Editing Hawkwind (section)

===1986–1999: GWR through to EBS===
A headline appearance at the 1986 Reading Festival was followed by a UK tour to promote the ''Live Chronicles'' album which was filmed and released as ''[[Chaos (Hawkwind video)|Chaos]]''. In 1988 the band recorded the album ''[[The Xenon Codex]]'' with Guy Bidmead, but all was not well in the band and soon after, both Lloyd-Langton and Thompson departed.

Drummer Richard Chadwick, who joined in the summer of 1988, had been playing in small alternative free festival bands, most notably Bath's Smart Pils, for a decade and had frequently crossed paths with Hawkwind and Brock. He was initially invited simply to play with the band, but eventually replaced stand in drummer Mick Kirton to become the band's drummer to the present day.

To fill in the gap of lead sound, lost when Lloyd-Langton left, violinist House was re-instated into the line-up in 1989 (having previously been a member from 1974 until 1978), and, notably, Hawkwind embarked on their first North American visit in eleven years (since the somewhat disastrous 1978 tour), in which House did not partake. The successfully received tour was the first of several over the coming years, in an effort by the band to re-introduce themselves to the American market.

[[Bridget Wishart]], an associate of Chadwick's from the festival circuit, also joined to become the band's one and only singing front-woman, the band had been fronted in earlier days by Stacia but only as a dancer. This band produced two albums, 1990's ''[[Space Bandits]]'' and 1991's ''[[Palace Springs (album)|Palace Springs]]'' and also filmed a one-hour appearance for the ''[[Nottingham (Hawkwind video)|Bedrock TV]]'' series with dancer Julie Murray-Anderson, who performed with Hawkwind between 1988 and 1991.

1990 saw Hawkwind tour North America again, the second instalment in a series of American visits made at around this time in an effort to re-establish the Hawkwind brand in America. The original business plan was to hold three consecutive US tours, annually, from 1989 to 1991, with the first losing money, the second breaking even, and the third turning a profit, ultimately bringing Hawkwind back into recognition across the Atlantic. Progress, however, was somewhat stunted, due to ex-member Nik Turner touring the United States with his own band at the time, in which the shows were often marketed as Hawkwind.

Still supporting Space Bandits, 1991 commenced with perhaps the most surprising Hawkwind tour in the band's history, without Dave Brock. Brock's temporary replacement was former Smart Pils guitarist Steve Bemand (who had played with Chadwick and Wishart in the Demented Stoats). The tour began in Amsterdam on 12 March and took in Germany, Greece, Italy and France before wrapping up in Belgium on 10 April after 24 dates.<ref>Sonic Assassins, Chapter 17 – Ian Abrahams (Published by SAF publishing; {{ISBN|0-946719-69-1}})</ref>

In 1991 Bainbridge, House and Wishart departed and the band continued as a three piece relying heavily on synthesisers and sequencers to create a wall-of-sound. The 1992 album ''[[Electric Tepee]]'' combined hard rock and light ambient pieces, while ''[[It is the Business of the Future to be Dangerous]]'' is almost devoid of the rock leanings. ''[[The Business Trip]]'' is a record of the previous album's tour, but rockier as would be expected from a live outing. The ''[[White Zone]]'' album was released under the alias Psychedelic Warriors to distance itself entirely from the rock expectancy of Hawkwind.

A general criticism of techno music at that time was its facelessness and lack of personality, which the band were coming to feel also plagued them.<ref>Clerk, ''The Saga of Hawkwind'', p. 413.</ref> [[Ron Tree]] had known the band on the festival circuit and offered his services as a front-man, and the band duly employed him for the album ''[[Alien 4 (album)|Alien 4]]'' and its accompanying tour which resulted in the album ''[[Love in Space]]'' and ''[[Love in Space (Hawkwind video)|video]]''.

In 1996, unhappy with the musical direction of the band, bassist Davey left, forming his own Middle-Eastern flavoured hard-rock group Bedouin and a Motörhead tribute act named Ace of Spades.<ref>Clerk, ''The Saga of Hawkwind'', p. 418.</ref> His bass playing role was reluctantly picked up by singer Tree and the band were joined full-time by lead guitarist Jerry Richards (another stalwart of the festival scene, playing for Tubilah Dog who had merged with Brock's Agents of Chaos during 1988) for the albums ''[[Distant Horizons]]'' and ''[[In Your Area]]''. Rasta chanter [[Captain Rizz]] also joined the band for guest spots during live shows.