NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Spacemen 3 on 29 July 2017. Spacemen 3 has been played on NTS over 140 times, featured on 116 episodes and was first played on 28 September 2013.

Spacemen 3 were an English neo-psychedelic space rock band formed in 1984 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce (a.k.a. J. Spaceman) and Peter Kember (a.k.a. Sonic Boom). Their first album, Sound of Confusion (1986), was not successful commercially, but it attracted a loyal fan base. Its follow-up, 1987's Perfect Prescription, is a concept album mirroring the highs and lows of a drug trip. It expanded the…