Drug Dealers of Notting Hill ( and nearby) plus dope culture 1979-1981 (part deux)

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My rambling blog is going to attempt at some form of confused continuity by continuing my stories of drug dealers . Please refer to my calendar on the right and click on June the 27th to [...]

The Drug Dealers of Notting Hill

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For some reason I am writing this just before going to bed so there may be some errors that I will correct in the morning, plus I might add bits if I find further info I’d forgotten.
I thought I’d write some recollections by looking at some photos . I [...]

Freaky Coincidence?The Wright Stuff with Matthew Wright

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Something just happened that has freaked me out ( man!)
At 2.a.m. this morning I put up my last blog post about Frestonia, but also I asked if journalist and tv presenter Matthew Wright was a secret anarchist hippie ( although he is also an openly male chauvinist piggie!). [...]

Encrypted: psychedelic nights at the Deptford Crypt

Encrypted
This part is a bit about my involvement with The Crypt in Deptford. Although my memories are hazy I hope that it might spur others to write about their memories of this underground wild psychedelic club in the 1980s in the Crypt St Paul’s Church Deptford.
(photo from Church website www.paulsdeptford.org.uk)
There were other nights run [...]

The Chainsaw Party (still feeling guilty about this)

(Poster from the attic of Michael Dog. Thanks. This post was written before the poster was found so that’s why it might sound weird!)
I still remember the day we went to look at the venue and made the deal with the liberal and ever so sweet vicar.
The Church Hall was a huge old barn with [...]

Who killed the hippies?

Footage of a clamp-down on freedom, peace and anti-materialism
This blog requires some audience participation from you.
If you want to understand some of the things I will be writing about in future posts please watch and compare the following clips. It is a history that needs to be told and has been suppressed.
Footage of Stonehenge Free [...]

What happens when a good idea degrades into chaos and insanity(Anti-Media stories part 5)

What happens when a good idea degrades into chaos and insanity
Terrorism , paranoia and police state!
I have been quite reticent to write some of the items in the next few stories.
Firstly because I want to protect my old acquaintances and I worry that if MI5 or the FBI or Interpol or someone reads this that [...]

There’s a load of crap on the TV again(Anti-Media stories part 4).

anti-media continued….
Some other memories of the Anti-Media films. They took lots of footage at Wapping where there were protests by printers at job losses due to computerisation . I think I may be getting some of my years mixed up…apologies for that ,Wapping was in 1986 but I am talking about involvement with [...]

Modern Life is Rubbish and Harpers and Queen, glossy fashion magazine!(Anti-Media stories part 3)

Now…..Back to the Anti-Media Events
Some further memories of our Anti-Media events at Pentameters.
I remember another film Hogan made which was shown at their events but also at our psychedelic gigs at Club Dog/ Alice in Wonderlands and various venues.
There were 3 bored looking teenage Teddy Boys sitting in a bus shelter. One of the [...]

Goings on in Pentameters Theatre:Anti-Media event, rantings on TV, fashion slavery and incompetent policemen(Anti-Media stories part 2)

I was told to go to a fringe theatre in Hampstead called “Pentameters” above a pub called “The Three Horseshoes” opposite Hampstead tube station.
A lovely smiling woman called Leonie was running this theatre and had allowed the mysterious anti-media people to run an event there. She had no idea what she had taken on. [...]