(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 [...]

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 [...]

Who killed the hippies?

Footage of a clamp-down on freedom, peace and anti-materialism
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Anti-media, aliens, hippies and the 80s subculture in North London(Anti-Media Stories part 1).

“Anti-Media”= a very small bunch of radical loonies including me. We need them now!
Names of some of my Anti-Media associates have been changed to protect them.
How I was recruited …. Back in the early eighties……
The Anti-Media people had seen my alien act at “The Chainsaw Party” a crazy spoof heavy metal gig we put [...]