Soho

Gulf Irony

(from Youtube)

Strange to think we were busily agitating for peace while our tune was being played to the troops…

Fresh video

Recently heard from the director of several of our vids, Rob Lewis, who has got nice shiny digital versions which we can put up as soon as he sends them over.

Rob, it was, who I talked with over a couple of years about finding the infamous Merry Pranksters footage, as made by Ken Kesey and co, the original proto-hippies, as they toured the USA in a psychedelic schoolbus driven by Neil Cassidy (Dean Moriarty of Kerouac’s On The Road) in 1965, ‘making a film’, but mainly taking trips.  It’s what the song Furthur on the album Thug is all about.

Somehow I was always too busy or poor to join him, but he tracked some of it down and made a good attempt at getting it put together… not sure what happened in the end, one day I’ll ask.

Dumb Liberal

It’s only just struck me that we can include this kind of stuff on this blog.

Here’s an American blogger who gets the meaning of the lyrics to Hippychick so hilariously wrong that I think he might be attempting irony.  I enjoy the fact that he thinks the singing is ‘doubletracked’ - quite so, and inevitable with twins.

But he’s fond of the track and that’s all that matters.  Thank you, humanizingthevacuum.

humanizingthevacuum.got-no-flowers-for-your-gun-sohos-hippychick/

Marvelous Mick Mercer

There are literally hundreds of photos by journalist Mick Mercer taken of the Camden/Kentish Town scene in London at the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s, here at the Facebook page Campaign to get Ian Watson to write the history of the Camden music scene including a few shots of Soho and some of our friends and rivals from that era.