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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s the same old story…stormtroopers in the street (and I don’t mean the Star Wars variety)

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 [...]

Police Force (intimidation of Londoners by the police)

Hello good people who read this blog
First of all you might see I got another comment from Matthew Wright of The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 ( scroll down to recent comments or go to “Freaky coincidence” post June 5th ) .
Thanks a lot Matthew unfortunately I only saw your comment to be moderated after [...]

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 [...]

Who killed the hippies?

Footage of a clamp-down on freedom, peace and anti-materialism
This blog requires some audience participation from you.
If you want to understand some of the things I will be writing about in future posts please watch and compare the following clips. It is a history that needs to be told and has been suppressed.
Footage of Stonehenge Free [...]

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 [...]

There’s a load of crap on the TV again(Anti-Media stories part 4).

anti-media continued….
Some other memories of the Anti-Media films. They took lots of footage at Wapping where there were protests by printers at job losses due to computerisation . I think I may be getting some of my years mixed up…apologies for that ,Wapping was in 1986 but I am talking about involvement with [...]

Modern Life is Rubbish and Harpers and Queen, glossy fashion magazine!(Anti-Media stories part 3)

Now…..Back to the Anti-Media Events
Some further memories of our Anti-Media events at Pentameters.
I remember another film Hogan made which was shown at their events but also at our psychedelic gigs at Club Dog/ Alice in Wonderlands and various venues.
There were 3 bored looking teenage Teddy Boys sitting in a bus shelter. One of the [...]