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Space Ritual will bring the spirit of Hawkwind to the county tomorrow night.
The band formed at the turn of the century through a combination of popular demand and the desire and need to revive the lost magic and true spirit of the 1970s space rock band.
Space Ritual play a mixture of modern space rock, jazzy and spiritual music and are led by singer and saxophone player Nick Turner.
Turner wrote seminal anthems such as Master of the Universe, Brainstorm, and D-rider.
He has also recorded with the likes of Sham 69, The Damned and Guillemots.
He's joined by founder member of Hawkwind, lead guitarist and singer Mick Slattery.
Slattery started out playing the trumpet when he was about 14 and soon took up playing the five-string banjo.
After seeing Dave Brock and Eric Clapton jamming together at Eel Pie Island, he switched to guitar.
He joined a band called The Compromise who released two singles and had a residency at the Marquee Club in London.
In the late 1960s he joined Brock's Famous Cure and they spent the summer of 1967 in Holland, where the band met Nik Turner.
Over the next couple of years they had several name and line-up changes before becoming Hawkwind Zoo.
Slattery joined up with Space Ritual about five years ago.
Drummer Terry Ollis, also a co-founder of Hawkwind, formed Space Ritual with Turner and Thomas Crimble.
Guitarist, keyboard player and singer Crimble played in Hawkwind for about eight months, playing live every night and helping create tracks on the In Search of Space album.
He left in 1970, having been asked to help organise the 1971 Glastonbury Festival, and continued to work with Michael Eavis and the team every Glastonbury Festival until 1999.
Bassist Jerry Richards was invited by Dave Brock to join Hawkwind as lead guitarist in 1995 and was subsequently invited by Turner to play bass with Space Ritual following the departure of fellow ex-Hawk bassist Dave Anderson in 2006.
They will be joined by Chris Purdon on synths, dancer Miss Angel and Sam Ollis on decks and drums.
The band have played across the country and at festivals including Glastonbury, Canterbury and Guilford.
Space Ritual play at the Northampton Roadmender tomorrow.
They will be joined by The Bromptons.
Doors open at 7pm and tickets, which include free entry to the Blast Chamber club night, cost 12.
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