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 [...]

Steve Hillage and Gong at The Forum (27th November 2009)-A Review

Hello Good People who read this blog I am recovering from my evening out at the Forum last night in Kentish Town ( in London for anyone who might be reading this in Estonia) to see Steve Hillage and Gong. Our little troupe of Hillage/Gong fans started our  journey to the gig after lots of [...]

Steve Hillage and Gong, better late than never…

Hello Good People who surprise me by still reading this blog during my long absences. This post was originally half written over four weeks ago and was never finished, I was interrupted by the ‘flu,the Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Operas and then had to recover from the exhaustion of all three! Anyway, I am now [...]

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 [...]

…to Solfest, not a review, but some thoughts…

At Solfest,you can pretty much have the experience you want, whether you have small children,don’t have children, love acoustic music, want to go to various excesses of toxicity, want to be healthy and coherent and attend yoga workshops, want to rock, listen to live world music, chill out all night in a psychedelic way or want to dance.

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 [...]

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 [...]

My Metaphorical Comfort Drug: Gong and a bit of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah

Hello good people who read this blog 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]