Is Everything OK?

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 [...]

Open Mic Songwriting Communities

Hello Good People who read this blog….
Here’s me sounding terribly posh with an Ethnomusicology documentary on how acoustic/folk clubs support and help develop new songs and performance. Sometimes, like other academic research, I might be stating the bloody obvious, or putting long words to simple ideas, but I hope you enjoy it anyway.
Part one
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…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.

AWOL

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 [...]

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 [...]

Guilfest 2009 delayed review of a mishmash festival

Entering into the main festival site was always a bit like going into a strange concentration camp with no human rights or freedoms but with lots of good music and where you could still smoke at a live gig.

I am on a lonely road and I am travelling, travelling, travelling…

Hello Good People who read this blog in my absence…
(This blog entry was written after listening to hours of Joni Mitchell on my travels…)
I thought of you all on Solstice morning . The light was shining through the curtains of my guest room not long past 4 a.m. , unable to sleep I looked out [...]

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 [...]

The Police harasses some terribly nice middle-class white English people in possession of terrorist crayons.

Hello Good People who read this blog ( this is a revised version of earlier entries. I do this sometimes when I think of extra things…sorry if it is irritating)
To begin some more meditative music to generate peace in the world

I forgot how completely amazing this piece of music was until  I just listened to [...]