Jamie is co-organising a music festival at Dounce Castle, largely I think because this is the kind of music he likes, and it sounded fun. Makes me wish I were young again. Acts confirmed so far include
Francois and The Atlas Mountains
Glider
Les Bof!
The Junipers
Adam Stearns
My Old Blue Terraplane
The Fast Camels
The Koolaid Electric Company
Punch and the Apostles
The Higher State
Paul Messis
The One Ensemble
The Wise Guys
Sunken, Drunken, and the Broken Boat
While the pitch is enticing:
Doune the rabbit hole is a two day tea party situated in the beautiful countryside surrounding Doune Castle, Stirlingshire. Come sit at our table and let me tell you what treats we have in store. Expect the tea to be strong; a blend of the finest psychedelic music complimented with a dash of folk brewed to perfection in a big pot of sunshine. And we mustn’t forget the cakes; indulge yourself in a delicious array of freshly baked delights comprising of poetry, dancing, philosophy, forests, stories, lights, trees, cows, theatre, comedy, dressing up boxes, whisky, games, face-painting, giant mushrooms, rainbows (but no rain), local ale and cider, lovely organic food, and many more surprises to come.
http://www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk/Doune_the_Rabbit_Hole/Home.html
Interesting to see how they get on with a festival featuring a style of music rather than anybody famous.
Wish I was there! Sounds cosmic! Am working, unfortunately. Hope it goes well.
I have just volunteered for some helping, if there is no upper age limit, my ‘previous’, looking after health and safety at major fairs should be handy to Jamie.
Been doing this since 1985 on and off, but its all the way up in Scotland, the country I have still to discover.
Very much in the vein of other “lifestyle” festivals such as the Big Chill, Shambala and The Secret Garden Party. Few big names but lots of entertainment, beautiful setting and friendly people. Of course the Big Chill sold out years ago to some big ents company and I haven’t been back since.
Sounds like great fun for kids, but hundreds of kms from where I am!
Reminds me of Glastonbury and that famous ‘pyramid’ stage – we held hands – we sang – we loved and helped each other while Marc Bolan sang ‘get it on (Bang a Gong).
And in the spirit of those days I ask for your help..
Janice Kelly and the family of Dr David Kelly have endured misery for far too long. Since being turfed out into the garden in the cold in her dressing gown while ‘police’ stripped the wall-paper of her house; witnessed a death certificate that bluntly said ‘found’ as the place of death and unsigned by a doctor; told that friends and colleagues should not attend the burial; told by Hoon MP that he had evidence in this case that could bring Blair down as Prime-Minister; forced to sell up and move away by intimidation.
Please help and write to your MP for a public inquiry to give Janice closure.
“Astonishingly, on August 18, less than three weeks into the Hutton Inquiry, which opened on August 1, Dr Kelly’s death certificate was mysteriously completed and the cause of his death officially registered as haemorrhage.
Put another way, five weeks before the Hutton Inquiry ended on September 24, 2003, and while the judge was still taking evidence about Dr Kelly’s death from witnesses, the official record of the cause of death was written and the case effectively closed.
Misleadingly, the death certificate states an inquest did take place on August 14 – even though we now know no inquest actually happened. And extraordinarily, though it bears the signature of the registrar, it is not signed by either a doctor or a coroner as every death certificate should be.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289692/Dr-David-Kelly-The-damning-new-evidence-points-cover-Tony-Blairs-government.html#ixzz0rwvXlOy7
Thank-you so much
Mark Golding
Milton Keynes
Fascinating, Mark. Thanks for the link. No doubt now we will start receiving avuncular rationalisations for all of these inconguities. But a great big vaccum remains where the truth ought to be.
I’d liked to listen to some Orange Bicycle today. Summer music.
Can’t these kids just take drugs like normal people ?
Hey Craig!
Do you agree with your fanatical disciple that people’s right to hold beliefs should be restricted by… anything at all?
And, do you really wish to attract disciples of this sort?
FFS (pardon my language), even Zionists don’t say this!
Summer music festivals. Peace and love, and all that. Good vibes. The Smoke – another great group from way-back-when.
err, suhayl, that’s called senile rambling.
Ha! ‘My Friend Jack’, The Smoke – check it out on youtube. Morgan Studios, I think.
Orange Bicycle was very big on the Continent, esp. in France.
Okay, okay… it’s 2010, yes, I remember now. Ah, mellow.
For you Suhayl 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXCoQVm5S-4&playnext_from=QL
Thanks, Scouse Billy. I’ll check it out later today – I can’t access youtube et al from I am right now. Cheers.
Btw, do you know of a (late) singer-songwriter called Jimmy Campbell from Liverpool? He was a superb songwriter, ver elegant pop songs. He died a couple of years ago, I think.
Sadly not, Suhayl. I’ve been an “ex-pat” for 30 years. I will look him up though.
Forgot to check “Remember Me”
“told by Hoon MP that he had evidence in this case that could bring Blair down as Prime-Minister”
Do you have a source for that?
“tea party”
There’s a phrase that’s garnered a whole new meaning recently.
Suhayl,
I am trying to contact Lou Holmes, of Upshire Gardens in Martins Heron who owns Brock the dog that found David. She told me in 2005 I think (through her friend) that David Kelly’s body was moved and that both Paul and herself had:
Not seen any blood from a so called haemorrhage.
Not seen the knife, water bottle or watch at the scene.
Had seen three men in civilian clothes on a path near the tree David was propped up against.
This from Janet in LONDON – even more fascinating if confirmed.
“And nothing here about the announcement of his death by the police (later denied) BEFORE he was “found” dead. (Oops) And nothing about a powerful secret services radio signals post set up in Dr Kelly’s garden – again, before he was found dead. It was a radio signal that couldn’t be intercepted. Why was this needed? And why were the ONLY messages known to be sent from it, to Tony Blair updating him on events, while he was in his government plane, on an overseas mission? And nothing about a female colleague of Dr Kelly’s who was mysteriously found dead, having “jumped” through her bedroom window, apparently having been warned off. She called someone to say if she was found dead to report her fears. That person has also been shut up. ”
“This whole saga stinks to high heaven, and BLAIR is one stinky fish in the centre. That seventy year gag order should be lifted forthwith before any witnesses are disappeared.”
‘Makes me wish I were young again.’
I went to Glastonbury 2000
I think it was that last one before the ‘iron ‘ wall went up.
Incredible number of people and wonderfully free.
Mark, I think the lady from London is called Rosemary.
I picked up on that too (and posted it elsewhere). I wonder where she got her info?
“Francois and The Atlas Mountains”
is this one of the bands?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD97JlbQR6Q
Listen from 2:22
Thanks Scouse Billy,
good thinking Billy – great mind – I wondered where that info came from and thought twice about posting – I’ve not seen that before and I speak to Norman on Facebook; he is the expert but not mentiuone dit either. Must do some more digging.
Mark,
Thanks – great minds, indeed.
Yes, please do some digging.
I’ve been following the doctors for a while now too. It’s refreshing to see their tenacity.
As this particular thread is about entertainment, here’s a look at the weighty subject of UFOs. Here’s a recent eye-opening Close Encounter with .. well, I can tell you that it ain’t just chicken:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHyBxincEco
Scouse Billy,
Doing some digging about the radio mast I have learned there was indeed a standard SIS comms unit set up at Kelly’s home – I would think HF encrypted radio teletype to send possibly a double encrypted ‘fax’ to Blair. Why such importance? If you believe Kelly was murdered ie no blood because heart stopped, no heat detected, Operation Mason started before David left home (2:30pm Thursday); SIS arrive at Janice Kelly before David was found and some ‘items’ taken including a coat and of course David was heading in the direction of the nearby village of Kingston Bagpuize according to a neighbour, Ms Absalom, NOT Harrowdown Hill ,then, as I do, you might believe that Blair said YES to the murder – hence he was desperate to know the cover-up went as planned.
Who would murder David Kelly and why. The why is easy to fathom because his evidence (more than we heard) would screw-up the American occupation of Iraq now in a sensitive stage because of the Uranium (yellow-cake) balls-up and the ‘outing’ of a CIA agent which is considered very serious. The ‘dodgy dossier’ was already giving Bush & Co kittens.
Who done it? Of course ‘dark actors’ as David Kelly said himself predicting he would be ‘found dead in a wood.’ I suspect we might just find out soon.
Mr John Simkin, a historian, makes the Machiavellian suggestion that pressure could have been maintained by a threat to Blair from America to leak information about the death in a way that would have implicated the British government if Blair failed to follow the Bush line on the war.
A friend of mine, a lowly MI5 field technician maintains, ‘we don’t do assassinations’ so was it the 3/4 people in a boat on the river Thames greeting Lou and Paul – were they British/Iraqi/American?
Certainly Tony Blair knows but he is now in the ‘protected club’!
craig,
do you think the liberal democrats will want to reopen the inquiry into the circumstances of dr. david kelly’s death?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289692/Dr-David-Kelly-The-damning-new-evidence-points-cover-Tony-Blairs-government.html#ixzz0rwvXlOy7
cheers,
mbotta
Mark, all of that is fascinating – and extremely scary. I don’t know enough – or can’t remember enough – about the details of the case to follow all your references. Who’s ‘Rosemary’, and who are ‘Paul and Lou’? By ‘Norman’, do you mean Norman Baker? Who is John Simkin? I hadn’t heard about the female colleague who “jumped out of a window”. I haven’t been following it closely enough.
One of the points made in the Baker book is that the injuries to Kelly’s wrist seem so amateur as to be not credible, i.e. they were inflicted as a conscious distraction, not simply in relation to the cause of death but also in order to point the finger at ‘amateurs’ or an ‘amateur’ suicide. I mean, if they’d really wanted to make it look like suicide, they ought to have slashed his wrist/ forearm before death in a longitudinal direction up the radial artery. So, was this killing a warning to other potential whistleblowers? “We can kill and make it look so amateurish and still get away with it”. I don’t buy Baker’s (albeit tentative) conclusion about Iraqi exiles and a UK govt cover-up of these exiles. I don’t think that’s credible. I think the UK govt certainly covered-up, but that the cover-up was of something was far more serious and systemic than simply a bunch of hoodlums.
Your pal at the SS may not have been lying, but the fact that they “don’t do assassinations” does not mean they don’t sub-contract such work to organisations that do. Rather like the outsourcing, by the SIS, of torture.
Tell us more, please. What is your theory – from the knowledge which you have accrued – on the death?
I don’t think we will find out soon, unfortunately. At least not definitively. The entire edifice of liberal democratic capitalist legitimacy in the UK rests on the fiction that the state does not kill its own citizens on UK soil or indeed elsewhere. If this facade were to be ripped away ‘mass publically’, it would risk threatening the ruling political class. That will not be allowed.
That is no reason not to continue to seek the truth, of course.
Mark, thank you. I’m not sure your friend is correct – Rasputin comes to mind.
There must be so much on Blair that, as you say, puts him in the “protected club” for the time being. I ponder what it would take for him to be “sacrificed”.
I felt like hearing my favourite song today. It is a beautiful song by Ismael Lo, a singer from Senegal, plangent yet soothing, and takes me to a world away from mine.
This song is also part of the original soundtrack of Pedro Almodovar’s movie All About My Mother” (“Todo sobre mi madre”) which is when I first heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lTHiObYX1o
PS Does anyone know what the type of tall building at 37 seconds is called? The stills are beautiful too and seem to match the music.
Suhayl,
Here is John Simkin and Norman Baker on the same blog talking about Norman’s book “The Strange Death of David Kelly.”
Louise Holmes and Paul ? I have forgotten his surname are the two ‘search & rescue’ team who with the help of ‘Brock’ the brilliant Border Collie and award winning search dog.
getbracknell.co.uk/news/s/2072843_rescue_dog_brock_misses_out_on_award
Louise was with Chilterns search team:
chiltern-search-dogs.org.uk/
and I think now the UK search & Rescue is co-ordinated by this group
ert-sar.co.uk/
I hope that helps.