Bridget Wishart
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| Bridget Wishart | |
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| Born | February 25, 1962 |
| Genre(s) | Rock, Space rock, Psychedelic rock, Proto-punk |
| Instrument(s) | singing, clarinet |
| Label(s) | GWR, Voiceprint, Musea |
Bridget Wishart (born 25 Feb 1962) is a vocalist and performance artist who performed with Hawkwind from 1989 to 1991, appearing on the albums Space Bandits, Palace Springs, California Brainstorm and Take Me to Your Future and, among others, the Nottingham 1990 video.
She obtained BA in Fine Art from the prestigious Newport Art School (now part of the University of Wales, Newport) and an MFA from Reading University. She is a fellow of Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology (now University of Gloucestershire) and taught ceramic sculpture at Prior Park College, Bath.
Her first band was The Demented Stoats in 1979 with Richard Chadwick (Hawkwind's current drummer), followed by Next Years Big Thing and the Hippy Slags, all bands based around Bath.
After leaving Hawkwind she was artist designer and painter for Temple Decor a UV design company used by WOMAD.
Currently she is working with Spirits Burning (a musical collective in the USA run by Don Falcone), and Stephen Palmer's Mooch, a band based in Shropshire.
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