festone.htm: George's unofficial Festival Eye / Stonehenge webpage


    Festival Eye 2001 website is at: www.festivaleye.com .
    email: [email protected]

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    http://groups.yahoo.com/festivaleye

    Festival Eye 2000 website was at:
    www.uknighttimeonline.com/festivaleye

    Festival Eye 1999 website was at:
    http://www.prowse.demon.co.uk/festeye/

    see Stonehenge Campaign Datelist for festi dates

    This webpage festone.htm contents: top | intro | FE2003: my stuff | FE2002: my stuff | FE2001 : george's writings | FE2000: my stuff | FE1999: my stuff | FE99 notes | errors | dates | Letter From Karelia |       FE98 notes, apologies, contacts | Letter from Karelia + Stonehenge Article | Stonehenge Walks by Jes | colour mix |
  • 2003
  • 15 June 2001 : Festival Eye 2001 is printed, I got a copy a few hours ago - it has loads and loads of dates, and several great poems, letters and pictures. Unfortunately they lost my writings about Part Time Grown Ups, Stonehenge, and Rainbow Circle (see below ).
    this webpage is http://www.geocities.com/dicegeorge/festone.htm
    email andy: [email protected]
    and/or me: [email protected]

    Festival Eye
    BCM 2002
    London WC1N 3XX 

    [lots more links at www.dicenews.com ]


    Festival Eye 2003


    === Spider Obituary ==
    Spider of Circus Normal died before Beltane 2003.
    I was smiling at his funeral cos I'd last seen my friends there at Sunny's funeral who'd died too young too fast, had half a life, whereas Spider had a full life of sex drugs rock and roll, great South London parties with Back To the Planet, the Tofus, 2000DS, LSD etcetera:
    ~ Thanks geezer!
    ~ [email protected]
    ~ Letter from Karelia 19may2003 ~
    Dave said he was tired of playing second fiddle to the Space Goats
    but I say second fiddle is so much harder than first:
    so many guitarists play their songs but can't jam with others,
    respect to the second fiddles!
    [dicegeorge.com]

    plus Jeremy Sandford Obituary



    Festival Eye 2002

    From: "[email protected]" 
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: karelia letter
    Date: 20 2003 May 20 21:11
    
    ========================================
    ==== rhymes from karelia 2002/03/13 ====
    ==
    Last December my bus handle backfired -
    My bloodied teeth were two or three -
    I feared them smashed - cold and tired -
    Yes I'm still my own worst enemy!
    ==
    Thursday kangarooed it to Stonehenge,
    music, campfire but warm bed to crash.
    I overslept Friday Sunrise Stonehenge
    where they scattered Spiral Sunny's ash.
    ==
    This summer, Stonehenge, contradictory dreams
    Free open access, no nutters with chisels!
    Rock bands and druids and chess cricket teams,
    no riots, no litter, no ravers with whistles.
    ==
    We could self police for up to twelve hours
    shamanic dancing, drugs beer and drums,
    freedom and trust from the English powers,
    love and respect and sleeping kids mums.
    ==
    == dicegeorge.com == 07970-378-572 ==
    =====================================
    
    


    Festival Eye 2001 - george's writings which were accidentally not printed:

    ==== Letter From Karelia - 4 March 2001 ===

    'Part Time Grown-ups' means being childlike and playful but, when troubles arise, taking responsible actions, speaking out.

    An 'inner adult' watching from a corner of the brain lest 'childlike' becomes 'childish'. At Big Green 2000 I was furiously pedaling a trike with my lightshow for Nik Turner band @ Rinky Dink Sunday night when pushchair - swerve and stop -

    'YOU SILLY HIPPY'

    I did shout out once or twice last summer - and you should too if you notice something too dangerous- nobody's perfect (though some think they are!)

    And I've an inner monster - when I'm angry at someone is it at them or at a projection of my fears (laying my trips on them?)

    Its when we deny and suppress our inner dog that it can wreak terrible damage on us through the subconscious. Remember 'Silver Chair' by CS Lewis

    Festivals are, since time immemorial, a vital time of changing clothes, a safety valve from conformist wage slavery, changing times of drinks and drugs; and the insights we get in our altered states of mind should make us more aware, more empathic, less robotic than the Thatcheroid straights.

    www.dicegeorge.com 07970-378572


    === Stonehenge Summer Solstice ===

    June 2000 was 99% great - we celebrated Solstice at Stonehenge and then Bowie sang Starman at Glastonbury.

    This June, 200, if ten thousand people come and go in peace but a hundred try a three-day sit-in and get evicted by riot police then that's what they'd show on telly and English Heriticage would say that they'd trusted us but we'd betrayed them and ban us for another fifteen years giving tickets only to tame druids.

    I hope not.

    [george] www.dicenews.com/stonehenge


    Rainbow Circle Summer Camp August 2000+2001

    In a brave and foolish concensus Rainbow Circle this summer will be Magic Hat entirely - no trading except at Saturday markets. Theoretically with no divides everyone will contribute more (the more you give the more you get)

    Last summer, 2000, I bought a ticket and loved the the family and food and workshops and late night music jamming in the kitchen.

    What pisses me off about Rainbow Circle is that its so easy to criticise them because they aim so high.

    [george] [www.dicenews.com]


    == Last of the Hippies ==

    In this book CJ Stone slags off his earlier acid eating self and everyone he meets, saying nothing positive about hippydom.

    Des's drunken words shouldn't have been recorded- (ref: my F.E.1994 obituary).

    CJ says he had a contract and had spent the advance so he had to write this book.

    He dedicates this book to John Pendragon.

    Please don't let him write a cynical book like this about our John.

    [george] [www.dicenews.com]


    ==== music review====

    Tribal Voices

    Tribal Voices is a collective of over 100 acoustic musicians, formed around the campfires of eco protest sites like Twyford Down and Newbury, and at traditional seasonal gatherings.

    We have four cassettes for sale, and are recording more

    www.geocities.com/tribalvoices




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    Festival Eye 2000 - george's input


    November 2000 : The new 2001 Festival Eye website is at www.festivaleye.com

    In Festival Eye 2000, page 37, my paragraph reviewing the Rainbow Circle Beltane Camp 1999 was stuck on the end of Margaret Greenfield's review of the Beltane Camp 2000.

    Luke wants everyone to know that he took the photos on pages 18 and 48 of FE2000 - http://www.geocities.com/ocknroll/

    Sorry to Ruth, on Festival Eye 1999 page 35 I added two paragraphs to conclude her Diggers review.

    January2000: This here webpage festone.htm is my Festival Eye webpage.
    I'm George, I was Picture Editor in 1989 and 1999, and I've writ stuff in the mag for years and years.
    I've phoned Andy, he said he's planning Festival Eye 2000 magazine, he's moving house and may reply to emails in a few weeks. He's still not sure why several 1999 magazine pictures were spoilt, and why the cover was printed so dark
    (see my notes further down this webpage ).
    ~ Letter From Karelia ~ 19april2000 ~

    Dear Festivaleyers,
    I'm a pessimist: so when horrid things happen to me like summer '98 or water leak '99 I expect the worst and can be heartened and relieved if things aint quite that bad; whereas logical optimists suffer grief and disappointment every day from human mistakes, accidents, physics, over-crowding, betrayals and nonsense.

    Early Elvis said: "Jesus, he was perfect and people criticised him", and later John Lennon said: "Elvis died when he joined the army", (but I refuse to remember the name of his killer).

    Brian May said that unlike a football match, at a rock concert everybody's on the same side!

    Two tribes of monkeys: one ate mushrooms, one didn't. Which evolved to us lot?

    What came first, the festival or Stonehenge?

    Spike computer clock drum machines- rhythm is the heartbeat of music.

    In 'Dragon Singer' by Anne Mcaffery, when asked what facet of music appeals to her most Menolly says: "Why, playing like this, in a group ... It's so beautiful. It's such a challenge, to hear the interweaving harmonies and the melody line changing from instrument to instrument. I felt as if I ... was flying on a dragon!"

    ~ dicegeorgelightshow 07970378572 www.dicenews.com/fe ~

    ===== BOOK REVIEW =====
    The Penguin Book of 20th Century Protest.

    I ignored History at school. Here's 2-ish pages each from 170-ish writers: socialism, imperialism, black folk, sufragettes, the workhouse, landlords, tyranny, the Titanic, Gallipoli, Ireland -

    I'm up to 1919.

    Looking ahead: Marie Stopes, Gandhi, Lenin, Tagore, Hitler, Garvey, Bevan, Selassie, Churchill, Gide, Trotsky, Orwell, Einstein, Bohr, Maugham, Huddlestone, Guevara, Mandela, X, Ho Chi Minh, Arlott, Greer, Schumaker, Thatcher, Scargill, Reagan, McLibel, Charter88, Howe, Saro-Wiwa, Tatchell, Foot, Merrick, Benn, Spencer, Monbiot, Earth First ... and loadsa names I dont recognise,

    Gosh I'm ignorant - Belgrano!

    [diceGeorge].

    == Rainbow Circle Beltane Camp 1999 ==

    Based on the "Magic Hat" - with no fixed prices or punter/sitecrew divisions - but everyone contributing freely - this worked! Tipi Jean led a Navajo-style "Law Circle" of representative opposites such as Warriors who'd fight to the death, and Peace Makers who'd never kill, Shamen, mothers... Me, I was a 'Contrary' - rebellious youth! I broke the rule of not playing radios when asked not to - I was drunk and emotional - sorry!

    [dice]george.

    == The Story of Rubbish == Mother Earth, having been raped by her offspring, Humanity, has given birth to a monster. Rubbish, also called Garbage. Denied and reviled by his father Rubbish has grown enormous and become demented. His mother can no longer contain him and he is choking her to death. You, Humanity, stop violating your mother, the Earth. Recognise Rubbish for what he is, your son and also your brother, born both from the great Mother's flesh. Take hold of him, embrace him, and learn to love him; never call him vile disgusting and dangerous, We have brought him here into being; Now let us help him find his rightful place.
    Love and Respect.
    (Check out the black bin liners of the soul)
    == Stonehenge Solstice June 1999 == We were in the Stones drumming and dancing. The police started moving in, trying to crush people. We put the kids in the middle and sat down and linked arms - nobody was doing any damage, everybody was hugging each other, how much more fluffy can you get? You dont apply for tickets to church. There were police there with tears in their eyes - they felt the energy of the place

    by Jo Ashton Court

    ==== John Pendragon letter ====

    I sent a email about my late father John Pendragon back in July 1999. My brother Paul and I went to Wandsworth to see dad, and we enjoyed the afternoon talking to him. Our father's love of music has definitely passed on to us, we have inherited his celtic heritage. I would dearly like more information about my dad.
    Best Wishes
    Maria Louise Organ
    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    www.geocities.com/tribalvoices/john.htm

    andy: please review the dice george internet single Repetitive Squeaks www.geocities.com/dicegeorge/rsqueaks.htm



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    Festival Eye 1999



    • (May 1999) Festival Eye magazine has been printed
      see main site for details of how to get yours.
    • 7june1999: I've got the printed magazines, it's 99% good, but there are several errors, see below .
    • 22 May 1999: Festival Eye magazine is being printed. see main site for details of how to get more,
    • I've got a phone: 07970-378572 (dicegeorge)
    • I'm picture editor of Festival Eye, 1998 and now 1999, Photoshop, QXP, Netscape, Notepad etc
    • I'm looking for new projects, where can I park, is there web access?
    • Festival Eye website url is now http://www.festivaleye.com
    • .. which should redirect you to http://www.prowse.demon.co.uk/festeye/fe_index.htm
    • email festival eye at [email protected]
    • see http://www.phreak.co.uk/stonehenge/psb/george.htm for my whereabouts, poems, datelist, Stonehengey stuff, and for loads of weblinks - to guilfin, schnews, etc
    • email: [email protected]
    • check out Tribal Voices at www.geocities.com/tribalvoices/tvoices.htm
  • Space Goats CD SG23 is out now!

    Festival Eye 1999: Errors, Corrections and Clarifications


    FE99.1 Front Cover too much black ink
    FE99.2 Sacred Circle Tapestry should be coloured
    FE99.2 horizantal white streaks -
    FE99.3 Air Photo is by [MP] not by [DW]
    FE99.8 photo is distorted
    fe99.11 drawing repeated from 1997?
    fe99.12 Shane's background photo is too light at 10% shade in Quark
    FE99.17 repeated portrair from page 2
    FE99.19 Music in the Sun artwork mangled by Quark (see page 20: 23-25 July Music ibn the Sun Sheffield advert
    FE99.20 Tiny Tea artwork has two borders [g]
    FE99.20 Excrutiating pun in headline [AS]
    FE99.25 Pontardawe Festival artwork mangled by Quark.
    FE99.25 August 7-11 dates missing, see below
    FE99.26 www.festivaleye.com artwork mangled by quark
    FE99.28 Tribal Gathering artwork mangled by quark
    FE99.31 Tribe of Doris justification bad [g]
    FE99.31 Off The Tracks artwork poor quality (Quark)
    FE99.35 delete "gross" insert "monstrous" [g]
    FE99.36 who took the photo? and some food is better cooked.
    FE99.38 poor artwork by Quark
    FE99.38 throughout Pok's stuff, replace "medicine" by "medicene"
    FE99.40 OnlyTime artwork mangled by Quark - see http://www.phreak.co.uk/stonehenge/psb/onlytime.htm for the original artwork of my song,
    FE99.41 Photo pixelated by Quark, some names missing
    FE99.41 annoying hyphenation in songs [g]
    FE99.43 Gong artwork mangled by Quark
    FE99.47 bottom right "1999 FFEESSTTIIVVAALL EEYYEE 1999 " [g]
    FE99.49 background artwork too light [g]
    FE99.44 DW phone number overwritten by Planet Gaia advert [g]
    FE99.51 Guildford Live 99 (23-25 July) text fades out (but dates is visible, and details are on page page 20 OK (Film Maker's fault, and Guildford's for sending their advert in late, and out fault for not treble chaecking)
    FE99.51 Freedom Book Company should be in colour Film maker's fault, and their fault for sending their EPS ZIP very late
    FE99.52 Back Cover too dark - printers' fault

    There were several errors in Festival Eye,, there was an impossible amount to do in the last few days, and Andy was away putting up marquees. Ultimately the responsibilty is Andy's for not making the time to copycheck, but then again the responsibilty for the whole magazine is Andy's if he hadnt spent most of last year working on the mag then it wouldn't exist, it's 99% ok, two and two thirds cheers for Andy...

    I dont do it for the money - I spent over 300 hours on it, for me it's an art project.
    I was picture editor. In the last night I laid out far too many pages,
    If I'd spent more time checking then there may have been one less mistake, but the magazine wouldn't have been so good artistickily.
    where possible i have indicated the reason/responsibility for the errors. Page 44, overlapping DW's number and Planet Gaia is almost certainly my fault, but it could be quark's fault. Until I look at it on the Mac I wont be 100% sure - I'm in my bus in Somerset, the Mac's in Hereford.

    That the covers' colour is too dark could be a fault of the film maker, or the fault of the printers or of me: surely the printers could have lessened the amount of black. But maybe they thought that's how we'd wanted it. But Andy should have been there to see the first pressing. I think the proof film maker's proof looked a lot better, but it's not here for me to check up.

    The loss of some colours on pages 2 and 51 is almost certainly the Leominster film maker's fault,
    What is annoying is that the same film maker and printer were used last year, and these things didnt happen.

    page 25 dates missing is mine and andy's fault for not treble checking it, (unless the printed proof copy shows it OK, in which case it'd be the film maker's fault.
    was it ok on the printed proof?
    See, below for the missing dates
    Boring.
    However, over 99% of the mag was OK - two and two-thirds cheers for andy!

    Here are the dates which should have been on page 25 of Festival Eye 1999:

    • 1999.08.07 Sat
    • 1999.08.07-14 Moonshadow Eclipse Family Camp Green Gathering, Stalls, Music; Penrith; 0181 941 6277
    • 1999.08.07-14 Morland Folk Dance Week Cumbria; 01931 714338
    • 1999.08.07-14 Pagan Eclipse Camp Cornwall; 01508 558180
    • 1999.08.07-14 The Cornish Eclipse Stone Festival Higher Draynes, St Neot Cornwall; Arts, crafts, music, theatre, poetry. John Martyn etc. New Megalith raising ceremony on St Michael leyline. £60. 01579 321263 / 01208 76506
    • 1999.08.07-15 The Kyles Of Bute Festival Feis 99 Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland; 01700 811695
    • 1999.08.07-8 International Festival Crawley, West Sussex; 01293 553636
    • 1999.08.08 Broxbourne Music Festival Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire; 01992 441946
    • 1999.08.08 Stanley Blues Festival Durham; 01207 218431 (TBC)
    • 1999.08.08 Sun
    • 1999.08.08-09 Festival of LIght and Water Lancashire; 01524 582828 (TBC)
    • 1999.08.09 Mon
    • 1999.08.09-14 Folkworks Adult/ Youth Summer Durham; 0191 222 1717
    • 1999.08.09-15 Brighton Pride 99 Preston Park, Brighton; 0906 3667700
    • 1999.08.10 Tue
    • 1999.08.11 Wed
    • 1999.08.11 Total Solar Eclipse in Cornwall and SW. Devon @ 11:11am
    • 1999.08.11 Tribal gathering Men-an-Toll, Cornwall
    • 1999.08.11 World Earth Healing Day you are invited to join thousands of people in two simultaneous world-wide link-ups. The first will take place at 10am GMT(11am in the UK), during a total Solar Eclipse. The second will take place at 7.20pm GMT (8.20pm in the UK). Each link-up will last for at least 20minutes. During this time you can meditate, pray, visualise, dance, sing, or perform a symbolic act. Whatever you do, dedicate your intention to the expansion of love and awareness on the Planet, and as you contemplate your connection with all things, sense the ripples of what you do spreading outwards to influence all. For leaflets and further information, send a large SAE to: WEHD 4 Vyner Court Rossington St London E5 8SF 0181 806 3828
      E-mail: [email protected]
    • 1999.08.11 11-8-99 Total Solar Eclipse, total in Cornwall only in UK.
    • 1999.08.11-12 Wolverhampton Town Show West park, Wolverhampton
    • 1999.08.11-13 Tipi Living Warrior Lodge Men only sweat lodge; Scotland; 01339 742295
    • 1999.08.11-15 Malborough Festival Kingsbridge, South Devon; 01548 562088
    • 1999.08.11-26 European Rainbow Gathering Hungary. From eclipse to full moon. Info IRC to RIC, Brandaris 321, 1503 CE Zaandam, Holland
    • 1999.08.12 Thu

    Festival Eye 1999 page 40

    ~~~ letter from karelia bus NFA~~~

    FE98 picture editing was sabotaged (sssorry for mistokes and om-misssions) and I missed most summer '98 festis due to D.C.3024 Lovell: I'm making an official complaint against the Police for his shoddy work not investigating NN's insults to us lot.

    It could've been worse.- consider random deaths, and the brainwashed brutalised millions who've never tasted freedom and responsibility...

    In sleepless jail I read my Oxford Dictionary from A to B.

    In housebound Gosport bail I learned trombone, studied Law, lit a band, internetted Tribal Voices music and poetry (we are a Strange Family, the same different people, stronger than before...)

    And Nat Gonella's funeral ~ (the British Louis Armstrong).

    Tip for males: if a woman's staying the night, but sex is inappropriate, but you can't sleep, feeling horny; then sneak away and wank ~ darwinisticky ejaculation makes the male mammal sleepy.

    Stick that up your internet search engines you twazzock!

    And if on your birthday no-one says "Happy Birthday" then you don't age ~ (the 'Peter Pan Principle' (but the twins sussed mine by intuition.))

    '98's writers were John Steinbeck, John Holt, Julie Burchill, Anne McCaffery. Best ever remains Irene Clairemont de Castilejo's "Knowing Woman" from the Rainbow Centre Library: on page 2 she writes: "I have never forgotten the smile of a bus conductor as I alighted from a bus at the age of twenty. It was a smile shared. We never saw one another again, nor needed to, but for a few seconds we really met. I have written a little poem about it..."

    My 1999 began 90% good, fluting in the pub with Pew, FE99 scanning and picture editing, painting the bus, boisterous site family, windmill rescued off of Wandsworth Roundhouse generating, and my lightshow at Bristol with Theo, Shannon, SpaceGoats, etc

    Thanks to all who stood up for truth, honour and love.

    Smile;-} www.dicegeorge.com
    [email protected]
    BCM 2002, London WC1N 3XX
    DICENEWS 07970 378 572

    P.S. I miss living with the good honest drugs dealers of South London and/or the integrated coloured Coventry Ska.

    P.P.S Please someone get my song (The Only Time I Lied..) to Number One and send me the songwriting dosh!
    It's not 100% true, it's a mood poem, attitudinisticky.

    Also on page 40 was the music and words for my song:
    The Only Time I Lied (Was When I Said I Didnt Love You Any More)

    Festival Eye 1998

    Festival Eye logo Unfortunately I couldn't get to Hereford in 1998 to help with the final week of the magazine production, I wanted to resize the photos and tweak them in photoshop, hence some are blurred, some are repeated, and some are missing - because of someone spreading false rumours.

    dicemix photoshop wow click here for compressed 100k version of the colour mix I did for the 1998 inside back cover..

    apologies to Ingrid, Vicki, and the Dongas Band for missing out their photos, to Richie Bond for missing out his artwork, to Tribal Voices for missing out all their details, to EITHINOG for missing their details, to Andy and everyone for not being there - I gave him what help I could over the phone but it wasn't enough .. this was to have been my CV for 1998...

    • here's some of 1998's missing contacts:
    • ****** EITHINOG against 'development' / trashing of greenfield site, c/o 376 Stryd Fawr, Bangor 01248-351541 SEFYLLA YN Y GWERSYLL mae'r protestwyr wedi paratoi i amddiffyn y safle yn gynnwys drwy ddefnyddio 'lock-ons' pan mae'r beilaid yn symud i mewn. mae'r heddlu wedi mynd i mewn i'r safle i wneud arestio ddwywaith, gwaharddwd nhw rhag dychwelyd. mae'r amddiffyniadau yn dda, on mae angen bobl heb oedi - ddoe! $$$welsh!
    • ******* RINKY DINK pedal power. Baka Beyond, Shak Shak address here and pictures several exist fe98-drawings rinkyPedalPower.tif and Rinky-diagram.tif - good background???
    • ******* ROAD ALERT!, PO Box 5544, Newbury, Berks. RG14 5FB. Tel 01635 521 770 (now info line only). Nationwide road protest networking. Newsletters, regular bulletins; donation + sae. Archive Website
    • SPACE GOATS (eco-bardic tribadelics) new CD release: the Space Goats' 5th album and the first to find its way onto CD. It's called "Tribadelica 1992-1998" and features new edits and mixes of their first 4 albums - "Inamorata and Other Tales", "13 Moons In Motion" and the as yet unreleased "Magpie Glister" and "Goatissimus Goes Forth", as well as their very latest studio recordings. The CD should be in the shops by June, whilst the tape version is available now. You can order all Space Goats albums from Mandala Records, PO Box 344, London SE19 1EQ. Tel/Fax: 0181 766 7009 email: [email protected]
    • SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL, 11-15 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QL. Tel 0171 242 1441. Campaigns for native peoples' rights. Website
    • TRIBAL VOICES 'Tribal Voices' is a collective of around 120 acoustic musicians whose music promotes environmental and social issues. Tribal Voices musicians will be performing at festivals throughout the Summer, including Glastonbury Festival on the 26th - 28th June where there will be a Tribal Voices stage, workshops, food, craft stalls, slide shows, displays, etc. They will also be appearing at the Big Green Gathering 29th July - 2nd August and the Buddahfield festival 15th - 19th July. The Tribal Voices Collective is also involved in making a film, to include music, narrative, interviews and historic documentary footage. They want to collect some action footage of the protest camps of the last 5 years to help tell the whole story - if you know of anyone with suitable footage please contact Tribal Voices on 0181 761 7826.= == Check out the Tribal Voices Website: http://www.geocities.com/tribalvoices/
      Email [email protected] ~~~

      There are presently two compilation tapes featuring Tribal Voices musicians.
      Tribal Voices Tapes 1 + 2 are available ~~~ Tapes 3+4 (The Gathering) are being released at Glastonbury Festival and will be available after the festival by post see TV website for details
      ~~ Tapes can be ordered from Tribal Voices, 73 Brailsford Rd, Brixton, London SW2 2TB
      or bought from many of the musicians in Tribal Voices
    Letter from Karelia to Festival Eye 1998

    I promise to tell the blag, the whole blag, and nothing but the blag - oh I forgot...

    How many Freemasons does it take to change a lightbulb? (I don't know - it's a secret!)

    Eavis didn't send me a ticket to play main stage '97 so I didn't go - his loss - in another reality I'd have got to Stonehenge Free Festival in '85 with my bus, lightshow and flute and been a popstar -

    Well, '97 I got my bus out of London, (clocked 165 miles in 12 months) to conk out in Somerset (again), did no lightshows but some jams with ace guitarists at BGG, Frome and DWB, saw Ozrics but couldn't hear the flute (again),

    Then at Stonehenge autumn equinox Jez said his band were going to Tribal Voices 3 camp - "I'm in your band aren't I?" "Yes" he said - so I was.

    Great winter at Dead Woman's Bottom anti-quarry protest camp, New Year's quite pissed woffled blurbage into my wind-powered 286PC by candlelight then hitched to Glasto and stuck it up the Web!

    Then 20 January surprise eviction, Under Sheriff Channer said because the land was compulsorily purchased They didn't need legal papers or summonses, "section 13", I was taken of site, the windmill was sawn off my bus and crashed onto the concrete, my bus was dangerously towed away (with the fire burning and a pallet on the roof) by MJ autos of Taunton, then They destroyed our possessions, and bulldozed two hedges where They could have left one (so if it's a hot summer the fields won't turn to dust and blow away). Somerset's Traveller Liaison Officer said we were protesters so it wasn't his business. Tim Carroll was responsible - he should resign 01823-355455.

    We bump-started the bus down a track where it's now.

    Got a leaflet and phoned and they said "yes" so we took my lightshow to Bath West Country Activists' meet, flashed psychedelic with Pok Spacegoat's Hendrix (and I'm the bulldozer pixie on their CD).

    Spring Equinox in Stonehenge, played tinwhistle with a random drummer for a minute or two - ah..

    Then here to the Eye computers: ShakShak RinkyDink tape looping ("If we had no bullets, we'd all be bullet-proof, if we all wore silk there would be no war"), while the Mac scans I'm typing on this PC, PhotoShop, wow! (the '96 photos weren't my scans)

    Oh, and February a slogan bubbled up out of my alleged brane, it's not true, but it'd make a cheesy Country and Western hit, it's all in the title- "The only time I lied (was when I said I didn't love you any more)" I told it to B.B. James once and he's still 'singing' it, but how to copyright it?

    I ain't got a taperecorder or mains, and I'm not a singer, so here it is, someone out there get it to number one and email me the songwriting dosh!

    [email protected] www.phreak.co.uk/stonehenge/psb/george.htm

    PS I want a trombone

    Festival Eye 1998 submitted but not published

    Stonehenge 1998

    English Heriticage let us through their tunnel to Stonehenge for Spring Equinox non-Sunrise, there's a huge mural of longhaired Britons at a reconstructed Stonehenge III with the lintels going all around - wrong, it was a horse-shoe with an entrance south at Stone 11 - (see my last years page 46); and they're bringing reconstructed roman catapults to Stonehenge - why? and they were displaying 3 posters of Old Sarum saying "2000 year-old iron-age fortress" - "do you think the Romans built it?' I asked them - and Paul tells me they're still selling a photo with Stonehenge inverted left/right and they've failed to close the A344 where it cuts the Stones from the Avenue, and when I went to buy a ticket for Midsummer's Night Dream there were only 200 and they were all sold out.

    [dice] george

    Fe1998 page 11


    Subj: STONEHENGE WALKS
    Date: 05/04/98 15:51:39 GMT
    From: [email protected] (Louisa Kata)
    Reply-to: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Stonehenge people! Open family! the legendary Stonehenge vibration still being zapped up by trusty old souls and new faces 13 years deep into the annual summer solstice pilgrimages and I want to hug you all very much.
    In 1997 I was on the walk from Brighton - just like an extended wonder picnic along ancient tracks every step of the way. Thanks to John, Sav and clan for teleporting huge amounts of tat and Josie for telefonism beyond the call of duty, and to everyone who shared 3 weeks of freedom buzzz. To see the pyramid on the Stonehenge by-way! Cauldron children! Peppermint lightening! Smoking badgers! Check the listing for the 1998 walks - maybe carry on afterwards Snowball towards Stonehenge 2000 (unless you prefer the Millennium dome as party central?!)
    Trade banned - give everything - love out to everywhere.
    Cooly Bruvs!
    Jes xxxxxxx
    P.S.: I got a word given to me by the 14.000 year old Stonehenge carpark totem pole on August 11th 1997. It was PHOALITACAOTE. I'll tell you about it later. Where is Queen Boadicea and the out to lunch bunch?
  • Thanks Andy see you soon, please get me some magazines. JesXXX

    Walks to Stonehenge set off from
    Long Man of Wilmington 23rd May
    Old Steine fountain Brighton 2pm on 28 May
    and from London Battersea Park Peace Pagoda at 2 pm on 1st June -

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