ITR - Russell Grant Astrologer Comes Off Site at Glastonbury Festival & Visits La Lune Cafe
Michael Dixon Founder InTouchRadio.net
with Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche
at Sunrise Celebration 2009
Photo - FestivalImage.com
Saturday 27.6.2009
Glastonbury Town, Somerset UK
Russell Grant
Astrologer
Comes Off-Site & Visits Glastonbury's 'La Lune'
Astrology Cafe
Astrologer
Comes Off-Site & Visits Glastonbury's 'La Lune'
Astrology Cafe
Russell Grant - Astrologer
in La Lune Cafe Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Glastonbury 27 2009in La Lune Cafe Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
ITR-UK - GLOBAL
I was disappointed this year to have missed Glastonbury Festival but due to an accident I put my back well and truly out of kilter. For the past week I have been a very poor patient with muscle spasms causing an acute condition, even getting out of bed was a trial.
Yesterday, Saturday 27th June I took my first trip out of the house and tentatively went with my partner Carol into town (Glastonbury) to sort out a lost postal package and to have a cup of coffee in La Lune Cafe in the High Street.
Typical Glastonbury High Street Saturday
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
I did have another mission as I have been photographing pictures by Shurman, (a blog, which you may have seen recently about Shurman and the British Press) and had still to photograph some while in town.
It's funny you know but people say that Glastonbury goes very quiet when the Glastonbury Festival takes place, understandable when you consider that close on 200,000 people arrive at Pilton, about 7 miles from Glastonbury, in a very short period of time and many local people are imbibed into the structural workings of one of the worlds' largest festivals - hence lack of people in town and of course, many visitors would be, potentially, put off by the news of so many people grid-locking the roads for the festival week but not so today.
Glastonbury Lower High Street
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
When we arrived in town, the Farmers' Market was setting up nicely in St.John's Car Park. We chose our local organic farm produce without any problems; sorted out the postal issue and grabbed the lottery along with the Saturday Mail and its weekly TV magazine, then we slowly, literally slowly, wandered down to the already open La Lune Cafe, the time just before 9.30am.
Media Crews Often in Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
If you pop in to La Lune Cafe the sofas at the entrance are wonderfully comfortable especially if you have a bad back like I had. We were lucky as they were empty, my back was still very tender and sore.
La Lune Cafe, High Street Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
La Lune has been open now, I believe, around two years and was set up as an astrology cafe - each of the tables are named after a star sign. It also serves as an art gallery and is the home base of Shurman Art, something I recommend you to visit and you have the opportunity to purchase some of Shurman's paintings directly from or commission works from the man himself.
Hendrix (Eyes) Shurman
(Michael Dixon's Own Shurman Painting)
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
I had only just finished photographing Shurmans' latest paintings and had to wait for Shurman to bring in the very latest, which meant another hour - this of course, gave another opportunity to indulge in just one more freshly filtered coffee, I would have gone further and tried one of the locally made croissants but due to a food intolerance I am limited on what I eat and wheat is one of those intolerance.
Shurman
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Soon the town started to fill up with locals out for their Saturday necessities intermingled with those stray visitors ignorant of the festival. It wasn't long before wristbands became evident and by 10.30am the streets were filled with off-site Glastonbury festival goers arriving on the buses from the Pilton festival site.
Seano - Glastonbury's Own Green Man Poet - Wordsmith
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
I'd had to pop out to see a friend and on my return I found Carol had been in conversation with a man who I knew from the world of astrology and television, that being the famous Russell Grant who was sitting with his friend and associate Bruce.
Glastonbury Festival 2008
Pyramid Stage FOH
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Russell and Bruce had popped into town to escape for awhile the hustle and bustle of festival life and enjoy Glastonbury towns' energy and to have a freshly made delicious La Lune juice drink and coffee, only a brief segue from festival activity and, from what I can gather, the intolerance's of some of the security and Health & Safety rigidity at Pilton. (I don't understand what the UK is coming to with so many rules and useless regualtions that others in Europe completely ignore but that's another story...).
May Day Meeting Point
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
I asked about conditions on-site, it seems the rain on day one was now drying out nicely, which made me feel even more detached from my favourite stages at the festival, those being the Jazz World and the Acoustic stages, along with the myriad of other small stages that gave preference to some of music's best hidden acts and of course, the Greenpeace and wonderfully alternative Healing field.
Conversation now moved on, a few astrological questions posed without intrusion, and we soon realised we'd met before in my shop Touchwood Antiques home of Touchwood Music, when I used to live in the Cotswolds at Stow on the Wold. It was at this point that I mentioned some of the many people who visitied Touchwood and that we had a common link, which was David Icke who used to come to Stow on the Wold, back in the 80's and 90's. There was one other connection, a person I have interviewed, in length, at Sunrise Celebration Festival, that being the well known Daily Mail astrologer Jonathan Cainer.
Jonathan Cainer - Astrologer
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
At this point I remembered what Loretta, owner of La Lune had told me recently, that Jonathan the previous year had called in to La Lune, the the only astrological cafe in Glastonbury and discussed astrology with her. Carol, my partner, is a hobbying astrologer for over 30 years and knows Jonathan - the links continued connecting; La Lune seems the obvious place for such like minds to meet and converse their favourite subject.
Well that was my first foray out into the world of normality, as much as Glastonbury is ever normal and what a day full of non-coincidental meetings. I would like to say thank you to Russell and Bruce for the conversation and shared thoughts about Glastonbury Festival and for allowing me to photograph them tired from their time walking around that city in a field(s) that is Glastonbury Festival.
Visiting World Musicians in Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Hendrix (Eyes) Shurman
(Michael Dixon's Own Shurman Painting)
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
I had only just finished photographing Shurmans' latest paintings and had to wait for Shurman to bring in the very latest, which meant another hour - this of course, gave another opportunity to indulge in just one more freshly filtered coffee, I would have gone further and tried one of the locally made croissants but due to a food intolerance I am limited on what I eat and wheat is one of those intolerance.
Shurman
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Soon the town started to fill up with locals out for their Saturday necessities intermingled with those stray visitors ignorant of the festival. It wasn't long before wristbands became evident and by 10.30am the streets were filled with off-site Glastonbury festival goers arriving on the buses from the Pilton festival site.
Seano - Glastonbury's Own Green Man Poet - Wordsmith
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
I'd had to pop out to see a friend and on my return I found Carol had been in conversation with a man who I knew from the world of astrology and television, that being the famous Russell Grant who was sitting with his friend and associate Bruce.
Glastonbury Festival 2008
Pyramid Stage FOH
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Russell and Bruce had popped into town to escape for awhile the hustle and bustle of festival life and enjoy Glastonbury towns' energy and to have a freshly made delicious La Lune juice drink and coffee, only a brief segue from festival activity and, from what I can gather, the intolerance's of some of the security and Health & Safety rigidity at Pilton. (I don't understand what the UK is coming to with so many rules and useless regualtions that others in Europe completely ignore but that's another story...).
May Day Meeting Point
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
I asked about conditions on-site, it seems the rain on day one was now drying out nicely, which made me feel even more detached from my favourite stages at the festival, those being the Jazz World and the Acoustic stages, along with the myriad of other small stages that gave preference to some of music's best hidden acts and of course, the Greenpeace and wonderfully alternative Healing field.
La Lune Astrology & Art Cafe
High Street - Glastonbury
High Street - Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Conversation now moved on, a few astrological questions posed without intrusion, and we soon realised we'd met before in my shop Touchwood Antiques home of Touchwood Music, when I used to live in the Cotswolds at Stow on the Wold. It was at this point that I mentioned some of the many people who visitied Touchwood and that we had a common link, which was David Icke who used to come to Stow on the Wold, back in the 80's and 90's. There was one other connection, a person I have interviewed, in length, at Sunrise Celebration Festival, that being the well known Daily Mail astrologer Jonathan Cainer.
Jonathan Cainer - Astrologer
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
At this point I remembered what Loretta, owner of La Lune had told me recently, that Jonathan the previous year had called in to La Lune, the the only astrological cafe in Glastonbury and discussed astrology with her. Carol, my partner, is a hobbying astrologer for over 30 years and knows Jonathan - the links continued connecting; La Lune seems the obvious place for such like minds to meet and converse their favourite subject.
The Famous 'Smokey Joe' Arrives for Glastonbury Festival
Smoky Joe is 'HIStory in the Making'
Our conversation continued and Russell asked about InTouchRadio.net, I explained the ethos and direction of ITR and hopefully we will be able to get together in the future and discuss further the global nature of ITR and perhaps we can have an astrological chat leading to an open-ended interview (which I prefer) allowing the subject matter to evolve rather than be constricted to single question sterile points? (Watch this space).Smoky Joe is 'HIStory in the Making'
Well that was my first foray out into the world of normality, as much as Glastonbury is ever normal and what a day full of non-coincidental meetings. I would like to say thank you to Russell and Bruce for the conversation and shared thoughts about Glastonbury Festival and for allowing me to photograph them tired from their time walking around that city in a field(s) that is Glastonbury Festival.
Visiting World Musicians in Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
If you decide to visit Glastonbury you will be amazed at the alternative world that exists here and who you might just meet while having a coffee in town.
Glastonbury's Medieval Hostelry The George & Pilgrim High Street.
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR
Or a pint or three at the the ancient medieval hostelry the George & Pilgrim in the High Street.
Michael Dixon
ITR-UK
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