Simon House
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Simon House (born 29 August 1948 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is a British composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind.
Career
Before his time with Hawkwind, House played in High Tide and the Third Ear Band, who contributed the soundtrack to Roman Polanski's Macbeth. Guitarist Tony Hill recounted how House became a member of High Tide: "[Pete Pavli and I were] hanging out with" and crashing where we could at Mike's or Wayne's. Simon ended up crashing there as well. Simon was playing bass then. He said: 'I used to play violin, you know?' So I said 'Get it!' That was basically it."[1]
He joined Hawkwind in 1974. He left the group for David Bowie's band in 1978.
Along with other Hawkwind members he was a session musician for science fiction author Michael Moorcock's New Worlds Fair in 1975 and has also played on solo projects by former Hawkwind members Robert Calvert and Nik Turner.
Since the 1970s, as well as cutting an album (Interesting Times) with Tony Hill under the High Tide banner and releasing several solo albums under his own name, House has twice rejoined Hawkwind; between 1989 and 1991, and between 2001 and 2003.
Discography
High Tide
- Sea Shanties (1969)
- High Tide (1970)
- Interesting Times (1986)
- Precious Cargo (1989)
- The Flood (1990)
Denny Gerrard
- Sinister Morning (1970)
Third Ear Band
- Music from Macbeth (1972)
- The Magus (recorded 1972, released 2004)
Hawkwind
- Hall of the Mountain Grill (1974)
- Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975)
- Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (1976)
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977)
- PXR5 (1979)
- Lord of Light (1987)
- Space Bandits (1989)
- Palace Springs (1990)
- Live in Nottingham 1990 (2004)
- Anthology, 1967-1982 (1998)
- Stasis: The U.A. Years, 1971-1975 (2003)
- Yule Ritual (2002)
- Canterbury Fayre 2001 (2002)
- The Weird Tapes No. 5: Live '76 & '77 (2001)
Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix
- New Worlds Fair (1975)
Robert Calvert
- Lucky Leif and the Longships (1975)
- Hype: Songs of Tom Mahler (1981)
- Revenge
David Bowie
- Stage (1978)
- Lodger (1979)
- Sound + Vision (2001)
- Welcome to the Blackout (recorded in 1978) (2018)
Japan
- Tin Drum (1981)
- Gentlemen Take Polaroids/Tin Drum/Oil on Canvas (1994)
- Exorcising Ghosts (2004)
David Sylvian
- Everything and Nothing (2000)
Thomas Dolby
- She Blinded Me With Science (1982)
- The Golden Age of Wireless [Re-released version](1982)
- The Best of Thomas Dolby: Retrospectacle (1994)
Mike Oldfield
- "Crises" (1983) [2013 Deluxe Edition only]
- The Complete Mike Oldfield (1985)
Magic Muscle
- One Hundred Miles Below (1989)
- Gulp (1991)
Nik Turner
- Prophets of Time (1994)
- Transglobal Friends and Relations (2000)
- Space Gypsy (2013)
- Life In Space (2017)
Simon House
- Yassasim (1995)
- Spiral Galaxy Revisited (2005)
Simon House with Rod Goodway
- House of Dreams (2002)
Spiral Realms
- A Trip to G9 (1994)
- Crystal Jungles of Eos (1995)
- Solar Wind (1996)
- Ambient Voids: A Hypnotic Compilation (1995)
Anubian Lights
- The Eternal Sky (1995)
- Jackal & Nine (1996)
Ambient Time Travellers
- Ambient Time Travellers (1995)
Adrian Shaw
- Head Cleaner (2000)
Bedouin
- As Above So Below (2001)
Earth Lab
- Element (2006)
Judy Dyble
- Enchanted Garden (2004)
- Spindle (2006)
- The Whorl (2006)
Astralasia
- Cluster of Waves (2007)
- Away With the Fairies (2007)
Spirits Burning
- Earthborn (2008)
- Bloodlines (2009)
Nektar
- A Spoonful of Time (2008)
Alan Davey
- Eclectic Devils (2009)
References
- ^ Shaw, Adrian. (2000) "Tony Hill interview". Perfect Sound Forever magazine.
External links
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- Myspace page for Simon House Official web site
- Dark Chemistry Official web site
- Myspace page for Dark Chemistry Official web site
- Myspace page for Psychestra Official web site
- Astralasia Official web site
- Simon House discography at Discogs
- Simon House at IMDb
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- Dave Brock
- Richard Chadwick
- Magnus Martin
- Thighpaulsandra
- Doug MacKinnon
- Nik Turner
- Dik Mik
- Huw Lloyd-Langton
- Thomas Crimble
- Del Dettmar
- Simon King
- Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
- Robert Calvert
- Simon House
- Alan Powell
- Paul Rudolph
- Adrian Shaw
- Harvey Bainbridge
- Steve Swindells
- Keith Hale
- Ginger Baker
- Andy Anderson
- Robert Heaton
- Alan Davey
- Clive Deamer
- Bridget Wishart
- Ron Tree
- Mr Dibs
- Tim Blake
- Niall Hone
- Hawkwind
- In Search of Space
- Doremi Fasol Latido
- Hall of the Mountain Grill
- Warrior on the Edge of Time
- Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
- 25 Years On (as Hawklords)
- PXR5
- Levitation
- Sonic Attack
- Church of Hawkwind
- Choose Your Masques
- The Chronicle of the Black Sword
- The Xenon Codex
- Space Bandits
- Electric Tepee
- It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous
- White Zone (as Psychedelic Warriors)
- Alien 4
- Distant Horizons
- In Your Area
- Spacebrock
- Take Me to Your Leader
- Take Me to Your Future
- Blood of the Earth
- Onward
- The Machine Stops
- Into the Woods
- Road to Utopia
- All Aboard the Skylark
- Carnivorous (as Hawkwind Light Orchestra)
- Somnia
- The Future Never Waits
- Stories from Time and Space
- The Weird Tapes
- Hawkwind, Friends and Relations
- The Text of Festival
- Zones
- Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin
- Space Ritual Volume 2
- Hawkwind Anthology
- Out & Intake
- BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
- The Friday Rock Show Sessions
- Hawklords Live
- California Brainstorm
- Undisclosed Files Addendum
- The 1999 Party
- Glastonbury 90
- Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2
- Complete '79: Collector Series Volume 1
- Atomhenge 76
- Live 1990
- Roadhawks
- Masters of the Universe
- Repeat Performance
- Angels of Death
- Spirit of the Age
- Stasis (The UA Years 1971–1975)
- Tales from Atom Henge
- Epocheclipse
- Future Reconstructions – Ritual of the Solstice
- Masters of Rock
- Spirit of the Age Anthology
- The Dream Goes On
- Hawkwind Zoo EP
- Sonic Assassins EP
- The Earth Ritual Preview
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
- "Hurry On Sundown"
- "Silver Machine"
- "Urban Guerrilla"
- "Kings of Speed"
- "Kerb Crawler"
- "Back on the Streets"
- "Quark, Strangeness and Charm"
- "Psi Power"
- "25 Years"
- "Shot Down in the Night"
- "Who's Gonna Win the War?"
- "Spirit of the Age"
- Sonic Assassins
- Hawklords
- Space Ritual
- Hawklords (2008)
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