Day 2 at my Imaginary Glastonbury- Saturday

Hello Good People who still sometimes read this blog… (still editing this, sorry about errors, it was written in free-flowing time) In a fit of self-serving blogging to cheer me up, I am going to bore you all with Day Two of my imaginary ideal Glastonbury. It’s Saturday , so it will be a long [...]

Too busy living to blog or watch TV, plus a teeny bit about Solfest 2010

Hello Good People who evidently still read this blog… I keep trying to give up this blog for good but it’s up there in cyberspace without me, just like the millions of  photographs of teenagers on Facebook,  who may at some time, rue the day they allowed photos of, and  information about themselves, to be [...]

Solfest (Cumbria) 2008…a personal journey

Hello Good people who read this blog (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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Hello Good people who read this blog… 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 to [...]

Gong Live Now and Then

Hello good people 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 [...]

Encrypted: psychedelic nights at the Deptford Crypt

Encrypted This part is a bit about my involvement with The Crypt in Deptford. Although my memories are hazy I hope that it might spur others to write about their memories of this underground wild psychedelic club in the 1980s in the Crypt St Paul’s Church Deptford. (photo from Church website www.paulsdeptford.org.uk) There were other [...]

Steve Hillage , Solfest 2007 and revivals

Is there a revival going on? When I was at Solfest this year ( the one in Cumbria not in the US ) in the chill out tent there were some fantastic psychedelic, ambient and yes, trance live performances from Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy, Eat Static, various combinations of Ozric Tentacle members ( Nodens Ictus) [...]

The Chainsaw Party (still feeling guilty about this)

(Poster from the attic of Michael Dog. Thanks. This post was written before the poster was found so that’s why it might sound weird!) I still remember the day we went to look at the venue and made the deal with the liberal and ever so sweet vicar. The Church Hall was a huge old [...]