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Time for another 'Summer of Love'...TWTD on 08:12 - Apr 9 by bluelagos
If only...
You set up a forrest rave and I'll be there Bankster :-)
Has to have been one of the most positive, uplifting and life affirming few days of my life....arriving in a convoy of hundreds of battered (and not so battered) old buses and such was as much of a festival as the event itself!
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
The second summer of love was originally 89 with the sunrise M25 orbital parties and the rise of dance music from Manchester and London clubs.... Labyrinth Dalston was a memory
But that summer of 92 and the West Country free parties with the travellers was just incredible, culminating in castlemorton in your video
We’d been to Lechlade some weeks before which was smaller and incredible; spinal tribe, circus warp sound systems... then news of castlemorton starting coming in... and we jumped in the cars and joined the exodus.... beautiful setting and huge scale - best thing was the DIY (Nottingham sound system) marquee on a little hill, Sunday afternoon, sun, incredible Balearic set... memories
Yes we need some of vibe and feeling of those summers... get people off the social media, the hating, the smart phones, the increasing right wing agenda - get interacting in a field, get some love out there.... one world, one love
Time for another 'Summer of Love'...TWTD on 09:01 - Apr 9 by bluelagos
Ken Clarke calling it outrageous...
Not too dissimilar to half of TWTDs reaction to seeing people sitting down sunbathing in parks this time last year
See similar Clarkesque outrage below!!
I remember the Daily Mail having a field day - making it sound like some dark satanic orgy with animal sacrifice (clearly there really was no animal sacrifice 🤪)
What no one seemed to mention, was that you’d had 40,000 people together, of what could be perceived as ‘fringe of society’ types, in a field, together for 4 days... with it seemed to me.... zero trouble or disorder.... apart from the lack of ‘latrines’... man, that was much less love, peace and harmony
Speaking in a House of Commons debate, the local MP at the time, Michael Spicer, opined, "new age travellers, ravers and drugs racketeers arrived at a strength of two motorised army divisions, complete with several massed bands and, above all, a highly sophisticated command and signals system. However, they failed to bring latrines. The numbers, speed and efficiency with which they arrived–amounting at one time to as many as 30,000 people–combined to terrorise the local community to the extent that some residents had to undergo psychiatric treatment in the days that followed. Such an incident must never happen again, in my constituency or elsewhere.“
Time for another 'Summer of Love'...TWTD on 09:33 - Apr 9 by unstableblue
See similar Clarkesque outrage below!!
I remember the Daily Mail having a field day - making it sound like some dark satanic orgy with animal sacrifice (clearly there really was no animal sacrifice 🤪)
What no one seemed to mention, was that you’d had 40,000 people together, of what could be perceived as ‘fringe of society’ types, in a field, together for 4 days... with it seemed to me.... zero trouble or disorder.... apart from the lack of ‘latrines’... man, that was much less love, peace and harmony
Speaking in a House of Commons debate, the local MP at the time, Michael Spicer, opined, "new age travellers, ravers and drugs racketeers arrived at a strength of two motorised army divisions, complete with several massed bands and, above all, a highly sophisticated command and signals system. However, they failed to bring latrines. The numbers, speed and efficiency with which they arrived–amounting at one time to as many as 30,000 people–combined to terrorise the local community to the extent that some residents had to undergo psychiatric treatment in the days that followed. Such an incident must never happen again, in my constituency or elsewhere.“
"some residents had to undergo psychiatric treatment"
The mind boggles. Remember Bully having a meltdown a few years back when some urban youths set up a rave at a disused mine I think it was, within ear shot of his village.
He was not happy at all. Not sure if it was cos it was illegal, loud or the idea of people having fun that most enraged him.
The second summer of love was originally 89 with the sunrise M25 orbital parties and the rise of dance music from Manchester and London clubs.... Labyrinth Dalston was a memory
But that summer of 92 and the West Country free parties with the travellers was just incredible, culminating in castlemorton in your video
We’d been to Lechlade some weeks before which was smaller and incredible; spinal tribe, circus warp sound systems... then news of castlemorton starting coming in... and we jumped in the cars and joined the exodus.... beautiful setting and huge scale - best thing was the DIY (Nottingham sound system) marquee on a little hill, Sunday afternoon, sun, incredible Balearic set... memories
Yes we need some of vibe and feeling of those summers... get people off the social media, the hating, the smart phones, the increasing right wing agenda - get interacting in a field, get some love out there.... one world, one love
I was there as well - 1989 and 1990 chasing rave venues around the M25! Biology, Sunrise, Helter Skelter, World Dance, Genesis, Labyrinth, Raindance etc and Mangled at the Braintree Barn (RIP Keith) every Friday! What happy, happy, carefree days. By 1992 I'd burned out a bit and moved more indoors to continue my clubbing days!
I was there as well - 1989 and 1990 chasing rave venues around the M25! Biology, Sunrise, Helter Skelter, World Dance, Genesis, Labyrinth, Raindance etc and Mangled at the Braintree Barn (RIP Keith) every Friday! What happy, happy, carefree days. By 1992 I'd burned out a bit and moved more indoors to continue my clubbing days!
I was there as well - 1989 and 1990 chasing rave venues around the M25! Biology, Sunrise, Helter Skelter, World Dance, Genesis, Labyrinth, Raindance etc and Mangled at the Braintree Barn (RIP Keith) every Friday! What happy, happy, carefree days. By 1992 I'd burned out a bit and moved more indoors to continue my clubbing days!
Same here. Then Roast, Desert Storm, Exodus etc. The cool kids definitely went to the Barn, if only for the after parties
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Time for another 'Summer of Love'...TWTD on 11:26 - Apr 9 with 1066 views
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