Steve Hillage

Delighted to be joined by multi-talented musician, Steve Hillage on the Synthetic Dreams podcast this week 

Hillage is an Insanely prolific musician, so there was a lot to cram in, but we mange to cover all manner of things, including the early Canterbury music scene, which Steve was a big part of. Meeting Daevid Allen and joining psychedelic rock band, Gong. Steve was in the classic line up of the group, appearing on three of their most successful and best-known records, including the utterly bonkers but brilliant ‘Flying Teapot’ album

After leaving Gong, Steve enjoyed huge success as a solo artist in the mid 70s’s to early 80s, releasing nine well-received albums, including ‘Fish Rising’, ‘Motivation radio’ and the brilliant ‘Green’ album, which, 46 years after its release,  still sounds fantastic and totally way ahead of it’s time.

After nine years as a record producer, Steve formed electronic act, System 7 in 1989 with his parter, Miquette Giraudy, who worked with Steve on all his solo records and was also part of Gong. Impressively, they have released over 14 albums as System 7 and three as Mirror System, including ‘Route 77’, which we discuss in the interview.

As well as being a brilliant electronic artist, Steve is, in my humble opinion, one the greatest guitarist’s this country has ever produced. A guitar hero to a lot of people I’m sure 

"I don't want to be a guitar hero, I want to be a guitar zero!

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Steve Hillage - The Salmon Song (Live)

Steve Hillage - Hurdy Gurdy Man (Live)

System 7 - Field Of Dreams

System 7 - Habbi