Hello Good people who still come to read my blog.
Sorry if it’s a bit bare here of late.
I was starting to do a bit of research on The Crypt in Deptford but ended up interviewing Dave Russell on a totally different Crypt in Notting Hill.
The Crypt of the Methodist Church in Lancaster Road was [...]
November 28, 2007
Categories: 1967, Freedom, Hippie, London, Notting Hill, UFO club, experimental music, film, lightshows, music, pink floyd, psychedelic . Tags: , 1967, experimental music, film, Freedom, Hippie, lightshows, London, music, Notting Hill, pink floyd, psychedelic, UFO club . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment
Is there a revival going on?
When I was at Solfest this year ( the one in Cumbria not in the US ) in the chill out tent there were some fantastic psychedelic, ambient and yes, trance live performances from Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy, Eat Static, various combinations of Ozric Tentacle members ( Nodens Ictus) and [...]
November 21, 2007
Categories: 2.2 Killavolt Cables, Freedom, Gong, Hippie, Megadog, Solfest 2007, ambient, club dog, counterculture, eat static, free festivals, miquette giraudy, music, nodens ictus, ozric tentacles, psychedelic, steve hillage . Tags: , 2.2 Killavolt Cables, ambient, club dog, counterculture, eat static, free festivals, Freedom, Gong, Hippie, Megadog, miquette giraudy, music, nodens ictus, ozric tentacles, psychedelic, Solfest 2007, steve hillage . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments
Hello good people who take the trouble to read this
I ‘ve been ill with ‘flu for a month now after the ‘flu jab which my doctor assured me wouldn’t give me the ‘flu. Next time I see her she will argue that it’s a “reaction” again or that I caught the ‘flu before I had [...]
November 19, 2007
Categories: Anti-Materialism, advertising, anti-consumerism, anti-media, brainwashing, counterculture, politics, psychology, society, terrorism . Tags: advertising, anti-consumerism, Anti-Materialism, anti-media, brainwashing, counterculture, politics, psychology, society, terrorism . Author: born2rant . Comments: 3 Comments
(Poster from the attic of Michael Dog. Thanks. This post was written before the poster was found so that’s why it might sound weird!)
I still remember the day we went to look at the venue and made the deal with the liberal and ever so sweet vicar.
The Church Hall was a huge old barn with [...]
November 12, 2007
Categories: 80s, Hippie, London, Megadog, Treatment, bikers, cabaret, chainsaw party, club dog, counterculture, film, music, psychedelic, punk, the cannibals . Tags: 80s, bikers, cabaret, chainsaw party, club dog, counterculture, film, Hippie, London, Megadog, music, psychedelic, punk, the cannibals, Treatment . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment
Footage of a clamp-down on freedom, peace and anti-materialism
This blog requires some audience participation from you.
If you want to understand some of the things I will be writing about in future posts please watch and compare the following clips. It is a history that needs to be told and has been suppressed.
Footage of Stonehenge Free [...]
November 7, 2007
Categories: 80s, Anti-Materialism, Freedom, Hippie, Peace, Stonehenge, Stonehenge Free Festival, The Battle of the Bean Field, counterculture, free festivals, music, police, police state, politics, psychedelic, punk, society . Tags: 80s, Anti-Materialism, counterculture, Freedom, Hippie, music, Peace, police, police state, politics, psychedelic, punk, society, Stonehenge Free Festival, The Battle of the Bean Field . Author: born2rant . Comments: 8 Comments
What happens when a good idea degrades into chaos and insanity
Terrorism , paranoia and police state!
I have been quite reticent to write some of the items in the next few stories.
Firstly because I want to protect my old acquaintances and I worry that if MI5 or the FBI or Interpol or someone reads this that [...]
November 4, 2007
Categories: 80s, Blur, Cantlin Stone festival, Damon Albarn, George Robey, Hippie, London, Megadog, Mess-age Magnet, Notting Hill Arts Centre, Stonehenge, Treatment, anti-media, brainwashing, counterculture, explosives, free festivals, fringe theatre, modern life is rubbish, music, paranoia, police, police state, politics, privatisation, ronald mac donald, society, spacehijakers, terrorism . Tags: 80s, anti-media, brainwashing, Cantlin Stone festival, counterculture, Damon Albarn, free festivals, fringe theatre, George Robey, Hippie, London, Megadog, Mess-age Magnet, music, Notting Hill Arts Centre, paranoia, police, police state, politics, privatisation, Ronald Mc Donald, society, spacehijakers, Stonehenge, terrorism, Treatment . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments