Nottingham Punk

Posted on 15 March 2026 by admin
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Dancing in the sun, Market Square, Nottingham

Posted on 14 March 2026 by admin
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Woodthorpe Tropical House

Posted on 14 March 2026 by admin
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Moroccan

Posted on 13 March 2026 by admin
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Ukraine : Rally and Protest

Posted on 13 March 2026 by admin

https://tinyurl.com/24nuwl9s

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Compare and Contrast :)

Posted on 13 March 2026 by admin

Two of us invalids on crutches. My mate Dave Stooke, the fantastic artist and me. Both arriving at this situation via a different route. Compare and contrast!

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Working on recovering my Linkedin profile after being hacked

Posted on 12 March 2026 by admin

Working on recovering my Linkedin profile after being hacked and squatted!


https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanlodge

Welcome, do drop by and check me out. Am still trying to restore much of my content that had disappeared after the incident.

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Travellers Vehicles Photo Zine

Posted on 12 March 2026 by admin

[A5 40 Page]

A selection of photographs of traveller vehicles

Gatherings in the open air with music are as old as anything human beings have ever done. Some of the tensions that result on the use of land probably began between the farmers and the hunter-gatherers of the Stone Age!

Throughout history, travelling lifestyle has always continued. With the free festival circuit developing through the 1980’s people escaping from Maggie’s decimation of jobs and the inner cities, numbers grew looking for alternatives.

People looked at the various examples provided by gypsies here and in Europe. To nomadic people across the world. To try life outside the house in many different ways and to pick and select those means that make life comfortable, easy and meaningful. The ‘bender’, the Indian ‘tipi’, the Moroccan ‘yurt’, the Romany ‘bow top’, the western two-man tent, the truck and the double decker bus.

Suddenly, life on the road in an old ÂŁ300 1960’s bus, truck or trailer seemed like a bloody good option weighed against the prospect of life on the dole – what was a poor boy to do. Five of you – ÂŁ60 each , forget about the Tax and Insurance, let’s just chuck a few mattresses in the back of the Bella Vega and head for the nearest festival where we will be welcomed with open arms and be swallowed up into the new age traveller / festival family; anarchists, venusians, pikies, pixies, conspiracy fugitives, old school, new school, never been to fucking school – wheeler, dealers, medicine spielers – tryers, flyers, out and out liars – saints, sinners, all of them winners – all of them strangers in their own very strange land.

‘Pageturner’ video at: 

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Camera Equipment and Monitor Setup

Posted on 12 March 2026 by admin
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NUJ Officers Course : Passed and finished

Posted on 11 March 2026 by admin

NUJ Officers Course : Passed and finished ….. Yay!

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Have now finished the last stage 3 of the NUJ union programme that is aimed at reps who have done Stages 1 and 2. The course brings together the skills and knowledge developed so far. It builds on them by looking at all the issues associated with negotiating on behalf of your members, either individually or collectively.

This course is designed to cover:

  • What is meant by negotiating within a trade union context?
  • Developing an awareness of key negotiating skills, and when to apply them.
  • Developing a strategy, arguments and tactics to support the union’s position.
  • Practising preparing for and applying a strategic plan in joint negotiations.

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Alan Lodge Transport : European Distribution :)

Posted on 11 March 2026 by admin

What many don’t know is my sideline as a fuel tanker haulier.

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Bass, yea!

Posted on 10 March 2026 by admin
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Bstorm from Desert Storm Sound System – Full Interview

Posted on 10 March 2026 by admin

This is the full, uncut interview filmed for the documentary “F(r)EE – Behind The Scene of the Free Party Culture” in 2017. Watch the documentary here: https://www.docnrollfestival.com/docn…

An essential in-depth documentary on the European free party tekno scene; from Desert Storm and Spiral Tribe, to tabloid panic and the ÂŁ200+ entrance fees of the modern day festival circuit, F[R]EE celebrates the global vibrancy and breadth of this counter-culture with international contributors from free parties and clubs across Europe and the UK, including Balter and Boomtown festivals. The film explores the strong bond between Tekno and the concept of the ‘Free Party’, enlisting several key players who were present at the birth of the genre. Featured artists and producers include 69db from Spiral Tribe, Mat Weasel Busters, Chris and Aaron Liberator, photographer Molly Macindoe, Shockraver, Randy909, Narkotek crew, Astrix, and many more. Watch the full documentary here: https://www.docnrollfestival.com/docn…

More info: https://freeparty.carrd.co/

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Vehicles, collected gallery

Posted on 9 March 2026 by admin
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Zine :: Castlemorton Common. May 1992

Posted on 8 March 2026 by admin

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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 a full stop to it. As a result the thousands of people travelling to the area for the expected Festival were shunted into neighbouring counties by Avon and Somerset’s Operation Nomad police manoeuvres.
The end result was the impromptu Castlemorton Common Festival, another pivotal event in the recent history of festival culture. In the event, a staggering 30,000 travellers, ravers and festival goers gathered almost overnight on Castlemorton Common to hold a free festival that flew in the face of the Public Order Act 1986. It was a massive celebration and the biggest of its kind since the bountiful days of the Stonehenge Free Festival. West Mercia Police claimed that due to the speed with which it coalesced, they were powerless to stop it.
The right-wing press published acres of crazed and damning coverage of the event, including the classic front page Daily Telegraph headline: “Hippies fire flares at Police”. The following mornings Daily Telegraph editorial read: “New Age, New Laws” and within two months, government confirmed that new laws against travellers were imminent “in reaction to the increasing level of public dismay and alarm about the behaviour of some of these groups.”
Indeed, the outcry following Castlemorton provided the basis for the most draconian law yet levelled against alternative British culture. Just as the Public Order Act 1986 followed the events at Stonehenge in 1985, so the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill began its journey in 1992, pumped with the manufactured outrage following Castlemorton.

Pageturner Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZX10IbttY

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Zine :: Travellers

Posted on 8 March 2026 by admin

 [A5 40 Page]

A ‘photo-essay’ describing the lives of what were once called New Age Travellers and the Free Festivals scene.

People looked at the various examples provided by gypsies here and in Europe; to nomadic people across the world.  To try life outside the house in many different ways and to pick and select those means that make life comfortable, easy and meaningful. The ‘bender’, the Indian ‘tipi’, the Moroccan ‘yurt’,  the Romany ‘bow top’, the western two-man tent, the truck and the double decker bus.

Many developed a sense of common purpose and identity.  There was an acceptance that modern life was too fast, expensive and polluting to the environment.  We had discovered Anarchy in action, and it worked!  People began working out and managing relations within ‘our’ communities, without reference to Them.The temperature had been rising for some time.  Assisted by the representation in the press and their invention of the ‘Peace Convoy’,  a moral panic was created.   The papers were full of the shock – horror that we have come to expect.     The Sun’s – “Gun convoy hippies attack police”  (No mention of gun in the article!).  The News of the World contributed –  “The Wild Bunch  –  Sex-mad junkie outlaws make the Hell’s Angels look like little Noddy”.  These were headlines read my millions of people and made modern day `folk-devils’ out of essentially peaceful people.

The Criminal Justice Act at large criminalizes diversity and dissent and thus has implications for the wider population such as say Trade Union activity and local protests about services  (the hospital, the by-pass, the local factory etc.).  Fundamentally, many of its provisions are about land rights.  What one can (and cannot) do on land.  Which is of course, nearly always someone else’s.

‘Pageturner’ video at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9IewIdGigg

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Fire Service turnout to Winchester Court flats 

Posted on 8 March 2026 by admin

Was on alert for evacuation ….. but all was well.

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Iranian Protest, for and against the military situation, Market Square, Nottingham

Posted on 7 March 2026 by admin

Golly gosh! A very confusing and dynamic event in the Market Square in Nottingham this afternoon.
‘Our Party’, unions and left called a protest to oppose the American and Israeli military adventures against Iran. Some Iranians agreed that they did not want their country to so be attacked. Other Iranians supported the attacks and would like to ‘Make Iran Great Again’, waving an American flag and saying that they think that the obvious future ruler of the country should be Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. Sporadic arguments broke out all over with a little pushing and shoving.
There was also a Pro-Palestinian rally nearby who then also became involved. Eventually police arrived and stood about trying to understand what was occurring and keeping some folks apart.

Then there was me hobbling about on crutches trying to keep up with it all.

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Love Cabbage

Posted on 7 March 2026 by admin
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All Systems No!

Posted on 6 March 2026 by admin

Would be nice to see all, the original crew, but don’t know how I’m going to get on with stairs at The Angel etc … on crutches ffs 🙁

With my creakiness. some might still be strong young men amongst us to give a hand!

But those wot know me, say hi xx

‘All Systems No” We originally organised All the sound systems together to raise fund and organise protest against the dreaded Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 CJA …. Repetitive beats etc…. What it was all about, explained here …. >

CJA (etc)

A Criminal Justice Fact

The people are growing stronger
In truth it is a fact
That the power of the people’s
from
The criminal injustice act
They thought that they could put
us down
Then right before their eyes
All oppressed united
join hands and swiftly rise
The act it seems was drafted
for a chosen few’s convenience
So what’s left for the rest of us
Down right disobedience

Ant, Plumstead

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