steve hillage Archive
26 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: What kind of synthesizer gear did you use on Flower of Life? Steve Hillage: Well, there’s quite a bit of our antique EMS. And […]
25 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: From my perspective, your guitar work seems to be more integrated into what System 7 does on Flower of Life than it perhaps was […]
24 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 1 of 3)
A shorter edit of this feature was first published on The Tonearm. Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy embarked on their fascinating musical journey several decades ago. They began working together […]
04 Jan 2023
Album Review: Steve Hillage – The Glastonbury Experience: Live 1979
Steve Hillage is a beloved musician, and with good reason. His work with Khan, Arzachel, Uriel, Gong and System 7 has all been innovative, compelling and tuneful, with just the […]
03 Jan 2023
Steve Hillage: Ten Albums That Changed My Life (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Steve Hillage continues a discussion of some of his favorite albums. Pink Floyd – Ummagumma (1969) I could’ve easily chosen Piper at the Gates of Dawn, […]
02 Jan 2023
Steve Hillage: Ten Albums That Changed My Life (Part One)
The following is a significantly more in-depth version of a short piece I edited for Goldmine Magazine . — bk Steve Hillage is one of those special musicians whose influence […]
06 Oct 2022
Take Five: Steve Hillage
Let’s Take Five with Steve Hillage… Guitarist Steve Hillage celebrated his 71st birthday recently (August 2). The acclaimed musician was a notable player in the Canterbury, England rock scene of […]
08 Aug 2014
Album Review: Steve Hillage – Rainbow 1977
This week of archival, previously-unreleased live sets wraps up with one that’s both accessible and of excellent sonic quality. In 1977, guitarist Steve Hillage (erstwhile of Gong) was near the […]
03 Jun 2014
Album Review: Clearlight — Impressionist Symphony
With precious few exceptions, attempting a classical-rock hybrid is at worst a fool’s errand, at best a thankless task. All too often, this most ambitious of goals – bringing together […]
07 Feb 2014
Hundred Word Reviews: February 2014, Part Three
I’m making progress in bringing my the contents of my in-box down to a manageable size, but there are still so many albums deserving of coverage that I’ll be doing […]
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