Stacia Blake: From Hawkwind to Art and Activism | Music News

Music News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 4, 2026 · 2m

Stacia Blake, once a stage dancer with Hawkwind, is finally telling her own story — no more myths, no more secondhand tales. She joined the band in 1971 after a spontaneous request to dance, ended up touring with them on the legendary Space Ritual, and later vanished from public life after moving to Germany and then Ireland. She pursued art, exhibited internationally, and openly acknowledges the sexism she faced as a woman in rock. Her childhood dream? A thousand pounds and stardom — she even wrote to Omar Sharif. A free spirit who lived by instinct, she recalls hitchhiking to gigs and…