The live tracks were recorded during the band's 1989 tour of North America, their first tour there since the late 1970s. The Minneapolis show was issued as a double CD in 2008 by Voiceprint.^[3]

Set edit

The full set typically ran as "Magnu", "Down Through The Night", "Treadmill", "Time We Left"/"Heads", "Hassan I Sabbah", "Wind Of Change", "Assault and Battery", "The Golden Void", "Back In The Box"/"Arrival In Utopia", "Brainstorm", "Dream Worker" and "Damnation Alley" with an encore of "Needle Gun" and/or "Ejection".^[4]

Tour dates edit

• 24 September: Toronto, Diamond
• 26 September: Washington, 9:30 Club
• 27 September: Sommerville, Johnny D's
• 28 September: New York, New Ritz
• 29 September: Ardmore, 23 East Cabaret
• 30 September: Cleveland, Phantasy Theater
• 1 October: Chicago, Lounge Axe
• 3 October: Milwaukee, Odd Rock Cafe
• 4 October: Minneapolis, First Avenue
• 7 October: San Francisco, Stone
• 9 October: Santa Clara, One Step Beyond
• 10 October: Los Angeles, Palace
• 12 October: San Diego, Bacchanal^[4]

Atomhenge bonus CD tracks 1-11 was released in USA as California Branstorm in July 1992 (Iloki – ILCD1014), and in UK December 1994 (Cyclops – CYCL-015) including track 12 as a bonus track.

Side 1 edit

1. "Back in the Box" (Harvey Bainbridge, Dave Brock, Alan Davey, Bridget Wishart) – 6:21
2. "Treadmill" (Brock) – 8:09
3. "Assault and Battery" [listed as "Lives of Great Men"] (Brock) – 3:26
4. "The Golden Void" [listed as "Void of Golden Light"] (Brock) – 6:51

Side 2 edit

5. "Time We Left (This World Today)" (Brock) / "Heads" (Brock, Roger Neville-Neil) – 7:19
6. "Acid Test" [aka "Dream Worker"] (Bainbridge) – 6:01
7. "Damnation Alley" (Robert Calvert, Brock, Simon House) – 7:15

Atomhenge CD bonus tracks edit

9. "The Damage Of Life" (Brock) – 7:21
10. "Treadmill / Time We Left" [alternate version] (Brock) – 9:23

Atomhenge bonus CD: "California Brainstorm" edit

1. "Void's End" (Dave Brock) – 5:28
2. "Ejection" (Robert Calvert) – 5:58
3. "Brainstorm" (Nik Turner) – 8:51
4. "Out Of The Shadows" (Bridget Wishart, Brock, Alan Davey) – 8:27
5. "Eons" [aka "Snake Dance"] (Davey, Brock, Harvey Bainbridge, Richard Chadwick) - 4:16
6. "Night Of The Hawks" (Brock) - 5:24
7. "TV Suicide" (Bainbridge) - 7:09
8. "Back In The Box" (Davey, Wishart, Brock, Bainbridge, Chadwick) - 9.13
9. "Assassins Of Allah" (Brock, Calvert) – 3:51
10. "Propaganda" (Brock) – 1:07
11. "Reefer Madness" (Brock, Calvert) – 8:28
12. "Images" (Wishart, Brock, Davey) – 6:17

Notes edit

Disc one:

• "Assault and Battery" and "The Golden Void" were renamed for publishing purposes. However, in renaming the tracks, their titles were erroneously transposed.
• Although "Heads" forms the middle section of "Time We Left (This World Today)", it is banded as a separate track on the CD.
• "Damnation Alley" has a different middle section to the Quark, Strangeness and Charm studio version, this one being a reggae influenced piece that would be worked into "The Camera That Could Lie" from It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous album.

Hawkwind

• Bridget Wishart – vocals
• Dave Brock – electric guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Harvey Bainbridge – keyboards, vocals
• Alan Davey – bass guitar, vocals
• Simon House – violin
• Richard Chadwick – drums

• Disc one: Tracks 3-7 recorded live at Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 10 October 1989
• Disc two: Recorded live at Omni Theatre, Oakland, CA, USA, 16 December 1990

• June 1991: GWR, GWLP104, UK
• July 1992: Castle Communications, CLACD303, UK/Germany
• July 1999: Castle Communications, ESMCD739, UK CD digipak
• November 2012: Atomhenge (Cherry Red) Records, ATOMCD 21034