From the Sixties to the End of the Noughties..did it match up to expectations?

Hello Good People who read this blog I am listening to music over the headphones while I write this, to keep me focussed and calm,so I might as well start by sharing what I am listening to. Some English sixties folk, Sandy Denny with an acoustic home recorded demo version of Who Knows Where the [...]

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 [...]

The Police harasses some terribly nice middle-class white English people in possession of terrorist crayons.

Hello Good People who read this blog ( this is a revised version of earlier entries. I do this sometimes when I think of extra things…sorry if it is irritating) To begin some more meditative music to generate peace in the world I forgot how completely amazing this piece of music was until  I just [...]

“Political Intelligence” versus sitting around to watch the world end.

Hello Good People who read this blog I make no apologies for this entry being political.  This is THE most important time to think about politics. I went on the Put People First G20 March on Saturday. I had such a great time. I joined the Oxfam group rather than march alone. I have done [...]

Peaceful Protest (we hope) G20 London

This morning it’s time to prove hippies still want to change the world. “On 28th March thousands will march through London as part of a global campaign to challenge the G20, ahead of their 2nd April summit on the global financial crisis. Even before the banking collapse, the world suffered poverty, inequality and the threat [...]

Solfest (Cumbria) and Perverto Rules

Hello Good People who still read this blog… Last year at the Solfest festival in Cumbria I had a fantastic time at the “Dogs in Space” Chill Out tent. Highlights included meeting Steve Hillage again, hanging out with the Ozrics and seeing Joie again, being kept up all night by virtue of Eat Static doing [...]