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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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