Simon House


Simon House was an English composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind.

Life and 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: " 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 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.

Discography

High Tide

Sea Shanties High Tide Interesting Times Precious Cargo
  • ''The Flood''

Denny Gerrard

  • ''Sinister Morning''

Third Ear Band

Music from Macbeth
  • ''The Magus''

Hawkwind

Hall of the Mountain Grill Warrior on the Edge of Time Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music Quark, Strangeness and Charm PXR5 Lord of Light Space Bandits Palace Springs Live in Nottingham 1990 Anthology, 1967-1982 Stasis: The U.A. Years, 1971-1975 Yule Ritual Canterbury Fayre 2001
  • ''The Weird Tapes No. 5: Live '76 & '77''

Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix

Robert Calvert

Lucky Leif and the Longships Hype: Songs of Tom Mahler
  • ''Revenge''

David Bowie

Stage Lodger Sound + Vision

Japan

Tin Drum Gentlemen Take Polaroids/Tin Drum/Oil on Canvas
  • ''Exorcising Ghosts''

David Sylvian

Thomas Dolby

She Blinded Me With Science The Golden Age of Wireless

Mike Oldfield

  • "Crises"
  • ''The Complete Mike Oldfield''

Magic Muscle

One Hundred Miles Below
  • ''Gulp''

Nik Turner

Prophets of Time Transglobal Friends and Relations Space Gypsy
  • ''Life In Space''

Simon House

Yassasim
  • ''Spiral Galaxy Revisited''

Simon House with Rod Goodway

  • ''House of Dreams''

Spiral Realms

A Trip to G9 Crystal Jungles of Eos Solar Wind
  • ''Ambient Voids: A Hypnotic Compilation''

Anubian Lights

The Eternal Sky
  • ''Jackal & Nine''

Ambient Time Travellers

  • ''Ambient Time Travellers''

Adrian Shaw

  • ''Head Cleaner''

Bedouin

  • ''As Above So Below''

Earth Lab

  • ''Element''

Judy Dyble

Enchanted Garden Spindle
  • ''The Whorl''

Astralasia

Cluster of Waves
  • ''Away With the Fairies''

Spirits Burning

Earthborn
  • ''Bloodlines''

Nektar

  • ''A Spoonful of Time''

Alan Davey

  • ''Eclectic Devils''