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 [...]

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.

Open Mic Songwriting Communities

Hello Good People who read this blog…. Here’s me sounding terribly posh with an Ethnomusicology documentary on how acoustic/folk clubs support and help develop new songs and performance. Sometimes, like other academic research, I might be stating the bloody obvious, or putting long words to simple ideas, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. Part [...]

Too much partying: Hawkwind and onto Solfest…

But here we all were, in the middle of London,in the middle of the day, in a town which is half-way to being a chilling example of a police state, and yet one of the most political, anti-authoritarian bands ever, had escaped attention from the local coppers.

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 [...]

Guilfest 2009 delayed review of a mishmash festival

Entering into the main festival site was always a bit like going into a strange concentration camp with no human rights or freedoms but with lots of good music and where you could still smoke at a live gig.

I am on a lonely road and I am travelling, travelling, travelling…

Hello Good People who read this blog in my absence… (This blog entry was written after listening to hours of Joni Mitchell on my travels…) I thought of you all on Solstice morning . The light was shining through the curtains of my guest room not long past 4 a.m. , unable to sleep I [...]

Behind the Mask or Perfectionism leads to Carnage (+Satan Cowell)

Hello Good People who read this blog This is another personal rant written during a phase of insomnia due to my own troubled waters and smog over London city both keeping me awake. This is not about hippie counterculture but being one of the last surviving hippies living close to the roots of London’s alternative [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]