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Lamp of the Universe

Datura

Totally under-the-radar stoner rock band that formed in 1992 in Hamilton.

They were a trio comprised of Craig Williamson (bass and vocals – now performing in a solo capacity as Lamp of the Universe), Brent Middlemiss (guitar) and Jon Burnside (drums), and that they released 2 albums of drawn-out stoner-psych jams on the unknown Cranium label, and actually reissued on U.S. label Brainticket.

Lamp of the Universe

Hamilton-based former Datura multi-instrumentalist Craig Williamson has released an ever-growing discography of solo albums since Datura’s demise in the late 1990s, originally under his own name, but now under the bizarre hippy-pseudonym Lamp of the Universe.