Bridget Wishart

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Name = Bridget Wishart


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Instrument = singing, clarinet
Genre = Rock, Space rock, Psychedelic rock, Proto-punk
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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 whose members include Alan Davey, Daevid Allen, Karl E. H. Seigfried, Simon House, and Cyndee Lee Rule. She also works with Stephen Palmer's Mooch, a band based in Shropshire.