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 you.
It [...]

The Big Green Dispersion and Solfest 2009

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(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 most like [...]

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

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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 counterculture [...]

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 [...]

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 in due to [...]

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

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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 I hear the term [...]

Solfest (Cumbria) 2008…a personal journey

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(there may be some editorial mistakes I missed still swimming about)
( this post is very long to save your eyes from going funny copy it & print it!)
I am still coming down from the high of going to Solfest where although there were some initial stresses a thoroughly [...]

(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

Carlyle Reedy
(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 [...]

Christmas TV….My nightmare!( a personal rant with nothing much to do with hippiecounterculture)

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I will be bringing you more of the Dave Russell interview on the Arts and Community Centre in Notting Hill sometime soon. At the moment it is proving to be impossible due to the very bad internet connection I have with TalkTalk if it doesn’t get better soon I’ll [...]