Formed in 1983 and taking their name from an imaginary breakfast cereal, Ozric Tentacles improbably carried their psychedelic jams from a makeshift campsite at Stonehenge to the UK’s Top 20. Devotees can thank their lucky charms in 2020 for what’s proving to be a bumper year in Erpland. After 2019’s exploratory excursion into a solo career with Shimmer Into Nature and live shows under his own moniker, Ed Wynne has resurrected the legendary band with Space For The Earth, the first new Ozrics material in half a decade.
A selection of their starred catalogue has been remastered by the man himself for Kscope and, with another side-project waiting in the wings, Prog spoke to the founder and only remaining original member to see what makes him snap, crackle and pop.