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 [...]

Psychic Unrest: Forces Defending Human Rights and Forces of Destruction.

I saw a woman around my age who was standing on her own behind me, she was holding up a notepad on which she had simply written in biro :” Parents Against Student Debt”.

Yey! The Students Are Revolting Again.

Hello Good people who might come across this blog or have read it in the past… ( this post is still being edited!) Back in the seventies a common “joke” usually made by tittering Times readers was ” the students are revolting” as a comment on both their frequent protests and the state of their [...]

Acid Mothers Temple,Stearica, Chambers of the Heart (Oxford 30/05/2010)

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the hurricane of electronic sounds and the dedication of the musicians to blow your mind into the ultimate psychedelic experience makes an “Acid Mothers Temple” concert an unmissable cathartic event.

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 [...]

…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 [...]

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 [...]

Our shallow superficial culture and talented people

Hello Good people who read this blog… Some anti-tv vitriol…. I am changing the tone today just for a brief comment on our culture. I have been watching a bit of TV this week and heard about some exceptionally talented singer on some reality TV programme. I thought I would check out what all the [...]