Enough Already! Riots in London August 2011

Hello Good People who read this blog…. ( this was written between around 10pm and 2 a.m.on the night of the London-wide riots) If you are like me, living in London, what a night! I am in a relatively peaceful area but there’s been a strong smell of smoke coming into my living room since [...]

Yey! The Students Are Revolting Again.

Hello Good people who might come across this blog or have read it in the past… ( this post is still being edited!) Back in the seventies a common “joke” usually made by tittering Times readers was ” the students are revolting” as a comment on both their frequent protests and the state of their [...]

From the Sixties to the End of the Noughties..did it match up to expectations?

Hello Good People who read this blog I am listening to music over the headphones while I write this, to keep me focussed and calm,so I might as well start by sharing what I am listening to. Some English sixties folk, Sandy Denny with an acoustic home recorded demo version of Who Knows Where the [...]

Is Everything OK?

Hello Good People who read this blog just a little entry today. Thanks to all the people who contacted me by various means about the little documentary I made, cheers for all your kind and generous comments. I came across this video montage via the Organ fanzine myspace site and wanted to share it with [...]

The Big Green Dispersion and Solfest 2009

Hello Good People who read this blog , (to anyone who read my Guilfest post, I have just added a video clip of Alice Armstrong at the end of it) Just a note to say  that I just got an email from my son telling me that “The Big Green Gathering“, probably the official festival [...]

Behind the Mask or Perfectionism leads to Carnage (+Satan Cowell)

Hello Good People who read this blog This is another personal rant written during a phase of insomnia due to my own troubled waters and smog over London city both keeping me awake. This is not about hippie counterculture but being one of the last surviving hippies living close to the roots of London’s alternative [...]

You Can’t Kill The Spirit (but we have!)

It’s hard to find anyone under forty in London who is not totally apathetic about fighting the system to make this world a free place where individuals can do something positive and feel they have some basic control over their lives.

Green Slimy Politicians, clashing tour dates and Psychedelic Cinderella

Hello once again Good People Who Still Read This Blog 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 auntie they [...]

A (relatively peaceful) Revolution!

Hello Good people who read this blog. I am still here, excuse my absence due to hard work, change and constant illness. Today is both Maggie Thatcher’s birthday ( don’t ask me how I know this) and the death of Thatcher’s vision. I am not sure of what state of mind or coherence she is [...]

“Credit Crunch” your favorite cereal for breakfast or brunch (registered Trade Mark)

Hello Good People who read this blog a little rant this time to change the theme a bit ” Credit Crunch” your favorite cereal for breakfast or brunch (* please see p.s./ footnote) Morning news first thing upon waking  and I have my first tasty helping of ” Credit Crunch“( no relation to Kellogg’s). Whenever [...]