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 [...]

March 6, 2009
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My Metaphorical Comfort Drug: Gong and a bit of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah

Hello good people who read this blog
Are you sitting comfortably?
Well before we begin since I don’t have anything specific to urgently talk about let us listen to our first hippie anthem of the day to warm up our cockles on this cold evening ( dancing or waving arms about or playing along with wild [...]

October 29, 2008
Categories: 60s, 70s, BBC News, Behaving stupidly although you should be older and wise, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, CHANGE, Creative Lunatics, Economic crisis, Eric Idle, Gamelan, Gong, Gorgon Brown ( yes I know he's a bloke..or is he?), Hippie, London, Money, News, Notting Hill, Rizzla Teeth, alcohol, anti-media, cannabis, counterculture, jazz, just ranting really, music, paranoia, politics, psychedelic, self-sufficiency, society, television, the rich, timewarp . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment

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 and [...]

July 7, 2008
Categories: 1967, 1972, 60s, Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill, Carlyle Reedy, Cornelius Cardew, Creative Lunatics, Dave Russell, Gong, Hawkwind, Hippie, Iain Jacobs, John Cage, Keith Christmas, Ladbroke Grove, London, Notting Hill, Pete Brown, Photographs, Portobello road, Quintessence, Ron Geesin, Stockhausen, The Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill ( the crypt), The Crypt Notting Hill, The Free School, The People Band, The People Show, UFO club, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide, acoustic punk, alternative lifestyles, anti-consumerism, art, club dog, counterculture, creativity, experimental film, experimental theatre, film, folk clubs, folk music, free form jazz, fringe theatre, gatherings, jazz, lightshows, music, performance poetry, poetry, politics, psychedelic, sixties London, society, strobes . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment

(Episode two) Notting Hill and the Arts 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell -Psychedelic rock bands, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Ralph McTell, Davy Graham, lightshows, poets, and drug-taking in a crypt

Interview with Dave Russell on the Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill in the 60s and 70s( Part Two)
Following on from my previous post here is episode 2 of my interview with Dave Russell from a couple of weeks ago. Here he continues to tell us of the gigs and wild arts happenings in Notting [...]

December 14, 2007
Categories: 1967, 60s, 70s, Dave Russell, Davy Graham, Freedom, Frestonia, Gong, Hawkwind, Hippie, Keith Christmas, Ladbroke Grove, Lemmy, London, Notting Hill, Portobello road, Quintessence, Quiver, Ralph McTell, Ron Geesin, Stockhausen, The Arts and Community Centre Notting Hill ( the crypt), art, counterculture, creativity, experimental film, folk music, jazz, lightshows, music, performance poetry, pink floyd, punk, sixties London, strobes . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment

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 acoustic and poetry [...]

December 12, 2007
Categories: 1967, Bunjies, Cornelius Cardew, Dave Russell, Freedom, Gong, Hawkwind, Hippie, John Cage, Lemmy, London, Notting Hill, Portobello road, Quintessence, Quiver, Stockhausen, The People Show, acoustic punk, art, counterculture, creativity, experimental film, experimental music, free form jazz, fringe theatre, jazz, lightshows, music, performance poetry, pink floyd, psychedelic, sixties London, steve hillage, strobes . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments

Coming soon..Notting Hill in the sixties

Hello good people
I just wanted to apologise for not doing the intended blog on Monday as promised yet. I am working on it!
It will appear over the next couple of days though.
I am having some technical difficulties of many dimensions!
It will be an interview with Dave Russell on the Music and Arts scene in [...]

December 11, 2007
Categories: 60s, Dave Russell, Hippie, Jimi Hendrix, Notting Hill, music, my living room on a Saturday night, sixties London . Tags: , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments