Simon House (born 29 August 1948 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is a British composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind.

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: "[Pete Pavli and I were] 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 has also played on solo projects by former Hawkwind members Robert Calvert and Nik Turner. Since the 1970s, as well as cutting an album (Interesting Times) with Tony Hill under the High Tide banner and releasing several solo albums under his own name, House has twice rejoined Hawkwind; between 1989 and 1991, and between 2001 and 2003.

Discography

High Tide

Denny Gerrard

Third Ear Band

Hawkwind

Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix

Robert Calvert

David Bowie

Japan

David Sylvian

Thomas Dolby

Mike Oldfield

Magic Muscle

Nik Turner

Simon House

Simon House with Rod Goodway

Spiral Realms

Anubian Lights

Ambient Time Travellers

Adrian Shaw

Bedouin

Earth Lab

Judy Dyble

Astralasia

Spirits Burning

Nektar

Alan Davey