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This site is dedicated in the memory of

Roger Hutchinson,

who inspired me to delve deep into the magic of the free festival and who passed away Sept 3rd 2010.

R.I.P. Roger .....


Cannabis Law Reform Rally .

Brockwell Park Brixton.

Sun 23rd May 1982.


   Nice picture of the Cannabis Law reform rally in Brockwell park Brixton 1982 with Nik Turners pyramid which had seen good service at Stonehenge. with a link up between a wicked turbo sound rig with Jah Shaka ,Coxsone, king Sounds and DBC´s boxes all connected in a huge horseshoe. Even Tony Banks came up to shake hands with the organisers backstage.

    The African styled Ekome dance troupe from Bristol were lined up to play but unfortunately because of the huge numbers of people on stage the base collapsed and the centre of the stage caved in , fortunately it was only about 2ft 6in off the ground so nobody was hurt.

    A day of sunshine and showers and
a big thumbs up to the decriminalization of the cannabis user. About 5000 people turned up.

2002´s version looks well cool..And with the real possibilty of a reclassification of this mild intoxicant to a more enlightened approach to it´s status and availability for medical, social and industrial use.LONDON CANNABIS ACTION: Sat 4th May 2002
The 4th Annual Cannabis March and Festival: Dance on the Grave of Cannabis Prohibition.
. Carnival Style March from KENNINGTON PARK to Brockwell Park. Meet at noon.
Bring costume, banners, drums, laughter.
. Free Festival in Brockwell Park from 1pm with Speakers Tent, Hemp Expo
Marquee, Medical Marijuana Tent, Kids Area with Swingboats, Stalls, Hemp
Food, Hemp Beer, Samba Band, Floats and more.
LONDON FESTIVAL LINE UP:
. Main Stage - The Headmix Collective, Momo, The Trojans, Charged, Maximum
Roach, Deknology plus very special guests to be announced.
. Live Hip Hop Tent - Homegrown, Usual Suspects featuring Leonardo, Mud
Family & Skinny Man , Sun Records featuring Deftex DJís, Deknology, Dekfx,
Asetate Records, TMS Crew.
. Brixton Stage - live sounds from Hoover Pitman, Frightnight, The Fish
Brothers, Assi Rose, Ex Cathedra, Dubmerge, Headjam plus more on the day.
. Access All Areas Dance Marquee, from the home of London's techno
underground with Aaron Liberator, Zebedee, Bruiser, Karl & Geezer live, DAVE
The Drummer live, Kris K, Edit live, Gizelle.
. DVant - Ska, breaks, house mish mash.
. Conscious dub and roots - RDK Mannaseh and Negusa Nagast
. The Purple Turtle - live bands and hard house madness later
. BASS Brighton Alliance of Sound Systems - the best of the Brighton
underground.
. Femi9 Product - gurly beatz of a garage and dub nature.
. Squall - funky house, latin, breaks and more from the Squall posse.
. Aardvark and Pirate TV - team up for a visual sonic meltdown.
. chimaera sound system - progressive house to trance warming up for a
summer outdoors.
. Speakeasy Collective - folk to punk to funk to soul with sofas and table
footy.
. SLS - random collective of South London anarchists providing chill out,
info and hot drinks
+ Speakers Tent, Hemp Expo Marquee, Medical Marijuana Tent, Kids Area with
Swingboats, Stalls, Hemp Food, Hemp Beer, Samba Band, Floats and more.
TRANSPORT: March starts at Kennington Park, Kennington Tube, Northern Line.
Festival is at Brockwell Park, Brixton, Brixton Tube, Victoria Line or Herne
Hill Thameslink.
CONTACTS: email: Ganjadaysounds@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 020 7737 3044. 020 7267
8320. www.cannabiscoalition.org

 


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Free festivals and small fayres held in the United Kingdom between 1967-90.

1967-69.

 1970-79  
1980-92

 

  • Windsor Peoples Free Festival 1972-74
 
 Free festival related articles
Pay Festivals- Benefits for Travellers aid.
 

Main list of Free festivals 1970-1985

Free rock festivals of the 70s and 80s

Publications

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We are proud of the contribution we have made to Andy Worthington's sociological history of Stonehenge and the free festival scene in the UK .This new book gives a fascinating insight into the various counter cultural obsessions with the Stones and provides a variety of new perspectives to many of the key events surrounding the Henge such as the Battle Of The Beanfield and the more recent attempts hold a celebration at the Stones during the Solstice.

 

Find out more about this great book by clicking on the image on the left and visit the Heart of Albion Press web site .

Sending details of a small book I've just self-published which might be of interest to some readers of your admirable site.

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Tibetan Ukranian Mountain Troupe-surreal pranksters of the Traveller community .

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Traveller Daves Website - Chock full of of free festival photos !

Many, many thanks go to Roger Hutchinson , Big Steve , Roger Duncan, Celia, Will , Chazz, Jeza ,Chris Hewitt ,The Fabulous Time Tortoise , Peter Piwowarski - ( 70s music site/photos ) Martin S, Steve Austin ,Traveller Dave, Herb, Tim Brighton, Vin Miles, Haze Evans , Noddy Guevara, Chris Brown, Janet Thompson, David Stooke, Gary Gibbons , Nigel Ayers, Rich Deakin ,Glenda Pescardo,Justin Warman,Brian F, Steve Bayfield, Kev Ellis, Paul Seaton and many other minor contributors for their help in providing the archival material related to these free festivals which has at enabled us to construct the site .

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