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

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 [...]

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 a thoroughly [...]

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 have to say that I wasn’t in [...]

Steve Hillage always looking to the future: Part one from Hyde Park to Solfest

Steve Hillage always looking to the future: Part one from Hyde Park to Solfest

Hello Good people who read this blog…
This week I thought I’d write a bit about Steve Hillage. It’s very difficult if not impossible to write about Steve Hillage without referring to my life and that of others in relation [...]

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 nights run [...]

Steve Hillage , Solfest 2007 and revivals

Is there a revival going on?
When I was at Solfest this year ( the one in Cumbria not in the US ) in the chill out tent there were some fantastic psychedelic, ambient and yes, trance live performances from Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy, Eat Static, various combinations of Ozric Tentacle members ( Nodens Ictus) and [...]

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 barn with [...]

What happens when a good idea degrades into chaos and insanity(Anti-Media stories part 5)

What happens when a good idea degrades into chaos and insanity
Terrorism , paranoia and police state!
I have been quite reticent to write some of the items in the next few stories.
Firstly because I want to protect my old acquaintances and I worry that if MI5 or the FBI or Interpol or someone reads this that [...]