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 [...]

Notting Hill and the Arts 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell – Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Gong and more…(Episode One)

Interview with Dave Russell on the Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill in the 60s and 70s( Part One) I first met my good friend Dave Russell in 1993 at “Bunjies” in Litchfield Street, off Charing Cross Road. We both used to perform there regularly in their legendary folk cellar. When I ran my own [...]

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 [...]

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 Anti-Media [...]

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 [...]

Goings on in Pentameters Theatre:Anti-Media event, rantings on TV, fashion slavery and incompetent policemen(Anti-Media stories part 2)

I was told to go to a fringe theatre in Hampstead called “Pentameters” above a pub called “The Three Horseshoes” opposite Hampstead tube station. A lovely smiling woman called Leonie was running this theatre and had allowed the mysterious anti-media people to run an event there. She had no idea what she had taken on. [...]

Anti-media, aliens, hippies and the 80s subculture in North London(Anti-Media Stories part 1).

“Anti-Media”= a very small bunch of radical loonies including me. We need them now! Names of some of my Anti-Media associates have been changed to protect them. How I was recruited …. Back in the early eighties…… The Anti-Media people had seen my alien act at “The Chainsaw Party” a crazy spoof heavy metal gig [...]