Monday
14 December 2009

Vote for the Bees!
— by Unknown on Monday, 14 December 2009

Vote for the Bees!
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As you know, when I'm not pondering the heady world of psychedelics and culture, I play in folkedelic band, Telling the Bees. I'm de...
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Monday
30 November 2009

Gong - the verdict
— by Unknown on Monday, 30 November 2009

Gong - the verdict
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Ah, what a gig! Legendary. I'm still bouncing around. It was all a bit of a rush to get there (what kind of gig starts at 7.00pm prompt?...
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Saturday
28 November 2009

Gong
— by Unknown on Saturday, 28 November 2009

Gong
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I've been getting increasingly excited about seeing Steve Hillage reunited with Gong, currently on tour and playing tonight at the O2, O...
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Saturday
21 November 2009

Staffordshire Hoard
— by Unknown on Saturday, 21 November 2009

Staffordshire Hoard
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I was in London yesterday and with an hour to kill, popped into the British Museum to see the Staffordshire Hoard , the stash of Anglo-Saxon...
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Yage Letters
— by Unknown on Saturday, 21 November 2009

Yage Letters
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Last week I finally made time to pop into the Albion Beatnik Bookshop , in Oxford's Jericho district. There's some great stuff in th...
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Friday
20 November 2009

Andy and Cliff
— by Unknown on Friday, 20 November 2009

Andy and Cliff
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As some of you know, aside from Telling the Bees I play pipes with hurdy-gurdy maestro, Cliff Stapleton. Our music is a kind of organic tra...
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Tuesday
17 November 2009

Glastonbury tonight
— by Unknown on Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Glastonbury tonight
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Just about to head off to Glastonbury, where I'm playing tonight at the Assembly Rooms with Telling the Bees. Always a great place to pl...
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Thursday
12 November 2009

Bright Star
— by Unknown on Thursday, 12 November 2009

Bright Star
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Sobbed my way through Jane Campion's latest, Bright Star, about the tragic love affair of John Keats and Fanny Braun. Every bit as brill...
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Horizons
— by Unknown on Thursday, 12 November 2009

Horizons
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Things have been silly busy since I got back from NYC. I've been gigging with Cliff, promoting the new Telling the Bees album, teaching ...
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Saturday
7 November 2009

Making Sense of Magic Mushrooms
— by Unknown on Saturday, 7 November 2009

Making Sense of Magic Mushrooms
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http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifI shall be speaking at the October Gallery on tuesday 24th November, as part of the Ecology, Cosmos and ...
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Monday
14 September 2009

Abbots Bromley
— by Unknown on Monday, 14 September 2009

Abbots Bromley
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Made my annual pilgrimage to see the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. As ever, fortune rewards those prepared to wait all day for the final dance,...
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Horizons Conference, NYC
— by Unknown on Monday, 14 September 2009

Horizons Conference, NYC
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Not long now till I fly to NYC to speak at the Horizons Conference - getting excited now. For those that don't know, here's the blu...
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Friday
21 August 2009

San Francisco Guardian Review
— by Unknown on Friday, 21 August 2009

San Francisco Guardian Review
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This review just in from the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Drugs Issue . Nice. Print this page on your pri...
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Kit Williams and the Golden Hare
— by Unknown on Friday, 21 August 2009

Kit Williams and the Golden Hare
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Like many people of my generation, I've been a long-term fan of the artist Kit Williams, ever since his treasure hunt, Masquerade. I...
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Thursday
30 July 2009

Baphomet takes a stand
— by Unknown on Thursday, 30 July 2009

Baphomet takes a stand
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As Britain reels from a summer of Plinth mania, you might like to know that in the interests of psych-occultists everywhere, writer and cha...
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Ahoy there!
— by Unknown on Thursday, 30 July 2009

Ahoy there!
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Anyone who has visited my website recently will have noticed that I've been a bit slack in updating it. I know, I know. I've been b...
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