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https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/product/drawing-on-festivals-travellers-and-tings“Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews: http://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/?p=6196
One Eye on the Road Slideshow https://youtu.be/or68GXDk4D0 via @YouTube
Next Tuesday May 24 marks the 3rd month of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/724921605415438
Join our campaign in protest at the invasion in Nottingham at 6pm outside the Council House.
For a free, united and victorious Ukraine!UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 1 (Phase 3) | Day 7 - (17 May 2022) - AM https://youtu.be/SKc51wb_zn4 via @YouTube
The Independent@Independentstill looking for a publisher for this evergreen concept yeah? https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1526472400291909635
Piers Morgan got called a 'c**t' live on his own show https://www.indy100.com/tv/piers-morgan-uncensored-trans-activist?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652773231
EXPLAINER: The Public Order Bill 2022 https://netpol.org/2022/05/17/public-order-bill-2022/ via @policemonitor
The Guardian@guardianPriti Patel trails plans to arm the hobby bobbies https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1526316477661560838
Special constables to be given access to stun guns in new crime measures https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/16/special-constables-to-be-given-access-to-stun-guns-in-new-measures?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1652737079
Priti Patel lifts restrictions on police stop and search powers https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/16/restrictions-on-police-stop-and-search-powers-permanently-lifted?CMP=share_btn_tw
A controversial measure announced on Monday will allow officers to stop and search people without reasonable grounds .... The government announced that changes to stop and search without suspicion, so-called section 60 stops, would now be made permanent. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/16/special-constables-to-be-given-access-to-stun-guns-in-new-measures?CMP=share_btn_tw
UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 1 (Phase 3) | Day 6 - (16 May 2022) - AM https://youtu.be/PmWxPh1bqTc via @YouTube
DiY on Snapchat : Vice report http://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/?p=6189
Castlemorton, May 1992 https://youtu.be/e7k_1gLwGU0 via @YouTube
Taken together with the PCSC Act, these new powers the Home Secretary is trying to have [ie a power grab], will mean Patel will have more option to direct police activity against protest / action the government simply don't like! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/15/priti-patel-accused-of-power-grab-over-new-policing-proposals
Tash on YouTube
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- Leader of Nottingham City Council Cllr David Mellen, Speech on Russia 'Victory Day' in Nottingham
- Irina Speech on Russia 'Victory Day' in Nottingham
- Etienne Stott MBE, Speech of Extinction Rebellion XR
- Nadia Whittome MP [Nttm East] Speech. Mayday Event
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- All things go in cycles
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- Capoeira Dance, Market Square, Nottingham
- One Eye on the Road Slideshow
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- Stand with Ukraine. Speeches x3, London.
- Stand with Ukraine. Speech, Pete Radcliff.
- Stand with Ukraine. Trade Unions March, London
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An ongoing diary of stuff, allsorts, and things wot happen ……
I am a photographer with a special interest to document the lives of travelling people and those attending Festivals, Stonehenge etc, what the press often describe as ‘New Age Travellers’ and many social concerns.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people engaged in ‘Alternatives’, and youths’ many sub-cultures and to present a more positive view.
I have photographed many free and commercial events and have, in recent years, extended my work to include dance parties (’rave culture’), gay-rights events, environmental direct actions, and protest against the Criminal Justice Act and more recently, issues surrounding the Global Capitalism.
Further, police surveillance has recently become a very important subject for me!
In recognition of this work, received a ‘Winston’ from Privacy International, at the 1998 ‘Big Brother’ Awards. The citation reads: “Alan Lodge is a photographer who has spent more than a decade raising awareness of front-line police surveillance activities, particularly the endemic practice of photographing demonstrators and activists”.
I am based in Nottingham, UK.
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Recent Posts
- “Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool. Reviews: 18 May 2022
- DiY on Snapchat : Vice report 15 May 2022
- Free Party Exhibition – A Retrospective, Bristol 15 May 2022
- Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival, Huck Magazine 12 May 2022
- Democracy shrivels in silence. We must protect our right to protest. 12 May 2022
- The shiny new Public Order Bill 11 May 2022
- A Succession of Repetitive Beats 11 May 2022
- Leader of Nottingham City Council Cllr David Mellen, Speech on Russia ‘Victory Day’ in Nottingham 9 May 2022
- Irina Speech on Russia ‘Victory Day’ in Nottingham 9 May 2022
- FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVE – The Exhibition 20-28th May 8 May 2022
- Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition 8 May 2022
- BBC Click – Virtual Raving 8 May 2022
- Etienne Stott MBE, Speech of Extinction Rebellion XR 7 May 2022
- Nadia Whittome MP [Nttm East] Speech. Mayday Event 7 May 2022
- Radical Landscapes : Art, Identity and activism Tate Liverpool 6 May 2022
- My video : Radical Landscapes Exhibition, Tate Liverpool 6 May 2022
- Radical Landscapes | Trailer | Tate 6 May 2022
- Tate Liverpool launches its summer 2022 exhibition | The Guide Liverpool 6 May 2022
- Another Guardian review : Nukes in the brooks: the artists who weaponised landscape art 6 May 2022
- Guardian Review – Radical Landscapes 6 May 2022
Quotes & Thoughts
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!!”
Harry Lime [Orsen Wells] The Third Man 1949“Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church, falls on the last priest.”
Emile Zola“….I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world.
If you’re out there and you’re not cute, maybe you’re beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin’- there’s more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out now…”
Frank Zappa
Tag Archives: rave
A Succession of Repetitive Beats
A Succession of Repetitive Beats. BBC Radio4 8pm o 14th May 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017f1b Political journalist Tom Barton recalls the rave that changed Britain, at Castlemorton Common in May 1992. In the weeks leading up to Castlemorton, New Age Travellers had … Continue reading
Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition
The event at Lost Horizon will bring together some of the most instrumental people from the early 1990s free party scene bristolpost Festivalgoers these days are used to paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege of spending a few days … Continue reading
BBC Click – Virtual Raving
BBC Click – Virtual Raving !!! Crickey … whatever next [starts at 19.00mins] https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00178ks/click-drones-rapping-and-raving
Book Review: Dreaming in Yellow by Harry Harrison
Book review from UK Free Parties and Free Festivals 1988-1994 First off, a disclaimer: this review is going to be biased. Why? Firstly, because Dreaming in Yellow is a veritable treasure trove for anyone documenting the free party scene of the early … Continue reading
How DiY Sound System blazed a trail for the ’90s free party movement
The origins of DiY Sound System date back to a mid-‘80s England that was a very different place to how it is in 2022. In many ways it was an England that was freer than today: you could still squat … Continue reading
“We were young, relentless and skint”: Smokescreen soundsystem celebrates 30 Years
This year, the UK-based free party turns 30 and looks back at some of its most outlandish raves WORDS: GEMMA ROSS, OSBOURNE DANIEL | PHOTOS: ALAN LODGE, MATTHEW SMITH, JENNY PLATES, JORGE & AI 22 FEBRUARY 2022 In April of … Continue reading
“It’s never too far” : The inside story of Castlemorton – History’s most infamous rave
Read an excerpt from DiY founder Harry Harrison’s new book, Dreaming in Yellow: The story of DiY Soundsystem WORDS BY: HARRY HARRISON | EDITED BY: GEMMA ROSS | PHOTOS BY: ALAN LODGE 7 MARCH 2022 Never has there been a … Continue reading
Smokescreen Crew, 30 years
In case you didn’t know ,When it comes to the UK free party scene, one of the most prominent Sound Systems over the last quarter of a century has been Smokescreen. Their parties and club nights have become synonymous with … Continue reading
Everybody In The Place – An Incomplete History of Britain 1984 -1992 by Jeremy Deller
Some of my piccys from 42:49mins Originally aired on BBC Four 2nd August 2019 – an excellent acid house documentary by Jeremy Deller. Acid house is often portrayed as a movement that came out of the blue, inspired by little … Continue reading
The Secret History of Spiral Tribe
The Secret History of Spiral TribeNot many people know this, but the horse-drawn travelers had a big part in shaping the direction of Spiral Tribe in 1991.Back then we were urban squatters. Occupying empty buildings in London to live, work … Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: PRITI PATEL USED INCORRECT DATA ABOUT ILLEGAL RAVES TO JUSTIFY EMERGENCY POWERS FOR THE POLICE
FEATURES EXCLUSIVE: PRITI PATEL USED INCORRECT DATA ABOUT ILLEGAL RAVES TO JUSTIFY EMERGENCY POWERS FOR THE POLICE An investigation by Mixmag has found that The Met was using a flawed methodology to calculate the number of raves that it was … Continue reading
Has The Left Forgotten How To Have Fun? | Downstream
Give this a listen when you get a chance. Musical styles and a bit of history
Tash’s Traveller, Festival Rave etc …. Playlist of past broadcast programmes, about it all
Joe Rush & Friends – I am a Mutoid – A Glastonbury Hero
Documentary about the work of Joe Rush and The Mutoid Waste Company I Am A Mutoid a documentary by Letmiya SZTALRYD Spreading the gospel of “Mutation”, Joe Rush and his Mutoid Waste Company, an underground collective of wild and subversive … Continue reading
Fight for the right to party
For a brief moment, at vast and lawless raves such as Castlemorton, a generation glimpsed an alternative way of life. Speaking to survivors of the early 90s free party scene, Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed … Continue reading
Zine Shop: With new titles
Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge, Photography Zine Shop: With new titles: https://alanlodge.co.uk/index.php/shop
DiY Digs & Woosh Castlemorton 1992
earlier version of tracks with Pete and Rick. Piccys [mostly] by me
Zine :: Castlemorton Common. May 1992
The annual Avon Free Festival which had been occurring in the area around the May bank holiday for several years, albeit in different locations. [Inglestone, Sodbury Commons etc]. However, 1992 was the year Avon and Somerset Police intended to put … Continue reading
New documentary on history of the uk’s free party movement is in the works
A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to help the documentary get released BRIAN CONEYTHURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021 – 11:34FacebookTwitter A new documentary exploring the history of the UK’s Free Party Movement is in the works. Free Party: A Folk History … Continue reading