Too busy living to blog or watch TV, plus a teeny bit about Solfest 2010

Hello Good People who evidently still read this blog… I keep trying to give up this blog for good but it’s up there in cyberspace without me, just like the millions of  photographs of teenagers on Facebook,  who may at some time, rue the day they allowed photos of, and  information about themselves, to be [...]

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.

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 [...]

Steve Hillage Part 3 :Gone to Heaven and Found System 7

Steve Hillage Part 3 :Gone to Heaven and Found System 7 (something old , something new, something borrowed,something Green) Hello Good People who read this blog! (sorry about typos I am still editing this!) Apologies for the delay since my last entry. Yesterday… I went to Heaven last night and saw System 7. Preamble…. I [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]