot (not really a gig review)

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Fri 26 Sep 2003

USA - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade

Spaceseed featuring Nik

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Thu 25 Sep 2003

USA - Cullman, AL - Cullman Civic Center

Spaceseed featuring Nik + Church of Hed

SpaceRock Convention with alien dancers, heavy space, ambient tech... Tickets $7, Show starts 5 or 6pm, runs 'til 11:30pm - bring refreshments (not alcohol). Info: Carlo, tel. 256 734 7496, strangemage57@hotmail.com

USA SpaceRock Convention 2003 photos

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Sat 13 Sep 2003

Pendine, Pembs. - Spring Well Pub - 01994 453 274

The Nik Turner Experience - An 'orse d'oeuvre of a diff'rent colour?

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Fri 29 Aug 2003

Scotland - The Corran Halls - [map] - 01631 567 333

Space Ritual

Corran Esplanade, Oban, Argyll PA34 5AB

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Fri 22-Sun 24 Aug 2003

Canterbury Fayre - Mount Ephraim Gardens - Hernhill, nr. Faversham - [area map]

Space Ritual

Fri 22nd, Croissant Neuf: Space Ritual, Tractor, Guitar George Borowski, The Theory - acts courtesy of Ozit-Morpheus records

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Fri 8-Sun 10 Aug 2003

Jazz Aberhonddu - 01874 611 622

Fantastic Allstars

Sun 10th 4:30 pm, Bishops Gardens Stage

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Sat 9 Aug 2003

Pendine Carnival - Pendine Beach - Pembs.

Fantastic Allstars

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Wed 30 Jul-Sun 3 Aug 2003

Big Green Gathering - North Somerset

Fantastic Allstars - 'Round Midnight, Thu 31st Jul - 10:00pm-midnight - Croissant Neuf

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Fri 1 Aug 2003

Ilford, Essex - The Cauliflower - [map] - 020 8478 0627

Space Ritual

553 High Road IG1 1TZ
Underground: Newbury Park, Overground: Seven Kings

all sincere apologies - this one evidently unravelled in the late run-up, owing to communications breakdown between the band's management and the venue (I still show it as "To Be Confirmed")... with much finger-pointing and wagging, exeunt, stages left, right and centre?!? - as usual, it's the fans who suffer - again, our humblest bowings and scrapings...

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Sat 26 Jul 2003

Coventry - General Wolfe - [map]

Space Ritual + Tractor

551 Foleshill Road CV6 5JW - Tickets £10 plus postage (plus booking fee if on card) from the venue, 11 am to 11 pm, 7 days a week; by telephone with credit card at 01565 734 066 and 07970 219 701 or by post via: Recordrange, P.O.Box 116, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 5UG

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Fri 25 Jul 2003

London - Rayners Hotel - [map] - 020 8866 1666

Space Ritual + Tractor

Village Way East, Rayners Lane, nr. Harrow HA2 7LX - Tickets £10 plus booking fee and postage by phone with credit card from 01565 734 066, 07970 219 701, or £12 on the door.
Underground: North Harrow, West Harrow, Rayners Lane.
Overground: Harrow on the Hill

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Sat 19 Jul 2003

Cardiff - Toucan Club - [map] - 02920 372 212

Fantastic All Stars

95-97 St. Mary's St., CF10 1DX - 10 pm start
"The only privately owned club in town."

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Sat 12 Jul 2003

Pendine, Pembs. - Spring Well Pub - 01994 453 274

Fantastic All Stars

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Thu 26-Sun 29 Jun 2003

Glastonbury Festival

Thu 26th after midnight, Small World; Fri 27th ??pm, Lost Glade Stage; Lost Vagueness sometime... and in the end, Avalon Cafe with Nigel Mazlyn Jones on the Sunday afternoon

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Tue 17 Jun 2003

Leicester - HMF - 01858 464 666

Live Radio Interview with Nik

...rabbiting to commence 2:15 pm

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Sat 14 Jun 2003

Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen - Battle of the Bands - in the Park

with Nik among the judges ...early afternoon start (1 or 2 pm?)

[area map]

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Fri 13 Jun 2003

Abercych, nr. Newcastle Emlyn - Fox & Hounds - 01239 698 308

Fantastic Allstars - 8:30 pm

T junction opposite the old stone arch bridge - 01994 453 274

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Sat 24 May 2003

Cardiff - Toucan Club - [map] - 02920 372 212

Fantastic All Stars - (rescheduled from Sat 10 May)

95-97 St. Mary's St., CF10 1DX
"The only privately owned club in town."

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Sat 17 May 2003

Stourbridge, W. Mids - Rock Cafe 2000 - [map] - 01384 390 918

Space Ritual featuring Jerry Richards + Tractor

Mill Race Lane, DY8 1JN

'Space/Prog-Rock Convention' dedicated to Robert Calvert. All afternoon and evening. Round up the usual suspects. Special guest poetry readings from Robert's son Nick.

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Fri 16 May 2003

Narberth, Pembs. - Queen's Hall

Zion Train featuring Nik Turner & Rick Welsh

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Wed 7 May 2003

Birkenhead - The Iron Door - [map]

Space Ritual + Tractor

Argyle Street, Merseyside CH41 6AF

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Fri 2 May 2003 - (formerly Sat 3 May, High Wycombe)

Sutton, Surrey - Boom Boom Club - [map]

Space Ritual + Richard Kid Strange (Doctors of Madness)

Change of Date and Venue - Sutton United Football Club, Borough Sports Ground, Gander Green Lane, Sutton, Surrey SM1

Tickets previously purchased are valid for this show (or refundable) - sincere apologies for any inconvenience. Advance tickets £10 plus 30p p&p from 01565 734 066 or 07966 218 959 or Ozit-Morpheus, POB 116, Northwich, Chesire CW9 5UGby credit, debit or switch; remainders will be £12 on the door.

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Easter Sun 20 Apr 2003

Abergavenny - The Great George Inn - [map]

Silverwing featuring Nik Turner

Cross Street, NB7

Benefit for Crossroads Charity, also featuring HRH Ivor Beynon (Lord of Steel), Slugman. £5 advance, £6 door. 3pm start

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Sat 12 Apr 2003

London - Rayners Hotel - [map] - 020 8866 1666

Space Ritual

Village Way East, Rayners Lane, nr. Harrow HA2 7LX
Tube: North Harrow, West Harrow, Rayners Lane.
Train: Harrow on the Hill

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Sat 29 Mar 2003

Cardiff - Toucan Club - [map] - 02920 372 212

Fantastic All Stars

95-97 St. Mary's St., CF10 1DX - "The only privately owned club in town."

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Mon 24 Mar 2003

Cardiff - Mount Stuart - [map] - online tickets - 02920 301 000

Space Ritual

West Bute Street, Cardiff Bay CF10 5BB

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Sat 22 Mar 2003

Glastonbury - Assembly Rooms - [map] - 01458 834 677

Space Ritual + Tractor + Indivisible

High Street, BA6 9DU

Doors 8pm, late bar 'til 1am. Advance tickets £10 (£8 unwaged) from Gothic Image Bookshop, High Street, Glastonbury, or by phone with credit card from Ozit-Morpheus Records, tel 01565 734 066, mobile 07970 219 701

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Thu 20 Mar 2003

Shrewsbury - Buttermarket - [map] - 01743 231 142

Space Ritual + Tractor

Howard Street, SY1 2LF

Dust off your best space drag for this rare DVD shoot!

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Sat 22 Feb 2003

Exeter - Phoenix Arts Centre - [map] - 01392 667 080

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar + The Theory

Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, EX4 3LS

Niks words, "this is the first time I've been back in Exeter since the court case", said clearly with a wry grin on his face, as it would seem that Space Ritual were obviously having a good gig.

And it was! For over an hour and a half the audience was treated to some great renditions of such classics as Ghost Dance, Born to Go, Brainstorm, D Rider, Master of the Universe, Orgone Acumulator, Shouldn't do That, Children of the Sun and Silvermachine. Linked by sythi swirls and poetry pieces (the Black Corridor being one of them). Also the fab Inner City Unit song, Watching the Grass Grow. A great treat was the new songs, one by Micheal Moorcock called Sonic Savages and another written about Timothy Leary when Nik visited him in a mental institution. Both these new works were instantly memorable and are promised on the new forthcoming studio album.

At one point there were nine musicians on stage and you really had the feeling that this could have been the Roundhouse in 1971 complete with oil wheels and bubble machine. Coming from the right place and if you can get to see them, then do!

A great band on form and having fun. What it's about really. The Line up:- Nik Turner-sax, flute, vocals; Terry & Sam Ollis (Terry's son), drums; Mick Slattery, guitar; Dave Anderson, bass; John the Ghost, keyboards; Del Dettmar, synthi axe; Alice, percussion and vocals; Thomas Hewitt, guest guitar.

Brian Zero (Riven, Global, Invisible Opera Company)

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Fri 21 Feb 2003

Derby - Flower Pot - [map] - 01332 204 955

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar

25 King Street, DE1 3DZ

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Thu 20 Feb 2003

Tamworth, Staffs - Assembly Rooms - [map] - 01827 709 619

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar + Tractor

Corporation Street, B79 7DN

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Sun 02 Feb 2003

Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs. - Witchwood - [map] - 0161 344 0321

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar

152 Old Street, OL6 7SF

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Fri 31 Jan 2003

Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks - Trades Club - [map] - 01422 845 265

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar + Tractor + Pie

Holme Street, HX7 8EE - "...a not-for-profit social club..."
£7.50 tickets, from the club or Ozit Records, 01565 734 066; P.O. Box 116, Northwich, Chesire CW9 5VG

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Thu 30 Jan 2003

Wolverhampton - Robin 2 - [map]

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar + Tractor

Mt. Pleasant, Bilston WV14 7LJ - Tractor 8:30pm, Space Ritual 9:30pm-11.30pm - 12:30am closing. Food available at venue. Tickets: 01384 637 747 and from the venue.

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Wed 29 Jan 2003

Stoke on Trent - The Sugarmill - [map] - 01782 214 991

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar

Brunswick Street, Hanley, Staffordshire ST1 1DR

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Sun 26 Jan 2003

Brighton - Concorde 2 - map & directions - 01273 772 770

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar + The Theory

Madeira Drive, BN2 1EN - along the beach...

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Fri 24 Jan 2003

Northampton - Roadmender - [map] - 01604 604 222

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar + The Theory

£9 tickets, 7:30 doors. 1 Ladys Lane, NN1 3AH

"Fantastic set... superb, best gig I've seen for ages... hope the tour continues in the same fashion..." - Peter

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Thu 23 Jan 2003

Southampton - The Brook [map] - 023 8055 5366

Space Ritual featuring Del Dettmar + The Theory

446 Portswood Road, Portswood, Hampshire SO17 3SD

• "...thanks to you and your crew for a fantastic fun evening... so freekin' happy that I went ...a real treat to see people enjoying themselves so much, the picture of you grinning like mad at the end of the gig will stay forever. - wobblenut
• "...really enjoyed it, thanks. You could probably tell everyone had a good time, it was a great atmosphere. My friend described it as a 'life affirming experience', so, uh, there you go. It was great that Del could be there, and I hope 'Miss Debbie' becomes a permanent feature!" - Andy R.
• "...priviledged to meet all the band back stage... gig has to be the best I have ever seen or heard, you and the band have captured the essence of what Hawkwind were, are and should be. What a pleasure it was to see 11/12 muscians/singers/people on stage enjoying every minute of what they doing as much as we the audience were. Your choice of songs was beyond belief, even now I am still on a high, so you must return to Southampton before I come down off the high, my 2 oldest kids want to come and see you all and enjoy the experience." - The Waylander
• "...fabulous, groovy, wild, psychedelic... thoroughly enjoyable. ...the spirit and the atmosphere on the night was what it should be. ...do please come back to The Brook with Space Ritual... Many colours and smiles" - Tony Rainbow
• "...best gig I have been to in years - such a pleasure to find each felt moment to be so fine that you don't want to let go of it; and a joy to gladly let go of each moment, as it happened, so as not to miss the next..." - Dean Hill

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Fri 17 Jan 2003

Leicester - The Charlotte - [map & directions] - 0116 255 3956

Space Ritual + Guitar George Borowski

8 Oxford Street, LE1 5XZ - book online or by phone (credit/debit card) 0115 912 9000

First manifestation of John Greves on synthesisers.