Disappearing Acts, Bad Trips and Hawkwind

Hello Good People who read this blog 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 [...]

September 3, 2008
Categories: 1974, 70s, Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill, bad trip, Carlyle Reedy, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, Dave Brock, dodgy blokes saying "Nice One", dope, egomaniacs, Hall of the Mountain Grill, Hawkwind, Hell's Angels, Here & Now, Hippie, Julie Andrews, Ladbroke Grove, Lemmy, London, Matthew Wright, music, Notting Hill, Notting Hill Arts Centre, Personal paranoia!, psychedelic, Psychedelic Warlords, punk, punks, Rizzla Teeth, the perils of dope cake, The Wright Stuff . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment

The Dave Russell Interviews reborn ( Notting Hill Arts- 1967-72)

Hello Good People who read this blog If you go back in time to my earlier entries you will find some interesting stories about Notting Hill in the 60s and 70s and also Anti-Media activities in the 80s , bits about the gigs before Club Dog etc…. However I have been having problems with technology [...]

July 7, 2008
Categories: 1967, 1972, 60s, acoustic punk, alternative lifestyles, anti-consumerism, art, Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill, Carlyle Reedy, club dog, Cornelius Cardew, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, creativity, Dave Russell, experimental film, experimental theatre, film, folk clubs, folk music, free form jazz, fringe theatre, gatherings, Gong, Hawkwind, Hippie, Iain Jacobs, jazz, John Cage, Keith Christmas, Ladbroke Grove, lightshows, London, music, Notting Hill, performance poetry, Pete Brown, Photographs, poetry, politics, Portobello road, psychedelic, Quintessence, Ron Geesin, sixties London, society, Stockhausen, strobes, The Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill ( the crypt), The Crypt Notting Hill, The Free School, The People Band, The People Show, UFO club, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment

(Episode Four) Dave Russell – Notting Hill 1967-1972 The Free School, Destruction in Art Symposium, Friends/Frendz magazine and the Rural Retreat

(Episode Four) Notting Hill 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell – More about the Crypt ( arts and community centre), The Free School, Destruction in Art Symposium, Friends/Frendz magazine and the Rural Retreat *I mention “Friends magazine” but it seems that they also spelt it “Frendz magazine”. For more info on the magazine including examples [...]

January 25, 2008
Categories: 1967, 1972, Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill, Carlyle Reedy, counterculture, creativity, Dave Russell, Destruction in Art Symposium, free form jazz, Friends Magazine, Hawkwind, Hippie, Iain Jacobs, Ladbroke Grove, Michael Moorcock, music, Notting Hill, poetry, Portobello road, psychedelic, Rural retreatist Counterculture, sixties London, The Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill ( the crypt), The Free School . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 5 Comments

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