folk (revivalists) and hippie (nazis) getting it together in the countryside

Sean has been in touch;

'In your blog you recently referred to my comments on the impact of the 1914 on the rural class struggle, which it occurs to me could be misinterpreted. I would like to take this opportunity to make it clear that I do not actually condone inter-imperialist warfare.

Two further points on folk revivalists and hippies getting it together in the countryside -

1. They remind us of the bourgeois holiday makers in the scene from Deliverance http://youtu.be/mpL0Q2OSRwQ - the local yokels are amusing,"give 'em a dollar".

Good on the local proles for their refusal of political economy and not taking it lying down!

2. Consider the cover pic of the Earth Covers Earth lp, in which various post-industrial east London squatter geeks (most of 'em more likely to get a feature in Searchlight than the Wire) strike a pose reminiscent of the classic ISB pic on the back cover of Hangmans...  (both covers can be seen together here). Current 93 and Death in June were, of course, well ahead of the curve, reviving "acid-folk" back in the 80s (at a time when Pentangle fandom was still the love that dare not speak its name, as Horsemouth is doubtless aware) thus providing us with a cautionary tale about where all this stuff leads...

Electric Eden is noticeably silent about DIJ, even though they are a perfect fit for all that "visionary albion dreaming" nonsense.

We might note that Shirley Collins recorded with C93.... (Having said all that, in the spirit of full disclosure, I should admit that I really like Earth Covers Earth...how embarrassing.)'

3. From Electric Eden - " But the naïve freshness of vision which bought it into being began to wither under the darkening skies of the new decade...reflected in the rise of the new urban underground of Mick Farren's Deviants, Hawkwind etc etc Angry Brigade blah blah, blah"

So, ignoring factual inaccuracy - the Deviants were actually one of the first underground bands, but tend to be written out of accounts of the period as, not being beautiful people, they don't fit the script -  behind all the cosmic nationalism, theres that old boomer chestnut the end of the sixties as the end of innocence; or, put another way, after '67 the bloody proles started to get restless. Basically, the same line as the Daily Fail - it was all strikes in the early 70s that ruined everything dontcha know. No wonder Young tries to incorporate notorious strike breaker (and warmonger) Winston Churchill into his pantheon of far out anglo-dudes.

ps. Meant to add - liked Sorrows of Tomorrow a lot. A touch of  Comus in the guitar?'