rainbows over olympia

interesting. 'basta'. things are never entirely easy. (even this late in the game). and yet the similarities are remarkable.

phew it all seems to have blown itself over and out. so far so good mutters horsemouth to himself. 

the festival for mind-body-spirit, olympia london, 21–29 april 1979 promised UFOs and psychical phenomena on the black and white poster but on the  coloured poster  it offered a tamer sounding mix of earth mysteries, yoga, dance and a rainbow dome. steve hillage and miquette giraudy soundtracked it. 

steve hillage's albums of the time were very strange. first rainbow dome (new age rather than ambient) then open which is kind of either a disco album or a precursor of house and techno. eventually the south wales branch of the neophytes found their way through to the more straightforwardly gongish guitar and hippie pleasures of  L, green and motivation radio. 

similarly (and probably earlier)  the guy from quintessence later went on to be instrumental in the creation of goa trance.  

here it is a grey morning and the rain falls (which is typical of the time of year). people are at play on their devices.  he has started reading balzac's a country doctor in a little  everyman edition (which as far as he can work out he has not read before). he was confusing it with zola's doctor pascal. 

yesterday a walk on the common. his mum got chatting to an old local dude, horsemouth tried to stand well back in a socially distanced fashion. later horsemouth showed the fall of the house of fitzgerald to his family. it was met with various degrees of resistance and comprehension. this (and the various musicians of bremen  releases  were his high tide marks of the year).