…to Solfest, not a review, but some thoughts…

At Solfest,you can pretty much have the experience you want, whether you have small children,don’t have children, love acoustic music, want to go to various excesses of toxicity, want to be healthy and coherent and attend yoga workshops, want to rock, listen to live world music, chill out all night in a psychedelic way or want to dance.

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

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(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 most like [...]

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

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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 counterculture [...]

Green Slimy Politicians, clashing tour dates and Psychedelic Cinderella

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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 [...]

for Jason Stuart

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I just made a complete and total arse of myself online…a stupid story. But maybe fated.
In the process of being an idiot I just found out that Jason Stuart, keyboard player from Hawkwind died today after a sudden illness.

Please send a loving thought his way and to all those [...]

Disappearing Acts, Bad Trips and Hawkwind

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Matthew Wright  ( fan of Hawkwind and Here & Now and plain-clothed hippie) of Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff has been back on the TV since Monday . It’s nice to see he is still alive, raising contentious issues and alternating between making my blood boil to making me [...]

The Dave Russell Interviews reborn ( Notting Hill Arts- 1967-72)

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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 [...]

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!). [...]

(Episode Four) Dave Russell – Notting Hill 1967-1972 The Free School, Destruction in Art Symposium, Friends/Frendz magazine and the Rural Retreat

(Episode Four) Notting Hill 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell – More about the Crypt ( arts and community centre), The Free School, Destruction in Art Symposium, Friends/Frendz magazine and the Rural Retreat
*I mention “Friends magazine” but it seems that they also spelt it “Frendz magazine”. For more info on the magazine including examples of [...]