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 [...]

November 28, 2009
Categories: 2009 year of spiritual psychedelia revival, Air Guitar, alternative lifestyles, Alternative London, ambient, Camembert Electrique, Chill-Out, Chris Taylor, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, Daevid Allen, experimental music, free form jazz, gatherings, Gig, Gilli Smyth, Gong, green, Hippie, hope, jazz, L, live performance, London, Love and peace, Mike Howlett, miquette giraudy, music, performance poetry, Photographs, psychedelic, Radio Gnome, Review, ROCK, spiritual music, steve hillage, Steve Hillage Band, strobes, System 7, Theo Travis, timewarp, Trance, You Can't Kill Me . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 3 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

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

Steve Hillage Part 3 :Gone to Heaven and Found System 7

Steve Hillage Part 3 :Gone to Heaven and Found System 7 (something old , something new, something borrowed,something Green) Hello Good People who read this blog! (sorry about typos I am still editing this!) Apologies for the delay since my last entry. Yesterday… I went to Heaven last night and saw System 7. Preamble…. I [...]

February 22, 2008
Categories: Alex Paterson, ambient, counterculture, creativity, Democratic Republic of Congo, eat static, electronica, experimental music, Gong, green, Heaven ( club), Hippie, Joie Hinton, just ranting really, Launch party, lightshows, London, Megadog, Merv Peppler, miquette giraudy, music, Nick Mulvey, Phoenix, psychedelic, rock guitar riffs, Slack Baba, Solfest 2007, spiritual music, steve hillage, System 7, Techno, The Orb, The People Band, Trance . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments

Steve Hillage: Part Two trying to reach number 7

Steve Hillage: Part Two trying to reach number 7 Hello good people who read this blog If Steve Hillage had been a spy I am sure he would not have called himself 007 but maybe 777. On the “System 7″ site the contact e-mail is s777@a-wave.com. (oh but please don’t bombard them with spam!). There [...]

February 8, 2008
Categories: 1977, 7, ambient, green, just ranting really, miquette giraudy, music, numerology, steve hillage, System 7, Trance . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 4 Comments

Steve Hillage always looking to the future: Part one from Hyde Park to Solfest

Steve Hillage always looking to the future: Part one from Hyde Park to Solfest Hello Good people who read this blog… This week I thought I’d write a bit about Steve Hillage. It’s very difficult if not impossible to write about Steve Hillage without referring to my life and that of others in relation to [...]

February 4, 2008
Categories: 1976, 1977, 1979, 70s, club dog, counterculture, free festivals, Gong, green, Hippie, Hyde Park, Jimi Hendrix, just ranting really, Live Herald, London, Megadog, miquette giraudy, music, music journalists, psychedelic, Rainbow Dome Musick, Solfest 2007, steve hillage, System 7 . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments

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