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 [...]

September 7, 2010
Categories: 2010, A Sprinkling of Clouds, alternative lifestyles, ambient, anti-media, bebop, Behaving stupidly although you should be older and wise, brainwashing, club dog, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, David deCameron, Dogs in Space, Drugs, eat static, Electronic Music, electronica, Facebook, festivals, free form jazz, Gong, green politics, Guy Evans, Hippie, hope, How To Stay Alive, individuality, Inequalities, Jim Nield, John Fairhurst, just ranting really, lightshows, live performance, Love and peace, Marley Chingus, Media, Megadog, music, Myspace, Newspeak, Nigel Mazlyn Jones, Party, patriotic military propaganda, Peace, politics, propaganda, psychedelic, Ray Davies, Review, Richard Barry and The Chaps, Rock against racism, security, sitar, songwriting, Stonehenge Free Festival, strobes, Techno, The Damned, the greatest UK hippie festival, there is no age or class limit on being a hippie, Travel broadens the mind or at least cures a nervous breakdown, Uncategorized, Van Der Graaf Generator, yearly gathering festival, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment

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 [...]

December 31, 2009
Categories: 1968, 1969, 2001 a space odyssey, 2010, 60s, advertising, anti-consumerism, Anti-Materialism, Apollo 11, Britain of the Future, CCTV, Climate Change, collaboration, creativity, Dark Side of the Moon, DJ Shadow, eclipse, Endtroducing, Environment, fashion, file sharing, Freedom to protest, Greed, green politics, hope, How To Stay Alive, intimidation, Introducing, Iraq Invasion, Jimi Hendrix, just ranting really, Kraftwerk, London, music, paranoia, Peace, pink floyd, police, Political Apathy, politics, Protest, robots, ROCK, Roger Waters, Sandy Denny, Satan Cowell, Sci-fi, September 11th, sixties London, The Future, the noughties, timewarp, Tomorrow's World, transformation, Understanding, Who Knows Where The Time Goes? . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 6 Comments

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 [...]

July 26, 2009
Categories: alternative lifestyles, anti-consumerism, Anti-Materialism, art, cabaret, Chill-Out, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, Environment, experimental film, festivals, free festivals, gatherings, green politics, Hawkwind, Hippie, law, live performance, Michael Dog, music, Peace, police, psychedelic, Solfest 2009, The Big Green Gathering, The Charlatans, the environment, The Orb, You Can't Kill The Spirit, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 5 Comments

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 [...]

May 14, 2009
Categories: 1978, 2008 Kingsnorth, alternative lifestyles, BBC News, Blank Space, brainwashing, Climate Change, democracy, Egg, Environment, Freedom, Freedom to protest, gatherings, green, green politics, Here & Now, Hippie-phobia, Hippie-phobics, intimidation, Joie Hinton, journalists, law, Meanwhile Gardens, music, Personal paranoia!, police state, Political Intelligence, politics, Protest, psychedelic, punk, rock guitar riffs, society, spiritual music, steve hillage, Terrorist Policemen, The Androids of Mü, The O'Roonies, You Can't Kill The Spirit, Youth, Youth Crime . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment

“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 [...]

March 30, 2009
Categories: 1969, collaboration, counterculture, Crosby Stills and Nash, Environment, Freedom, G20, Greed, green politics, Hippie, London, March 28th, Media, music, News, Peace, Political Intelligence, politics, Protest, Put People First, society, TV, Woodstock . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments

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 [...]

March 6, 2009
Categories: 1979, 2009 year of spiritual psychedelia revival, 60s, 70s, alternative lifestyles, Alternative London, anti-consumerism, Anti-Materialism, aviation pollution, BBC News, Born To Go (Hitchin), CHANGE, Coming full circle, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, Dave Brock, Dave Russell, direct action, experimental music, Fat Freddy's Cat, Freedom to protest, gatherings, Gong, green, green politics, Hawkwind, Hippie, hope, Ladbroke Grove, Led Zep T-shirt, Lemmy, Matthew Wright, Media, Michael Moorcock, Mick Slattery, miquette giraudy, Mirror System, music, Nik Turner, Notting Hill, Nukli, Peace, Peyote Guru, Plane Stupid, police state, politics, Portobello road, Psychedelic Warlords, Rainbow Dome Musick, Rizzla Teeth, rock guitar riffs, Shom, Solfest 2009, Space is Deep, Space Ritual, spiritual music, steve hillage, strobes, Terry Ollis, the environment, the perils of dope cake, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments

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