HW: my long gone regular 70 real Hawkwind CD's including "Distant Horizons"

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Sounds like good fun
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From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: HW: my long gone regular 70 real Hawkwind CD's including
"Distant Horizons"


> eddie jobson writes:
>
> > That memory sounds about right to me too Mike, it was my first and last
> > Stonehenge appearance and I remember it as you stated.
>
> Yeah. In fact while I was at Stonehenge festivals I usually went around
> visiting and sometimes staying at the local Peace Camps (yeh, yeah, my
> politics were a little different when I was an impressionable young
> lad). I also packed some straight gear in which I'd go to the local pubs
> in disguise to get some proper beer and get a shit and a shave in
> relatively sanitary conditions. I also got a chance to chat to the
> locals.
>
> By and large, up until 1983, there were mainly the blue rinse folks
> who'd have hated the festival under any conditions who were complaining.
> Some of the pubs refused to allow festivalers in but that was about the
> extent of the hostility. In 1984 every local pub had banned festivalers
> and "No Travellers" signs were on all the pubs. The local shops were
> also putting up signs. I was told this was because of a veritable
> crimewave of theft. One fireman I'd talked to had heard that 63 cars had
> been nicked in the local area. It was pretty obvious that something was
> going to happen. Thatcher being in power during a summer where
> "Traveller" trouble was seemingly everywhere just added to the fun.
> That the following year at Glastonbury there was similar nonsense
> (remember the burned out van in the lake of mud at what's now the Circus
> Field?) didn't help at all.
>
> I got back to Stonehenge in 1987 and even saw the sunrise from inside
> (broke into the cop compound and persuaded some aussie druids into
> smuggling me in on their bus and dodged the riot cops' sweep the next
> morning because I had a hotel room booked in Amesbury).  Chatting to the
> locals over breakfast, they were heartily pissed off at the cops for
> flying helicopters all night for a month and causing general
> inconvenience with roadblocks.  The sweep that I missed in fact walked
> everyone 9 miles out of the county, irrespective of where vehicles, and
> in one case even pets, were.  I did miss what sounded like a good party
> in Cholderton woods though, which is where they all ended up.  I tried
> to make Glastonbury by bicycle that day, but all the hassles at
> roadblocks prevented us getting there.
>
> They were fine times though. Things just haven't been nearly as weird at
> festivals since Stonehenge.
>
> IIRC (and I had had some cider again) Hawkwind had tried to set up on
> the back road from Amesbury that year.  They were getting cleared out by
> the cops when we passed.
>
> FoFP
>