THE REAL WOMEN OF COUNTER CULTURE AND PEACE IN THE 60s The Society’s resident writer Eric Lastick takes a look at the incredible lyricism and powerful women of the time we forgot we couldn’t remember JANIS AT MONTERREY POP…23 & one beaded necklace hanging round circle…loud and hunger, the whiskey voice blue maiden…Texas daughter heart, …
There is something I want to share with you, a terrifying story about money, power, abuse, loss, cynicism, corruption, secrets and lies. But I can’t tell you anything about it. If I do, they will destroy me and my family. It’s a story of crime and flabby gangsters, conmen and shysters, all the worse for …
Just a few thoughts about writer’s block … I was standing in the gentle rain next to my old glinting limousine outside my rented cottage in the heart of once-merry Ol’ England. The cottage has stood for 400 years next to a lake where owls screech at 3am. I was having a cigarette. And I …
Ooh eck! In the 60s he was booed, heckled and called Judas in Manchester – then the BBC wiped Madhouse tape clean! But now he might be in Corrie… Ol’ Bob apparently likes nothing more in the evening than curling up in his rock’n’roll slippers and catching up with Coronation Street. And now the makers …
Bears in Slovakia are finally expected to survive long-term – but 10 years ago there were very few, 71 a year were earmarked for death and we were scared of them It’s a grizzly fact but there are dangerous bears in them there hills. And if one turned up looking for food, you can rest …
Leigh and Rodney extol the virtues and the negatives of people leaving their homeland CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO #HarryandMegan #Costablancaandvalencia #migration #Alicante
It is part of being human to want people to think you are absolutely fabulous. Even if you’re just an Ordinary Joe, or a wallflower wife or the bloke who works down the chip shop, you want to be thought of as something special. But what if – in the lardy, oily, fiery, fat-dripping confines …
A true story of absolute horror Picture this … a 95-year-old granny suffering dementia, is leaning heavily on her zimmerframe and moving slower than a snail round a specialist care home. Clare Newland – who once, for a few minutes, was the ‘darling’ of the Australian nation – is in the home because she is …
Our surrealist writer ERIC LASTICK this week investigates a stringed and wired hero of our time… JIMI OF WALLS AND BRIDGES: Seattle island urban three-storey high…builds of a red house over yonder. Jimi Hendrix stamped and owned on the exterior wall. Afro and moustache trademark a stellar vibe of his guitar. And as if to …
Rodney and Leigh discuss the Cloud over our society – come and join them… CLICK TO WATCH
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