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As festival season arrives, here's my top tip – you'll get far more aesthetic, cultural and psychic enrichment if you sack off half the music and do something else instead. The latest Listen Here column on @theQuietus:
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/listen-here/listen-here-why-festivals-are-best-if-you-ignore-half-the-music-do-something-else-instead/Media studies are popular, dynamic and have ‘profound impact’, report says
Our friends from @PeoplesHistreh will going on two more guided History walks:
'Agitating the Lawless Rabble'
Sun 28 Jul and Sun 4th Aug 2024
2pm Left Lion (Council House)
https://peopleshistreh.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/two-guided-walks-agitating-the-lawless-rabble/
Ends at the back of @BroadwayCinema, stick around to see our free #LGBTQ+ exhibition!Stonehenge Summer Solstice official live stream ✔️
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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.
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: diy
Doing it for Yourself, DJ magazine. December 1992
Doing It for Yourself DJ Magazine 10-31 December 1992 From their inaugural party (Harry’s birthday) just over three years ago DIY havegrown from a core of three or four into an extended posse that numbers over 100. The 30 or … Continue reading
Hothead ep DiY, Nottingham. Record cover photography
The tune ….
Facebook Pix : Castlemorton, DiY, FreeParty and Clubs
First submission for a feature in ‘Saturday Guardian Mag’ “We are running a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Bill in The Guardian’s Saturday magazine. It will publish on Saturday 20th April. “ https://tinyurl.com/2ysdm7xy
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective
Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective Lost Horizons, Bristol Samsung S10 4K Video 3840 x2160 I’m there again next Saturday 28th May and on the panel discussion then: 4pm – 5pm – Talks w. Q&A – DiY (Harry H … Continue reading
Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol
Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol. * Aaron Trinder, Filmmaker* Harry Harrison, DiY* Steff Pickles, Traveller* Alan Lodge, ‘Tash’, Photographer …. video of the panel by Sam also check out the groove at ….
“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
Tash on festivals, free party, rave, Castlemorton, Stonehenge, Beanfield etc etc … and so on…. DJ Mag
Castlemorton 1992: photographing the illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever This week marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic … Continue reading
DiY Sound System: Anarchist Ravers of Castlemorton : Vice Video
Including 25x of my pictures, supplied to illustrate the background to this material and interviews. “Someone called us 72 hour party people. It would start on Saturday and finish on Tuesday.”In the 1990s, no one partied harder than the raver. … Continue reading
DiY on Snapchat : Vice report
Interviews with lots of my pictures https://story.snapchat.com/p/f9fb2dea-098a-45db-b661-0faf9d1ae688/1380103818647552
FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVE – The Exhibition 20-28th May
Lost Horizon …FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVE – The Exhibition 20-28th May / 12-6pm / FREE On a hot bank holiday weekend 30 years ago, 20,000 people descended on land in the shadow of the Malvern Hills. What started out as … 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
Dreaming in Yellow: The Story Of The DiY Sound System – Book Launch
Join us for a live discussion dedicated to the book launch of ‘Dreaming in Yellow: The Story of DiY Sound System”. Written by Harry Harrison, one of DiY’s founding members, Dreaming in Yellow traces their origins back to early formative … Continue reading
FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVE
FREE PARTY: A RETROSPECTIVEFriday 20th May – Saturday 28th May12-6pm (unless otherwise stated)LOST HORIZON A retrospective of work from key contributors of the time to create a unique collection and reunion. Featuring art, photography, audio, film and interactive mixed media. SP23 (SPIRAL … Continue reading
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
Dreaming in Yellow : The Story of the DiY Sound System
Dreaming in Yellow : The Story of the DiY Sound SystemHarry Harrison book launch at The Angel, Nottingham.Saturday 26th March 2033 Dreaming in Yellow : The Story of the DiY Sound System Harry Harrison book launch at The Angel, Nottingham. … Continue reading