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Over the years Turner has played with many musicians and collaborations.
Directly after leaving Hawkwind he formed a band with Steve Hillage of Gong.
In the late 1970s when Steve Took's Horns broke up he formed Inner City Unit (ICU) from the key Horns members: Judge Trev Thoms and Dino Ferari although Steve Peregrin Took (ex- T Rex) continued to work with his former band members and guested with ICU at a number of gigs.
Turner also worked with Twink under the name PinkWind. Turner bringing in the Wind from Hawkwind and Twink, as a founder of the original line-up of The Pink Fairies (Mark 1) with Steve Took and Mick FarrenMick Farren is a UK Underground/ counterculture radical and anarchist. Underground Press International Times writer. Lead singer with the Deviants. He also went on to write for the main stream UK Music Paper New Musical Express NME as well as becoming a p providing the Pink. PinkWind released two albums. Some line-ups also featured Judge Trev Thoms.
Turner has varied tastes in music and his bands reflect this. Recently his two main bands have been StaceRitual and Nik Turner's Allstars with flexible and overlapping line-ups (as was the case in the early 1970s with Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies.) At some of his gigs former Hawkwind members guest including Ron TreeRon Tree is a United Kingdom Musician and Song writer originally from Leeds, West Yorkshire. His biggest claim to fame so far is as bassist and frontman for UK Underground Space rock band Hawkwind from 1995- 2002. Ron Tree has worked with Prior to Hawkwin and, until his death, Robert CalvertRobert Newton Calvert ( 9 March 1945- 14 August 1988) lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind, intermittently from 1972-1979, who went on to a less successful, but intriguing, separate career. He was believed to have suffered from bipolar disorder..
Turner regularly plays with new and experimental musicians and also busksSydney, Australia Busking is the practice of performing in public places to receive donations of money. The performance is often musical, but juggling, comedy and sometimes magic are also displayed. People Many people perform on the street for a variety o near his home.
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