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 [...]

Solfest (Cumbria) 2008…a personal journey

Hello Good people who read this blog (there may be some editorial mistakes I missed still swimming about) ( this post is very long to save your eyes from going funny copy it & print it!) I am still coming down from the high of going to Solfest where although there were some initial stresses [...]

Psychedelic Crypts!

Hello Good people who still come to read my blog. Sorry if it’s a bit bare here of late. I was starting to do a bit of research on The Crypt in Deptford but ended up interviewing Dave Russell on a totally different Crypt in Notting Hill. The Crypt of the Methodist Church in Lancaster [...]

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 [...]

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 Anti-Media [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Anti-media, aliens, hippies and the 80s subculture in North London(Anti-Media Stories part 1).

“Anti-Media”= a very small bunch of radical loonies including me. We need them now! Names of some of my Anti-Media associates have been changed to protect them. How I was recruited …. Back in the early eighties…… The Anti-Media people had seen my alien act at “The Chainsaw Party” a crazy spoof heavy metal gig [...]