Green Slimy Politicians, clashing tour dates and Psychedelic Cinderella

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Hawkwind -”Space is Deep” a great song and a great little film (apologies for environmentally unfriendly rockets but they are cool)

How are you all? If there is a name for a really terrible blogger who has deserted their dedicated readers like an [...]

My Metaphorical Comfort Drug: Gong and a bit of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah

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Are you sitting comfortably?
Well before we begin since I don’t have anything specific to urgently talk about let us listen to our first hippie anthem of the day to warm up our cockles on this cold evening ( dancing or waving arms about or playing along with wild [...]

Disappearing Acts, Bad Trips and Hawkwind

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Matthew Wright  ( fan of Hawkwind and Here & Now and plain-clothed hippie) of Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff has been back on the TV since Monday . It’s nice to see he is still alive, raising contentious issues and alternating between making my blood boil to making me [...]

Drug Dealers of Notting Hill ( and nearby) plus dope culture 1979-1981 (part deux)

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My rambling blog is going to attempt at some form of confused continuity by continuing my stories of drug dealers . Please refer to my calendar on the right and click on June the 27th to [...]

Steve Hillage always looking to the future: Part one from Hyde Park to Solfest

Steve Hillage always looking to the future: Part one from Hyde Park to Solfest

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This week I thought I’d write a bit about Steve Hillage. It’s very difficult if not impossible to write about Steve Hillage without referring to my life and that of others in relation [...]

(Episode Three) Notting Hill and the Arts 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell – Jazz, Psychedelic Rock Bands, Poetry, Frestonia, Release and Pete Brown’s Battered Ornaments

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(Episode Three) Notting Hill and the Arts 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell – Jazz, Psychedelic Rock Bands, Poetry, Frestonia, Release and Pete Brown’s Battered Ornaments.
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Thanks for waiting, there have been technical problems galore which after complaining to TalkTalk and reformatting the computer [...]

Coming Soon..more of the Crypt in Notting Hill

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Happy New Year
I am still wrestling with my internet connection but I hope to bring you the next part of the Dave Russell interview and more stories of The Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill otherwise known as “The Crypt” of the Methodist Church in Lancaster Road and [...]

(Episode two) Notting Hill and the Arts 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell -Psychedelic rock bands, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Ralph McTell, Davy Graham, lightshows, poets, and drug-taking in a crypt

Interview with Dave Russell on the Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill in the 60s and 70s( Part Two)
Following on from my previous post here is episode 2 of my interview with Dave Russell from a couple of weeks ago. Here he continues to tell us of the gigs and wild arts happenings in Notting [...]

Gong Live Now and Then

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My blog was hacked into earlier this week which of course can make you a bit paranoid also very strange behaviour on my computer so I am offline a lot more!!!!! than usual in case anyone’s trying to contact me.
I thought I’d post a video of Gong who were had a great [...]