The GetUp Mob perform From Big Things Little Things Grow featuring Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody, Missy Higgins, Urthboy, Ozzi Batla, John Butler and more.

kirs et mat

kirs et mat

kirs et mat

So far in this continuing blog: Dennis, Joey and Schwann (online below) have met in Malaga, Spain, then tripped to Ibiza to stay with Richard Wolfe and the Goddesses. “One Night on Ibiza” is the blog directly before this if you want to go backwards, otherwise begin at the blog “Fear and Loathing with Dennis Mckenna on the Costa del Sol”, where it all began.

"Everywhere I Go, Ego"
painting by Tim Parish
acrylic on canvas,  April 2008

"Since the early 1990s Psychedelic Electronic Dance Music Culture (PEDMC) gatherings – centered on the psychedelic trance music genre and its accompanying drug-fueled carnivalesque revelry – have significantly impacted upon Israeli culture in general and on its young generations in particular. In fact, Israel is arguably the only country in the world where psytrance is a prevalent form of popular music and one so widely exported that the global trance community recognizes Israel as a 'trance power'. Occurring on a regular basis, local PEDMC events are an increasingly common form of recreation among diverse segments of Israeli youth. Known as 'parties' or mesibot, Israeli PEDMC gatherings have a reputation of being "full-on" in their approach to music production and performance as well as to participants' open and often brazen use of illegal drugs. Yet, despite – or perhaps because of their popularity – estimates claim that these gatherings attract between fifty to one hundred thousand monthly participants – mesibot continue to be viewed negatively by the Israeli mainstream establishment (e.g. educators, media and law enforcement) who feel challenged by local PEDMC affiliates' seemingly countercultural stance.

Richard Neville looks back at the war in Iraq on its 5th anniversary and discusses the failure of mainstream media and such sites as YouTube to convey the full spectrum of horrors committed by occupiers. Puppy tossing is a metaphor of psychopathic breakdown. Neville compares those who rely on conventional news sources to the prisoners in Plato's cave - ill equipped to see what's really happening. And as for the instigators of the invasion, why are they still at large?

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"Thinking Outside Pandora's Box"
April, 2008 - Magic Marker
Tim Parish

 
'i dreamt of a burning beauty, in the cold theiving hours all my people rallying round one another spiraling into their heights, in a beautiful burning evening'
 
the night is something between a liquorice kiss and a friendly molotov cocktail... the bohemian ball will leave you dizzy and nauseous with inspiration and bravado with two stages running throughout the night featuring bands from all over the incestuous boho scene of melbourne, brisvegas and paris, local short films, dance troupes, chai tent, kurdish food, fire acts, poets, robots, crazy elves, samurais.
 
It will be a Brisbane storm, with some of the heaviest reigning bands coming down for the ball the funkjazz aficianados 'Kafka' and the soul, groove good lipped lingustics of 'Mr Laneous' and a mighty show for the heavy weights of Dub the 'Dynamic Thrills'.
 
'Matt Kelly & the Keepers' the rock experimental group getting high rotation on audience emotions.