Steve Hillage and Gong at The Forum (27th November 2009)-A Review

Hello Good People who read this blog I am recovering from my evening out at the Forum last night in Kentish Town ( in London for anyone who might be reading this in Estonia) to see Steve Hillage and Gong. Our little troupe of Hillage/Gong fans started our  journey to the gig after lots of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

(Episode Three) Notting Hill and the Arts 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell – Jazz, Psychedelic Rock Bands, Poetry, Frestonia, Release and Pete Brown’s Battered Ornaments

Carlyle Reedy (Episode Three) Notting Hill and the Arts 1967-1972: an interview with Dave Russell – Jazz, Psychedelic Rock Bands, Poetry, Frestonia, Release and Pete Brown’s Battered Ornaments. Hello Good People who read and contribute to this blog! Thanks for waiting, there have been technical problems galore which after complaining to TalkTalk and reformatting the [...]

(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 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 [...]

Gong Live Now and Then

Hello good people My blog was hacked into earlier this week which of course can make you a bit paranoid also very strange behaviour on my computer so I am offline a lot more!!!!! than usual in case anyone’s trying to contact me. I thought I’d post a video of Gong who were had a [...]