Simon House

• Name — Simon House • Born — 29 August 1948 • Died — 25 May 2025 • Genre — * Progressive rock • space rock • Art rock • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — * Violin • keyboards • Years Active — 1969-2025 • Past Member Of — * Hawkwind • High Tide • Third Ear Band

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." 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 also played on solo projects by former Hawkwind members Robert Calvert and Nik Turner. From the 1970s onward, House cut an album (Interesting Times) with Tony Hill under the High Tide banner; released several solo albums under his own name; and twice rejoined Hawkwind – between 1989 and 1991, and between 2001 and 2003. House died on 25 May 2025, at the age of 76.

• Sea Shanties (1969) • High Tide (1970) • Interesting Times (1986) • Precious Cargo (1989) • The Flood (1990)

• Sinister Morning (1970)

• Music from Macbeth (1972) • The Magus (recorded 1972, released 2004)

• 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 (1990) • Palace Springs (1991) • 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)

• New Worlds Fair (1975)

• Lucky Leif and the Longships (1975) • Hype: Songs of Tom Mahler (1981) • Revenge

• Stage (1978) • Lodger (1979) • Sound + Vision (2001) • Welcome to the Blackout (recorded in 1978) (2018)

• Tin Drum (1981) • Gentlemen Take Polaroids/Tin Drum/Oil on Canvas (1994) • Exorcising Ghosts (2004)

• Everything and Nothing (2000)

• She Blinded Me With Science (1982) • The Golden Age of Wireless [re-released version] (1982) • The Best of Thomas Dolby: Retrospectacle (1994)

• "Crises" (1983) [2013 Deluxe Edition only] • The Complete Mike Oldfield (1985)

• One Hundred Miles Below (1989) • Gulp (1991)

• Prophets of Time (1994) • Transglobal Friends and Relations (2000) • Space Gypsy (2013) • Life In Space (2017)

• Yassasim (1995) • Spiral Galaxy Revisited (2005)

• House of Dreams (2002)

• A Trip to G9 (1994) • Crystal Jungles of Eos (1995) • Solar Wind (1996) • Ambient Voids: A Hypnotic Compilation (1995)

• The Eternal Sky (1995) • Jackal & Nine (1996)

• Ambient Time Travellers (1995)

• Head Cleaner (2000)

• As Above So Below (2001)

• Element (2006)

• Enchanted Garden (2004) • Spindle (2006) • The Whorl (2006)

• Cluster of Waves (2007) • Away With the Fairies (2007)

• Earthborn (2008) • Bloodlines (2009)

• A Spoonful of Time (2008)

• Eclectic Devils (2009)