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 [...]

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 [...]

Our shallow superficial culture and talented people

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Some anti-tv vitriol….
I am changing the tone today just for a brief comment on our culture.
I have been watching a bit of TV this week and heard about some exceptionally talented singer on some reality TV programme. I thought I would check out what all the fuss is about. [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anti-Media Anti-Brainwashing Anti-Virus Anti-Spyware

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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 [...]

What happens when a good idea degrades into chaos and insanity(Anti-Media stories part 5)

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 [...]

There’s a load of crap on the TV again(Anti-Media stories part 4).

anti-media continued….
Some other memories of the Anti-Media films. They took lots of footage at Wapping where there were protests by printers at job losses due to computerisation . I think I may be getting some of my years mixed up…apologies for that ,Wapping was in 1986 but I am talking about involvement with [...]

Modern Life is Rubbish and Harpers and Queen, glossy fashion magazine!(Anti-Media stories part 3)

Now…..Back to the Anti-Media Events
Some further memories of our Anti-Media events at Pentameters.
I remember another film Hogan made which was shown at their events but also at our psychedelic gigs at Club Dog/ Alice in Wonderlands and various venues.
There were 3 bored looking teenage Teddy Boys sitting in a bus shelter. One of the [...]