Hello Good People who read this blog just a little entry today. Thanks to all the people who contacted me by various means about the little documentary I made, cheers for all your kind and generous comments.
I came across this video montage via the Organ fanzine myspace site and wanted to share it with you.
It [...]
October 4, 2009
Categories: 1977, 1978, Alternative London, Anti-Materialism, CCTV, Creative Lunatics, Fake Policemen, Freedom, Freedom to protest, Hippie, Inequalities, Live Herald, London, Mirror System, Organ magazine, Searching for the Spark, alternative lifestyles, anti-consumerism, anti-media, counterculture, experimental music, free speech, miquette giraudy, steve hillage . Tags: 1977, 1978, alternative lifestyles, Alternative London, anti-consumerism, Anti-Materialism, anti-media, CCTV, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, experimental music, Fake Policemen, free speech, Freedom, Freedom to protest, Hippie, Inequalities, Live Herald, London, miquette giraudy, Mirror System, music, Organ magazine, politics, Searching for the Spark, security services, steve hillage . Author: born2rant . Comments: 5 Comments
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.
September 8, 2009
Categories: Ashan Project, Behaving stupidly although you should be older and wise, Beki Bondage, Chill-Out, Creative Lunatics, Drugs, Hawkwind, Hippie, Music Biz, Narcotics, Party, ROCK, Solfest 2009, The Orb, Urban Gypsies, World Music, alternative lifestyles, blah, counterculture, creativity, festivals, free festivals, gatherings, individuality, just ranting really, live performance, music, personal blogging, society . Tags: alternative lifestyles, Ashan Project, Behaving stupidly although you should be older and wise, Beki Bondage, blah, Chill-Out, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, creativity, Drugs, festivals, free festivals, gatherings, Hawkwind, Hippie, individuality, just ranting really, live performance, music, Music Biz, Narcotics, Party, personal blogging, ROCK, society, Solfest 2009, The Orb, Urban Gypsies, World Music . Author: born2rant . Comments: 5 Comments
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.
September 6, 2009
Categories: Bruce Dickinson, Dave Brock, Hawkwind, Hell's Angels, Hippie, Huw Lloyd-Langton, Ladbroke Grove, Lemmy, London, Matthew Wright, Megadog, Mick Slattery, Motorhead, Nik Turner, Party, Porchester Hall, Portobello road, ROCK, Terry Ollis, Tim Blake, Vogon Poetry, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide, cannabis, free festivals, lightshows, live performance, music, rock guitar riffs . Tags: cannabis, Categories: Dave Brock, free festivals, Hawkwind, Hell's Angels, Hippie, Huw Lloyd-Langton, Ladbroke Grove, Lemmy, lightshows, London, Matthew Wright, Megadog, Mick Slattery, Motorhead, music, Nik Turner, Party, Porchester Hall, Portobello road, ROCK, rock guitar riffs, Terry Ollis, Tim Blake, Vogon Poetry, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide . Author: born2rant . Comments: 4 Comments
Hello Good People who read this blog, I just wanted to say that I am sorry I haven’t managed to put my little radio prog up here yet. It means a few hours work putting it up on youtube with photos and captions and I am just too busy to do it at the mo.
To [...]
August 6, 2009
Categories: 1978, Freedom, Hippie, Love, Peace, The Big Chill, Understanding, individuality, music, steve hillage . Tags: Freedom, Gong, Hippie, individuality, Love, music, Peace, steve hillage, The Big Chill, Understanding . Author: born2rant . Comments: 1 Comment
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 most like [...]
July 26, 2009
Categories: Anti-Materialism, Chill-Out, Creative Lunatics, Environment, Hawkwind, Hippie, Michael Dog, Peace, Solfest 2009, The Big Green Gathering, The Charlatans, The Orb, You Can't Kill The Spirit, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide, alternative lifestyles, anti-consumerism, art, cabaret, counterculture, experimental film, festivals, free festivals, gatherings, green politics, law, live performance, music, police, psychedelic, the environment . Tags: alternative lifestyles, anti-consumerism, Anti-Materialism, art, cabaret, Chill-Out, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, Environment, experimental music, festivals, film, free festivals, Freedom, gatherings, green politics, Hawkwind, Hippie, jazz, law, live performance, Megadog, Michael Dog, music, Peace, police, psychedelic, Solfest 2009, The Big Green Gathering, The Charlatans, the environment, The Orb, You Can't Kill The Spirit, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide . Author: born2rant . Comments: 5 Comments
Hello Good people who read this blog I am writing about another random thing.
We all know about the media hypochondria, there was the “Millenium Bug” in 1999 where all our computers and civilisation as we know it was meant to be destroyed by a computer virus.They even had some kind of drama on mainstream TV [...]
June 15, 2009
Categories: Avian Flu, Doctor Who, Gong, Hippie, Hypochondria, Live at Pompeii, London, Media, Millenium Bug, Sci-fi, Silurians, The Crazies, fear of foreign things, media hypochondria, pink floyd, swine flu . Tags: Avian Flu, Doctor Who, fear of foreign things, Gong, Hippie, Hypochondria, Journalism, Live at Pompeii, London, Media, media hypochondria, Millenium Bug, pink floyd, Satan Cowell, Sci-fi, Silurians, swine flu . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments
Hello Good People who read this blog…
(I have just realised that I’ve been taken off the Google search engine..a bit weird…anyone know why?)
I thought I’d post a quickie about the police assault on Ian Tomlinson, who died as a result.
Even though now I know for sure that my emails are copied and I could be [...]
April 12, 2009
Categories: BBC, Bullshit Excuses, Disarming Britain, Freedom, Freedom to protest, G20, Hippie, Jimi Hendrix, London, News, Peace, Political Intelligence, Protest, Terrorist Policemen, counterculture, free speech, intimidation, journalists, music, police, police state, politics, propaganda, scared, society . Tags: BBC, Bullshit Excuses, Disarming Britain, free speech, Freedom to protest, G20, Hippie, intimidation, Jimi Hendrix, journalists, London, music, News, Peace, police, police state, Political Intelligence, politics, propaganda, Protest, scared, society, Terrorist Policemen . Author: born2rant . Comments: 4 Comments
Hello Good People who read this blog
I make no apologies for this entry being political. This is THE most important time to think about politics.
I went on the Put People First G20 March on Saturday.
I had such a great time. I joined the Oxfam group rather than march alone. I have done quite a lot [...]
March 30, 2009
Categories: 1969, Crosby Stills and Nash, Environment, Freedom, G20, Greed, Hippie, London, March 28th, Media, News, Peace, Political Intelligence, Protest, Put People First, TV, Woodstock, collaboration, counterculture, green politics, music, politics, society . Tags: 1969, collaboration, counterculture, Crosby Stills and Nash, Environment, Freedom, G20, Greed, green politics, Hippie, London, March 28th, Media, music, News, Peace, Political Intelligence, politics, Protest, Put People First, society, TV, Woodstock . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments
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 of climate [...]
March 28, 2009
Categories: Environment, Freedom, Hippie, Inequalities, Jimi Hendrix, London, Media, News, Poverty, Protest, Put People First, The Credit Crunch, Woodstock, You Can't Kill The Spirit, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide, counterculture, democracy, gatherings, music, police, politics, society . Tags: alternative lifestyles, anti-consumerism, Anti-Materialism, Environment, Freedom, G20 Protest, Hendrix, Hippie, music, Peace, Peaceful protest, politics, Protest March, Put People First, sixties London, society, steve hillage, Woodstock . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments
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
Categories: 1979, 2009 year of spiritual psychedelia revival, 60s, 70s, Alternative London, Anti-Materialism, BBC News, Born To Go (Hitchin), CHANGE, Coming full circle, Creative Lunatics, Dave Brock, Dave Russell, Fat Freddy's Cat, Freedom to protest, Gong, Hawkwind, Hippie, Ladbroke Grove, Led Zep T-shirt, Lemmy, Matthew Wright, Media, Michael Moorcock, Mick Slattery, Mirror System, Nik Turner, Notting Hill, Nukli, Peace, Peyote Guru, Plane Stupid, Portobello road, Psychedelic Warlords, Rainbow Dome Musick, Rizzla Teeth, Shom, Solfest 2009, Space Ritual, Space is Deep, Terry Ollis, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide, alternative lifestyles, anti-consumerism, aviation pollution, counterculture, direct action, experimental music, gatherings, green, green politics, hope, miquette giraudy, music, police state, politics, rock guitar riffs, spiritual music, steve hillage, strobes, the environment, the perils of dope cake . Tags: 1979, 2009 year of spiritual psychedelia revival, 60s, 70s, alternative lifestyles, Alternative London, anti-consumerism, Anti-Materialism, aviation pollution, BBC News, Born To Go (Hitchin), CHANGE, Coming full circle, counterculture, Creative Lunatics, Dave Brock, Dave Russell, direct action, experimental music, Fat Freddy's Cat, Freedom to protest, gatherings, Gong, green, green politics, Hawkwind, Hippie, hope, Ladbroke Grove, Led Zep T-shirt, Lemmy, Matthew Wright, Media, Michael Moorcock, Mick Slattery, miquette giraudy, Mirror System, music, Nik Turner, Notting Hill, Nukli, Peace, Peyote Guru, Plane Stupid, police state, politics, Portobello road, Psychedelic Warlords, Rainbow Dome Musick, Rizzla Teeth, rock guitar riffs, Shom, Solfest 2009, Space is Deep, Space Ritual, spiritual music, steve hillage, strobes, Terry Ollis, the environment, the perils of dope cake, Your essential entertainment & lifestyle guide . Author: born2rant . Comments: 2 Comments