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

Russell Grant - Astrologer
in La Lune Cafe Glastonbury
Photo Michael Dixon - ITR

Glastonbury 27 2009
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

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.

La Lune Astrology & Art Cafe
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).

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

Or a pint or three at the the ancient medieval hostelry the George & Pilgrim in the High Street.

Michael Dixon
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ITR - Michael Jackson - RIP Michael - ITR-UK - GLOBAL

Michael Jackson

We received the news late yesterday about Michael - and wish him peace in the land that follows this.

We send our deepest sympathies to Michael's children and family and for Michael's love to envelope them through the difficult times ahead.

Michael Jackson carried that blend of genius in his work helped in the beginning by his supportive brothers in those heady days of the 1960's and 1970's when they worked as a one family group. Michael's young energy blossomed like a flower from youth to older youth but never taming that energy called adulthood and we are the better for that in the life that Michael shared with his world family.

Many will look into the negativity of a life that has passed but the more will see beyond that veil and see the wondrous zeal that came forth into that human frame we knew as Michael Jackson.

For whatever reason we enter and depart this life Michael Jackson is one of those who will be remembered for his amazing skills as a singer, musician, dancer and entertainer which came to fruition during the 1980's with his music and video's which challenged and defied what one person could do and with choreography that still amazes.

He leaves a very empty space in the world of music which has changed so dramatically over the past 10 years or so.

I, for one, cannot see another that will lift the generations over the next 40 years as Michael Jackson did. Everyone of us in the music world know of Michael no matter our age - his presence bridged the gap between cultures and broke the American boundary between black blues and white pop and he leaves us as he will always be known for his music thrilled and entertained and the triple albums Bad - Thriller and Dangerous were, for me, the culmination of his life's work which, perhaps, emulcified in the following album HIStory.

Michael Jackson died aged 50 on the 25 June 2009 and like those others in the world of entertainment who departed before their natural time, Michael Jackson's memories will remain ever youthful and always 'The King of Pop'.

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ITR - Michael Jackson - RIP Michael - ITR-UK - GLOBAL

Michael Jackson

We received the news late yesterday about Michael - and wish him peace in the land that follows this.

We send our deepest sympathies to Michael's children and family and for Michael's love to envelope them through the difficult times ahead.

Michael Jackson carried that blend of genius in his work helped in the beginning by his supportive brothers in those heady days of the 1960's and 1970's when they worked as a one family group. Michael's young energy blossomed like a flower from youth to older youth but never taming that energy called adulthood and we are the better for that in the life that Michael shared with his world family.

Many will look into the negativity of a life that has passed but the more will see beyond that veil and see the wondrous zeal that came forth into that human frame we knew as Michael Jackson.

For whatever reason we enter and depart this life Michael Jackson is one of those who will be remembered for his amazing skills as a singer, musician, dancer and entertainer which came to fruition during the 1980's with his music and video's which challenged and defied what one person could do and with choreography that still amazes.

He leaves a very empty space in the world of music which has changed so dramatically over the past 10 years or so.

I, for one, cannot see another that will lift the generations over the next 40 years as Michael Jackson did. Everyone of us in the music world know of Michael no matter our age - his presence bridged the gap between cultures and broke the American boundary between black blues and white pop and he leaves us as he will always be known for his music thrilled and entertained and the triple albums Bad - Thriller and Dangerous were, for me, the culmination of his life's work which, perhaps, emulcified in the following album HIStory.

Michael Jackson died aged 50 on the 25 June 2009 and like those others in the world of entertainment who departed before their natural time, Michael Jackson's memories will remain ever youthful and always 'The King of Pop'.

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ITR - Mini Glastonbury Festival at the Farmers' Market this Saturday - Don't Miss It - Michael ITR-UK

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net (ITR)
with Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche at Sunrise Celebration 2009

Glastonbury Farmers Market

has its own Mini-Festival!

St. John's Church - Glastonbury
Photo - © Michael Dixon 2009

Do come to the market this Saturday. With the Festival on the town itself is tranquil and the roads are back to normal, between the rush of Festival arrivals and departures. All the festival-goers are fenced in a few miles away at Pilton.

Meanwhile we have our own little festival at the market, with laid-back local blues musicians Bridge 45 who'll play while you shop. With a canopy roof overhead, no mud underfoot and excellent food and drink on tap, what more could the connoisseur of the good life require?

And if you're planning on visiting the Festival on Sunday why not visit the market to prepare a picnic with:

Box Bush Farm apple juice

Leaker's artisan bread

12 Seasons chutney

Wooton Dairy sheeps cheese

and The Great Cake Company carrot cake

Or alternatively:

Lovely Drinks sparkling cordial

Somerset Cheese Co's buffalo cheese

Ham Street bacon and mushroom pasties

Granny's Larder old fashioned cakes

and Flaxdrayton Farms summer fruits

So many combinations! So many picnic opportunities!

Because of the Festival it can be a quieter market but all our producers are keen to come as usual, so do come along and give your support. We can guarantee that it will be cheaper than festival food and twice as tasty. For more information contact http://www.sfmdirect.co.uk/markets/

Michael Dixon
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ITR - RICKY TICK CLUB WINDSOR - Information and Groups Who Played There Contact www.InTouchRadio.net

Michael Dixon ITR-UK
& Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche
at Sunrise Celebration Festival 2009

The

Ricky Tick Club

Windsor

Berkshire (UK)

&

InTouchRadio.net

1962 - 1968

If you have information, photos, bootleg music played there or have memories of all the Tick Clubs then please contact me - info@intouchradio.net.

I'm in contact with John Mansfield who ran the Ricky Tick Club in Windsor during those heady - head stompin' funky daze throughout the 1960's.

The Ricky Tick was the place to play outside of London when bands were bands and touchable and approachable - the list would be too long of all the major acts that played there through those years whether it was at the Star & Garter Pub upstairs out back or at the Thames Hotel down by the river near Windsor Bridge or where it ended at the Old Etonian Club by the Swimming Pool adjacent to the Windsor ByPass. Later the 'Tick' found itself in other towns for a brief period after the Old Etonian Country Club tenency was curtailed.

Photo courtesy of GetSurrey.co.uk

The associations with all other major clubs with the Tick as it was known again too many to mention in this brief.

Can you help by spreading the word around - get InTouch with all those 60's bands that played the Southern Circuit and ask them to get back into those brain cells and pull out those memories.

The Shakers
Photo courtesy of GetSurrey.co.uk

John will be coming to mine soon and we will be recollecting those days that made the music of today and if you've contact with the legends that played there then ask them to get their teams to contact me.

Perhaps we can get those other Clubs such as The Wooden Bridge, Guildford, EelPie Island, Marquee (Wardour Street), Ronnie Scotts, 100 Club, Chalk Farm - all those interactive moments that need collecting for you to know what it was like to be in music when it was real bands being paid to play not paying to play; the days on the road, the Ford Transits with double back wheels, the Ford Thames with column changes, the seats changed with old aircraft seats from Heathrow. Going to get your amps repaired with Jim Marshal at Southall, Goodmans Speakers - changing those great big 18 inch drivers - Selmer in Charing Cross Road, the Gia Condor in Denmark Street... come on let's get those memories out so the musicians out there now know what it was really like back then.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you Urgently as I have the meeting soon with John Mansfield and he has so much information ready to be released.

Contact me - Michael - info@intouchradio.net

Below is a Blog from www.rocksbackpages.com which includes that other 60's landmark club - Leo's Cavern in St. Leonard's Road, Windsor, Berkshire (UK) which was part of the Ex-Servicemens' Club.

The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Rolling Stones At The Ricky-Tick, January 1963

Posted Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:54pm PDT by John Pidgeon in Rock's Backpages

John Pidgeon was there at the dawn of the British blues boom. This thrilling memoir of seeing harmonica legend Cyril Davies--followed swiftly by the Rolling Stones--at Windsor's Ricky-Tick club takes you straight back to how it felt to stand on the verge of a musical revolution--complete with girls who looked like Jean Seberg!--Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages

The first time I hear Cyril Davies blow his harmonica is January 1963 at Leo's Jazz Club in Windsor. As I approach, shoulders hunched against the cold, I watch billows of cigarette smoke, lit pink and yellow by the lights inside, spill from an open door, before the thin, chill evening air is split by an inhuman scream, a siren wail that rises a tone, then subsides.

The sound nails me momentarily to the pavement, then propels me to the entrance of an unprepossessing British Legion Hall, which by day is a hang-out for pensioners who have served time, as most have, in the armed forces. At a folding table by the door I fumble distractedly in my pocket for the four-shilling entry fee, entirely absorbed by the source of this extraordinary sound: a balding, badly-dressed man, who looks middle-aged to my teenage eyes.

I struggle to relate the sound I hear to what I can see. Davies's hands are cupped in front of his mouth, a cable trailing from his fingers, but his instrument is invisible, apart from a glinting sliver revealed whenever he parts his hands, a movement matched by a modulation in the sound.

Unseen it might be, but what I'm listening to is as powerful and evocative an instrumental voice as Little Richard's piano, Buddy Holly's guitar or Ray Charles flat-top Wurlitzer soloing the opening bars of "What'd I Say." Davies can make this thing he had hidden in his hands cry, shout, and howl so my hair stands on end. And there is no room for doubt, these sounds can only be coming from him, because the other instruments on stage are drums, bass, guitar and piano, and I know the sounds they make. So does my companion--a jazz fan, hence our visit to Leo's Jazz Club--who is soon hissing from the side of his mouth that what the R&B All-Stars are playing is little different from rock 'n' roll, an opinion to which I am able to nod urgent agreement, without letting on that this is not the least of the reasons that I love it. I don't want to piss him off. He's the one with the driving license and his mother's car.

As the set progresses, a beanpole singer with a blond fringe and a teasing smile takes his turn at the microphone, but his singing is too smooth, too jazzy for my taste. Meanwhile, a black female vocal trio attempt an approximation of the Raelettes, Ray Charles' backing singers, whose visceral harmonies I know from my live Ray Charles At Newport album. Indeed Davies and the Velvettes recreate Charles' "(Night Time Is) The Right Time," though without the sex-fuelled fire of Marjorie Hendricks, and, anyway, all I have ears--and open-mouthed wonder--for are Cyril Davies and his harmonica.

The wail of Cyril Davies's harmonica tears straight to the centre of my heart, and the next day, a Saturday, I catch a bus into town and find a Hohner Marine Band harmonica in the music shop. On the way home I slip it from its snug blue box to study its simple features: twelve holes to be sucked or blown, each of them numbered--pointlessly, it seems to me, since the numbers are lost from sight even before the instrument is pressed to one's lips. On the face of it, there is even less here to master than on a recorder, and yet the repertoire of sounds conjured from it by Davies is infinitely more expansive. This comparison triggers a suspicion that learning to play like him isn't going to be easy.

In my bedroom I cup the harmonica the way I saw Davies do last night. I try some experimental sucks and blows, enough to teach me that the blow is only a tuneful means of emptying my lungs before switching to the suck that creates the more evocative notes. Remarkably, the modulated suck that "bends" the notes a semi-tone comes to me quickly, and by lunchtime I am able to ape Davies' wail at different points on the scale, but I have no records from which I can learn melodic sequences and none that I heard him play have stayed in my head. I know I have to see Davies and his R&B All-Stars again.

Fortunately, in spite of his aversion to amplified "beat music," my Leo's companion has taken a pointless shine to one of the Velvettes who, he has convinced himself, was giving him the come-on. I don't openly question why he imagines a statuesque African professional singer should have been eyeing up a grammar school sixth-former, barely out of short-back-and-sides, but gratefully accept his invitation to revisit the club the following Friday.

Although Cyril Davies thrills me as before, Long John Baldry's unctuous vocalising is even less to my taste, while the Velvettes' strident harmonies grate on my ears. During the week I have listened to Ray Charles At Newport, cementing my opinion that these three are no match for the Raelettes. As the All-Stars step off stage for the interval break, Davies waiting for no one as he hustles to the bar, my companion, blaming the smoky atmosphere, but perhaps also seizing the chance to play hard-to-get, insists that we should stretch our legs and clear our lungs.

Minutes from the British Legion Hall, in a narrow street that sides the Star & Garter Hotel, I stop, astonished, at the sound of more upbeat blues and another harmonica. I search for the sound with my eyes and see dancers silhouetted in the open windows of an upstairs room attached to the back of what is plainly more pub than hotel. On either side of the doorway that leads upstairs, black posters with white lettering announce "The Ricky-Tick Club and the Rolling Stones Every Friday 5/-." Judging by those cooling off outside, the Ricky Tick crowd is younger and hipper, and the girls prettier, than at Leo's. There are studenty types and some snappy dressers. While I move involuntarily, and, I hope, inconspicuously, to a spirited version of Benny Spellman's "Fortune Teller," the rhythm driven by maracas, my eyes lock with the wide-eyed gaze of a girl wearing black ski pants, whose dark hair is cropped as short as Jean Seberg's in A Bout De Souffle, but, as if struck by a thought, she looks away, grinds her cigarette under her heel, and disappears inside.

Hands, as always, in my pockets, I weigh the two half crowns my mother has given me as petrol money for my driver, who has halted a few yards further on and is giving me the hurry-up sign with a finger on his watch face. I shout, "I'll see you at the car at ten thirty," and duck into the doorway.

Once I've seen the Rolling Stones at the Ricky-Tick, there is no going back to Leo's. The Stones are what I've been looking for without expecting to find: a young white English group playing black American music. And they really have mastered the idiom. They won't become famous because they wear their hair like girls or urinate on a garage forecourt or get busted for drugs, but because they are white boys who play black music better than anybody has before.

The group's residency at the Ricky-Tick lasts six months, from January to July 1963, but more than forty years later I can revisit those Friday nights at will: I can see the upstairs room with the bar against one wall, a small, barely raised stage in the opposite corner, and, incongruously, fishing nets hung from the ceiling; I can hear the crowd singing along with the Stones' closing "Bye Bye Johnny," answering Mick's circling wave of a hand; I can feel the floor move under my feet as I dance with my Jean Seberg lookalike, the bouncing boards and rafters loosing plaster from the ceiling below onto the roof of the Stones' parked van, inside which Ian Stewart is trying to grab some sleep before driving the band back to their West London flat.

The above was from www.rocksbackpages.com - a great site and recommended by InTouchRadio.net:

Read hundreds more Rolling Stones interviews and reviews at www.rocksbackpages.com. Over 14,000 articles by the greatest writers from the finest rock publications of the last 40 years.

If you have information such as above please email me: info@intouchradio.net

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ITR - InTouchRadio.net Welcomes Dan Barrett Broadband On-Site Specialist - ITR-UK

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net
with Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche

Dan Barrett
ITR - Broadband On-Site Specialist

InTouchRadio.net

Welcomes

Dan Barrett

Broadband On-Site Specialist

InTouchRadio.net (ITR) has a new family member. Dan Barrett has offered his, very kind, services to ITR in field situations or at festivals.

Dan comes from a family involvement in communications and is trained in all kinds of Broadband services including on-site and satellite connectivity.

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This will be invaluable to outside link ups not only for ITR but for those Festivals and On-Site situations.

After our own issues, due to location, still ongoing it is a relief to have someone with the understanding of remote and isolated placements.

Dan believes in the integrity and ethos of InTouchRadio being a co-operative collective, not corporate selective bringing our World's peoples together as One Family.

I look forward to our working together in the near future - if you see either Dan or me at the Festivals come on over and say hello.

Michael Dixon
ITR - UK

Michael Dixon
Founder of InTouchRadio.net

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ITR - Pictures - Sunrise Celebration 2009 - Michael Dixon - ITR-UK

Michael Dixon - Founder InTouchRadio.net
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Sunrise Celebration

2009

Pictures Now Up

Sunrise Celebration Gate
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©
2009

Hi Everyone

Sorry for the delay but mucho muchness going on here with Videos - Audios - Photo-ohs to get together and so many other things coming in from around this beautiful world of ours.

Sunrise Kids
Photo - Michael Dixon - ITR
©
2009

Here's the link to see some of the Sunrise Celebration 2009 Pics taken mostly by yours truly - hope you enjoy them.

Sleepy Time Girl
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©
2009

http://picasaweb.google.com/kmichaeldixon/InTouchRadioNetPhotosSUNRISECELEBRATION2009#

Umbrella & Top Hat High Party Time
Photo - Michael Dixon - ITR
©
2009

Well the UK Festival Season is well under way now with Isle of Wight now behind and next week the famous Glastonbury Festival (may still be going but difficult this year - can't leap over the fence like we used to back then when festivals were free and so was our love...

Two Stars (Centre) of Bare Sole Sunrise Movie
Photo - Michael Dixon - ITR
©
2009

Today like most things money raises its head and what with the anal restrictions that Health and Safety cling too - well sure you all know what I mean. We have to be safe for sure but there's safe and there's safe.

Love Hugs Sunrise
Photo - Michael Dixon - ITR
©
2009

But hold your seat belt there's Bestival coming up down in Dorset and there's the other favourite of mine Big Green Gathering - one of the largest green festivals and like Sunrise a family safe, I like to call it, festival.

Chai Wallah Main Stage
Photo - Michael Dixon - ITR
©
2009

Now I'm definately up for BGG and will be doing my best to be there and if you're making it please come over and say hello and let's keep InTouch - that's the ethos of InTouchRadio.net - a One World Family keeping very much InTouch.

Horn Blower - Chai Wallah Main Stage
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I may, if I can, come down to Dorset - finances what they are and so on like all of us but never say never.

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Hope to see some of you through this wonderful summer wherever we end up be nice if it was together.

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Enjoy life and look out for one another and hope you enjoy the pics on the above link.

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Drop me a mail - let me know how things are in your part of the world, let's spread the word and keep it in the family.

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ITR - Heal The Last Stand - The Secret from Wrexham, Wales - Michael Dixon ITR - UK

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A few words about Heal The Last Stand from Michael Dixon:

I first met Joey Dickenson at Glastonbury (Childrens') Festival in 2007, Joey was working on model steam boats and persuaded me to buy a green steam boat with its candle burner fuel supply. Joey has a magnetic personality and is a beautiful soul. I felt I had known him forever, I would go as far as to say he radiates a pure energy and lifts all those around him.

Joey kept in contact and although we have not met since 2007 I get his regular updates and was very pleased to receive his first tracks. I did not even know that Joey was in a band when we first met and I was not sure what to expect but his enthusiasm was such that I subconsciously knew it would be good.

I did not expect, when he told me that it had been produced in his bedroom, that it would be so good. I played those tracks and I found something new each time.

Heal the Last Stand was a surprise I could not have expected but my expectation is now such that I am looking forward to receiving the new album and meeting up again soon with Joey and the other members of this Welsh secret but then again - isn't it always true that Wales produces some of the best music and vocalists that Great Britain has ever produced.

I recommend you get in touch with Heal the Last Stand and get yourself a copy.

Thoroughly recommended.

Michael Dixon
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Heal The Last Stand

Heal the Last Stand

are:

Thom Bithell - Vocals/Guitar/Harmonica

Joey Dickenson - Vocals/Guitar

Laura Dickenson - Vocals/Guitar/Percussion

Stan Dickenson - Vocals/Piano

Brief Biography: Established: 2007, WREXHAM, WALES.

Heal The Last Stand have a refreshing positive outlook.
Since their inception just over a year ago, these guys have been bringing good vibrations into the world, with their "Ridiculously Beautiful" harmonies.
The youngest 3 siblings of the Dickenson family have joined forces with friend Thom Bithell, to make music with heart and soul. Their stage presence, full of joy and gratitude, makes Heal' shows a profoundly memorable experience.
Expect euphoric harmonies and profound sentiments, without a trace of heartache, pain or sorrow anywhere in sight.

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News

As we speak Heal the Last Stand are huddled round their mother's Steinway at the Dickenson family home, working with producer Steve Nicholls (Camera), on 13 songs that will become “What Love is...” the current working title of their debut album.

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Having been invited back to play at Glastonbury Festival this year, Heal the Last Stand will be playing a special warm-up show at Yales Cafe Bar, Friday 19^th June, with The Roseville Band; fellow Wrexham musicians who also have the privilege of playing at the legendary festival.

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Heal' have also entered a video for their song 1, into a competition to open the main stage at this year's Green Man Festival in the Brecon Beacons. If you would like to help you can by following these simple steps:

Step 1: Visit www.greenman.net Step 2 : Register to vote in the GREEN POLL
Step 3 : Retrieve your password from your e-mail account
Step 4 : Vote for Heal the last stand and leave a comment
Step 5 : Repeat Step 4 Whenever you are online (it's possible to vote every 24 hours)
Step 6 : Encourage others to do the same

The video was recorded live at Festa de la Pau, Barcelona during their tour in May '09.

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Finally, Heal' are proud to announce a very special headline show at Bellevue Park, Friday 3^rd July. This will be an evening concert in the bandstand from 7pm-9pm, all are welcome and admission is free. The band hopes that their debut album will be available at this show; it will certainly serve as an album preview.

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Fine Details:

Glastonbury Warm-Up Show / Friday 19^th June / Yales Cafe Bar, Hill Street, Wrexham / Doors 7.30pm-10pm / Admission £2

Line-Up: Heal the Last Stand / The Roseville Band / Shane Keely (Dublin) / Man of Straw (Edinburgh)

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Green Man Festival, 21-23 August. Glanusk Park Estate, Brecon Beacons.

Competition info:

Round 1 - Voting closes at midnight on June 28 and the top 20 bands with the most votes go through to…

Round 2 - Voting closes at midnight on July 12 and the top 6 bands with the most votes go through to…

Grand Final - A live Battle of the Bands contest in London on July 23 to find one lucky winner to open Green Man 2009, judged by a panel of music industry experts.

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An Evening with Heal the Last Stand / Friday 3^rd July / the Bandstand, Bellevue Park, Bellevue Road, Wrexham. 7pm-9pm / Admission FREE

Line-Up: Heal the Last Stand

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Band Contact Details:

Laura # 07968114343

healthelaststand@gmail.com www.myspace.com/healthelaststand

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ITR - Update on Actor David Carradine - Pip Reynolds ITR West Coast Team USA

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David Carradine

Carradine Family Expert:

David's Death Not a Suicide

(E! Online)

Gina Serpe Gina Serpe

Los Angeles (E! Online) – David Carradine's family was right all along: The actor's death was not the result of suicide.

In a video statement today, brothers Keith and Robert Carradine announced that Dr. Michael Baden, the forensics expert they independently hired to carry out a second autopsy on the actor, determined that their sibling did not take his own life.

"The autopsy findings and the evidence thus far available demonstrate that Mr. Carradine's death was not the result of suicide," Baden said.

The chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Police conducted the autopsy in California, after the body arrived from Bangkok earlier this week.

An initial postmortem was done in Thailand, but officials there said the results would not be back for one or two more weeks.

In their statement, the brothers of the late 72-year-old thanked fans for support during what has been a "profoundly painful time."

"First of all, we would like to thank everyone for their heartfelt expressions of love and sympathy for what we are going through," said Keith Carradine.

"Until we have all of the pending results of the investigation we respectfully ask that we be allowed to lay our beloved brother, husband and father, grandfather and great-grandfather to rest in peace and with dignity," Robert added.

They also thanked both Thai and U.S. authorities who have been working in conjunction on investigating Carradine's mysterious death.

The Kill Bill star was found dead in his luxury hotel room exactly one week ago. Police said the actor was hanging naked in his closet, a rope tied to his neck and genitals, leading to the suspicion that his death may have been the accidental result of autoerotic asphyxiation.

No funeral arrangements have yet been announced.

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ITR - Further Info Re Hope Album from Fluid Audio - Green Album - ITR - UK

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'Hope'

Fluid Audio

Just received with reference to the last Blog 'Hope' Album. Not only is 50% going to help homeless street children but the album has many more merits - read on...

Michael

The Etchical Vision Behind The Album:

The CD is ISO14001 certified, all paper & card used is FSC certified, all produced by a Carbon Zero CD
manufacturing company, via the award-winning CO2 Balance. The scientific data to calculate the
embedded carbon emissions of the CD/Packaging, and offset an equivalent amount of CO2 by investing
in 100% additional carbon-offsetting schemes with immediate & many secondary benefits to
communities that simply would not happen unless we paid for them. The premises used to create the
CD/Packaging is also 100% carbon neutral and powered with green electricity, and business travel
emissions are also offset.

Eco-conscious disc manufacturing:

ISO 14000 & 14001 compliant CD manufacturing
100% Re-use of scrap polycarbonate salvaged from CD & DVD replication

Eco-conscious printing:

Sourcing of paper stock from FSC Compliant (Forestry Stewardship Council) mills and printers.
Wood fibre procured within the Sustainable Forest Initiative guidelines: every acre harvested is
reforested - 400 Million tree seedlings planted each year.
Paper products are typically recyclable, compost-able, and under the right conditions biodegradable.
No wood from old-growth or endangered forests.
Vegetable based inks.
100% alcohol-free printing.
No Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from inks or coatings, and use of quick dry glues with
Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) being eliminated.
Collection and recycling of paperboard, inks, coatings and other waste from printing processes.
60,000 tons of paper and board shipped from one supplier alone to recycler in one year.

Treat This CD With Care!

More info and purchase options here

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ITR - Hope Album by Fluid Audio 50% of Sales Go to Homeless Street Kids - ITR - UK

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Just in and we have been asked to help, of course we're happy to be of any help on a project like this. Now how about you doing a little bit too.

Michael
ITR - UK

We are pleased to announce that 'Hope' is now available in Digipak format from the Fluid Audio web site.
www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Digital release will follow on 29th June available in all formats from the Fluid Audio digital store.

Below is a link that will allow you to download a full press release which includes comments from the artists involved in the project, samples of all the tracks from the album, artwork and an unreleased exclusive remix of 'Forever' by Ishq.

Press Kit Download:
www.box.net/shared/rl39lt97s4

We thank you for your patience and support and hope that you will enjoy the album.
A big thanks goes out to all the artists involved in the project, and to those that helped make the dream come alive x

Genre: Electroacoustic, Electronic, Ambient
Label: Fluid Audio
Format: CD Digipak/Booklet, Digital
Reference Number: FluidAudio 001
EAN Code: 3760180500178
Mastering: Vincent Villuis - Ultimae Studios
Release Date:
Digipak - 8th June 2009
Digital - 29th June 2009

Fluid Audio kick starts it’s catalogue with ‘Hope’, a compilation sprawling across 13 tracks from established artists, Digitonal, Hol Baumann, Ishq, Bersarin Quartet and James Murray, as well as up and coming producers, Field Rotation, Iambic, Snakestyle, Playb, Halogen and Ben Beiny.

As suggested by its title, ‘Hope’, embodies a concept of positivity and the alleviation of strife “through the creative translation of emotion into sounds sent to soothe [and] images formed to inspire”. Artists were asked to create compositions that reflected their interpretation of the term Hope, producing varied yet cohesive results with a profound resonance. 50% of the profits are donated to Toybox, a charity providing aid, shelter and support for homeless children in Latin America, the majority of which are estimated a life expectancy of around four years on the street.

Coupling all of this with the CD’s bespoke artwork and carbon neutral manufacture provides a consumable and tangible product that serves to aid a constructive cause through the medium of music.

Although we are living in a world of injustice - where the rich get richer, while those in need get left behind - there is often an inherent hope in those who suffer the most. Where people have the least they value more, the simple things that others take for granted. While some are disconnected from the true meaning of life, there are others who appreciate the beauty and awe of the world and what is has to offer. In these souls is a spark of light that no corrupt power can extinguish. Despite the negativity that we are all faced with in life, the human spirit can always overcome. Whether this is in the innocent laughter of a child, the compassion shown from one suffering human being to another, or through the creative translation of emotion into sound, the joy of life is communicated all around us - we need only be willing to open our hearts to it.

Track List:

1.Forever - Ishq
2.Hopeful - Snakestyle
3.Regenzeit - Field Rotation
4.Fingersand - James Murray
5.Turn The Seasons - Iambic
6.Was uns Bleibt - Bersarin Quartett
7.Acoustics Of The Piano - Playb
8.Sunriser - Halogen
9.Start Again - Ben Beiny
10.Flags - Iambic
11.We Three - Digitonal
12.Time To Change - Hol Baumann
13.A Part Of You - Ben Beiny (Digipak bonus track)

What The Artists Say:

Iambic:

My two tracks, Flags and Turn the Seasons, were intended to give the listener a blank canvass to paint their emotions of Hope on. It occurred to me before writing the tunes that each individual lives in hope for some thing or other, hope is what prevents many peoples lives from becoming mundane, or keeps them hanging on when times are tough. So my two tunes - both being quite different - represent each aspect of Hope.

Playb:

When I was asked to contribute to this compilation it quickly came to my mind to remix 'Acoustics Of The Piano' because of the special circumstances with which it was created. I was experiencing hard times, the kind when you feel that there is no way out though you cling to some kind of hope regardless of how difficult things get. Children who are born in disadvantaged situations stir up so much admiration within me. I see sadness in their eyes but at the same time a passion to live. I am proud to be associated with this project, and proves that music is a tool to make people aware of social injustice.

Field Rotation:

Regenzeit (German for rainy season) describes the meaning of rain from different points of view. In the temperate zone of the earth rain is part of the daily weather, nothing special. For millions of people in tropical and subtropical regions rain gives hope – the hope for a better life after the aridity, an efficient harvest and the end of starvation, the hope for enough rain to refill the fountains and riverbeds to survive the following dry season. Regenzeit is about all the people who pray and hope for rain.

Ishq:

Hope for me rests in a belief and remembrance that we are all eternal beings and live forever. When we die we do not - we awake into a new world and all we take with us is the love and essence of ourselves whether positive or negative. The false prophecy we call death is simply that - one of the root causes of mankind's drive toward destructive selfish materialism and consumption. To 'take', 'have', 'be', 'want' NOW.....at the expense of others with no consideration for the whole or the future or the planet is the result of a hopeless belief in death which motivates many to build castles made of sand and seek unnecessary levels of wealth and power so in turn they may feel 'protected' from death. Fear fundamentally of death make humans greedy. Greed - the opposite from sharing is a result of a hopeless belief in death deep within us and breed into us and taught to us. We are told and taught a lie from birth....Fear creates greed which results in many living lives of hopelessness as others live like kings.

My hope is people will remember more 'before' this life and remember the eternal self which lives forever
as this will help free us from the slavery of materialism and the selfishness which misleads us. We can build a world of equality where we all share and we all profit and all rise as one.
Its very simple - Share and we create HOPE and love. HOPE and faith in eternity leads to us to want for nothing more than to help others and so we may all evolve.
I hope we eventually realise this on earth and share and remember who we really are when the body is left behind.

Snakestyle:

With the music I make, I try to create something that gently catches your attention, hypnotises you, helps you think, and takes you to a place where you feel reassured. It's great that there are people out there who genuinely believe in music and its ability to give people hope and make a difference. It inspires me to keep going, to keep doing what i do, and I hope that people find a sense of hope while listening to this project. Best wishes. Snakestyle

Some Facts:

An estimated 40 million children live on the streets of Latin America's densely populated cities (unicef).

Observers from our partner in Guatemala say that street children there have a life expectancy of around four years on the street.

Unicef reported in 2004 that in Guatemala in the first 10 months of 2002, gangs or security forces killed 408 children and youths, but most street children were killed by drive by shootings.

THINK ABOUT IT!

More about Toybox Charity here

wwww.fluidaudio.co.uk

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ITR - One Nation Under A Groove on Afghanistan Radio Bringing Peace - ITR - Denmark

Henrik Andersen of One Nation Under A Groove
ITR Denmark

Press release:
June 2009
Band:

Andersen

'One Nation Under A Groove'

Danish band played on Afghan radio station.

The Danish band “One Nation Under A Groove” has experienced something unique. An Afghan radio station has played songs from their debut album ”Guardian Angel”. Perhaps the songs are still on air throughout Afghanistan

1st June 2009 the Danish band “One Nation Under A Groove” with lead singer Henrik Andersen received a mail from Edwin Pinaroc, Radio Editor-in-chief, CJPOTF, HQ ISAF, Kabul, Afghanistan:

”Hello Henrik, I am - right now - no longer in Afghanistan, but when I was there I did air some of your music on my radio station”. Canadian Pinaroc works at ISAFs radio station in Kabul. (ISAF: International Security Assistance Force)

This radio station is trying to reach the Afghans via information in English and Pashtu. The radio produces news and often plays Afghan pop and Bollywood-music from India; Indian music is very popular in Afghanistan. Due to the Indian elements in the music produced by One Nation Under A Groove (sitar and the Indian rhythmic singing; ”Konnakol”), the radio editor-in-chief Edwin Pinaroc has chosen to play several songs from the Danes debut album ”Guardian Angel”, an album with English lyrics.

“It’s difficult to get more information from Afghanistan right now, so we don’t know how the Afghans have responded to our music. But we’re the first Danes, singing in English, who have been on air in Afghan radio”, says lead singer and composer Henrik Andersen.

Contact via the Danish Defence Command.

The producer of the band, Morten Buschmann, has been working for the Danish Defence Command in Copenhagen as a senior journalist and editor.

“Via his job Morten found the address and sent our album to Edwin Pinaroc. We don’t know whether ISAF still plays our songs because it’s difficult to get in touch with Kabul. But we’re extremely happy. And, we do hope that our music, somehow, can build a peaceful cultural bridge between Denmark and Afghanistan. This is our small contribution to peace in the area”, says Henrik Andersen. For the time being, Denmark has approximately 500 soldiers in the south of Afghanistan, the province of Helmand.

Indie Indian western world pop One Nation Under A Groove released their debut album ”Guardian Angel” on 18th July 2008. Henrik Andersen lives in Copenhagen and plays guitar, sitar, veena, sings the leadvokal, human beatbox and the Indian vocal rhythms "Konnakol"; a rhythmic style of singing without words. The band calls it a ”new and different kind of rap”. The 12 songs are soul/triphop/pop/world music with lyrics in English.

One Nation Under A Groove has many thousand fans on My Space, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and their website: www.onenation.dk.

Right now One Nation Under A Groove is recording their second album, and meanwhile, ”Guardian Angel” is played on many radio stations throughout the world –USA, UK, Netherland, Belgium, India, Germany, Brazil, Schwitzerland, Bhutan (!) and, now, in Afghanistan, too.

One Nation Under A Groove is:
Henrik Andersen: Lead singer, guitarist.
Morten Buschmann: Drums, producer.
Flemming Pedersen: Keyboards.

Band homepage: www.onenation.dk
(Lots of photos – for free downloading)
Music – six songs from ”Guardian Angel”:
www.myspace.com/henrikandersenkingofnothing

Love and peace,
Henrik Andersen
&
Morten Buschmann

Falkoner Allé 24, 2. th.
2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Mobile: +45 26 15 44 74
Mail: Buschmann@webspeed.dk

Michael Dixon ITR - UK Comments:
I was lucky enough to have a copy of One Nation Under A Groove's album 'Guardian Angel' - my first listen was in the bath under headphones - as I listened I fell into a half-sleep drifting in and out of a world where Indian overtones blended seamlessly with Western cultural imagery and linking Western instruments with those of a culture that preceeds our modern knowingness. I love the blends that Henrik has managed to bring together and with the knowledge of his recent trips to India collecting his music as a journeyer not only from that Continent but from all the other global strategic points that compass our world I am looking forward to the new album that is nearing completion and I can only say experience One Nation Under A Groove and enjoy, like I did, that dreamy bath time first listen. When I am listening to music that comes in from around the world I often put on the headphones and drift off to sleep - in the morning I connect with that sub-conscious self that never sleeps and I have another clarity at a deeper level. If you get 'InTouch' with Henrik or Morten please say that you connected through InTouchRadio.net it all helps in the thread of contacts that the InTouchRadio.net global family promotes - a One World Family. Love Michael x

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ITR - Help Needed to Stop DeForestation Amazon Rain Forest - Avaaz - InTouchRadio.net UK - GLOBAL

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The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.

These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth -- Let's stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence

More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs. Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits to local people and preserving the environment in developing countries - which is why indigenous groups are asking for internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.

For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the Amazon the "lungs of the planet" - breathing in the carbon emissions that cause global warming and producing oxygen).

Peru's government is clashing violently with indigenous groups protesting the rapid devastation of the Amazon rainforest by mining, oil and logging companies. The forest is a global treasure - let's stand with the protesters and sign the petition to President Garcia to stop the violence and save the Amazon:

Sign the Petition on this link below

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/?cl=250570722&v=3461

The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we can't afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from all parties.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence

In solidarity,

Luis, Paula, Alice, Ricken, Graziela, Ben, Brett, Iain, Pascal, Raj, Taren and the entire Avaaz team.

Sources:

Civilians and police killed: Human rights lawyers accuse the government of a cover-up, BBC, 10 June:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092453.stm

Civil Society Condemns Massacre of Indigenous People in Peru, 8 June:
http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/765/en/global_witness_condems_violence_in_peru

On Peru's rift over economic policy and the controversial free trade agreement with the US , Reuters, 9 June:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09374943

Research Article: Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples, M. Finer et al:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002932

Oil companies ‘should withdraw’ as Peru ‘faces its Tiananmen’, Survival International, 8 June:
http://www.survival-international.org/news/4640

Peru's Amazon oil deals denounced, BBC News, 3 February:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6326741.stm

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Thank you for signing this petition urging the Peruvian government to engage in a peaceful and honest dialogue with indigenous people to end the conflict, secure their rights and save the Amazon.

Please help us build a bold number of signatures. Forward the following link to all your friends and family!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/97.php?cl_tta_sign=380d32535ff7bcdade0b0ee111ed50fe

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Dear friends,

The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.

Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded: sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes, and labelling the protesters as terrorists.

These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to protect our earth -- Let's stand with them and call on President Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver it to the government on our behalf.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/97.php?cl_tta_sign=380d32535ff7bcdade0b0ee111ed50fe

More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs. Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits to local people and preserving the environment in developing countries - which is why indigenous groups are asking for internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.

For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the Amazon the "lungs of the planet" - breathing in the carbon emissions that cause global warming and producing oxygen).

The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we can't afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from all parties.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/97.php?cl_tta_sign=380d32535ff7bcdade0b0ee111ed50fe

In solidarity,

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Sources:

# Civilians and police killed: Human rights lawyers accuse the government of a cover-up, BBC, 10 June:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092453.stm

# Civil Society Condemns Massacre of Indigenous People in Peru, 8 June:
http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/765/en/global_witness_condems_violence_in_peru

# On Peru's rift over economic policy and the controversial free trade agreement with the US , Reuters, 9 June:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09374943

# Research Article: Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples, M. Finer et al:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002932

# Oil companies ‘should withdraw’ as Peru ‘faces its Tiananmen’, Survival International, 8 June:
http://www.survival-international.org/news/4640

# Peru's Amazon oil deals denounced, BBC News, 3 February:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6326741.stm

# Amazon Watch website:
http://www.amazonwatch.org/


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ITR - PLEASE TAKE ACTION BY ASKING YOUR MP TO SIGN HOUSE OF COMMONS EARLY DAY MOTION (EDM) No 1573.

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Further to the previous Blog here is extra information just sent in...

PLEASE TAKE ACTION BY ASKING YOUR MP TO SIGN HOUSE OF COMMONS EARLY DAY MOTION (EDM) No 1573.

Dear Local Works supporter,

The Sustainable Communities Act is going from strength-to-strength. One-in-three of English Councils have resolved to use it, representing 50% of the population. This is brilliant and a clear example of how people power can make a real difference.

Following the MPs' expenses scandal over the past three weeks it has become undeniable that our national political system is in a mess. .A mess that could lead to more centralisation, and the possible weakening of the Sustainable Communties Act: or a mess that could lead to more power for local commumnties and the strengthening of the Act. I am sure you will want the latter: that means that it is citizens everywhere who can get us out of this mess - not politicians..

As you may have heard, Gordon Brown is making an announcement today about constitutional reform. What he is proposing sounds like just more of the same: vague promises and with Gordon Brown himself having the final say.

THE WESTMINSTER VILLAGE CANNOT SAVE US

This is a textbook example of how not to sort out the mess that the UK's political system has got itself into. The Westminster Village and party politics can't save us – it is the Westminster Village that got us into this situation in the first place. Does Gordon Brown seriously believe that the solution is just yet more consultation?

There is a better way. Just as the Sustainable Communities Act requires councils to establish community panels to make proposals, Parliament could set up a Citizens' Convention to look into how to make our political system more accountable and ethical and give the final say to the public. Like a jury, a Citizens' Convention would consist of ordinary members of the public. It would be independent of government. Protected by statute, the process couldn't be halted by a general election.

Fortunately a number of MPs across the political spectrum do get it. On Monday, Labour MP Martin Caton – supported by a cross-party group of MPs – tabled the Citizens' Convention (Accountability and Ethics) Bill[1]. This would set up a Citizens' Convention and would require Parliament to respond to its proposals. It would be make recommendations on, among other things:

• How to bring elected representatives to book when they step out of line;
• How to change the way in which Parliament is run to ensure that the government is properly held to account;
• Whether to change our electoral system, and how.

The Convention – or 5% of the public – could insist on a referendum if any of its proposals were rejected. The public would have the final say.

The Citizens' Convention Bill could become law in a matter of weeks if the party leaders agreed to give it parliamentary time. We just need to convince them.

TAKE ACTION TODAY!

It is crucial we make this happen. Following the expenses scandal, the UK's political system has never been more discredited. More people are disengaged with politics than ever. All the party leaders now say they accept that we need to open up our political system. These are fine words, but what we need now is action.

That's why I'm asking you to write to your MP right away and ask them to:

• Support the “Citizens Convention (Accountability and Ethics) Bill” by signing Early Day Motion 1573;
• Urge their Party Leader to take steps to enable it to become law in this session of Parliament; and
• In the interests of transparency and clarity, to let you know whether they will support this Bill.

(An “Early Day Motion” is a sort of petition which MPs can sign to publicly express their opinion. They rarely get debated but they play a crucial role in demonstrating how strongly MPs feel about a certain issue).

To make it easy for you, our friends at 38 Degrees have created this handy tool to help you write to your MP in a matter of minutes. Simply type in your post code, personalise the standard letter (including your own words will make it much more effective) and off it goes.

By spending just five minutes doing this today, you will make a big difference. With the Sustainable Communities Act you have already proven that people power can make a big difference. The political class know they are on the ropes at the moment. We have never had a better chance to get real reform.

Best wishes,

Steve Shaw

Local Works

PS Please send any responses you get from your MP to alex.runswick@unlockdemocracy.org.uk or (if they write by post): Alex Runswick, 6 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF

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ITR - We Need A Change UK & GLOBAL - ITR - UK

We Need A Change

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Dear friends

British politics is broken.

Politicians have got themselves into a mess and can't be trusted to sort it out.

That's why I've just written to my MP calling for them to support the Citizens' Convention (Accountability and Ethics) Bill.

If made law, this Bill would set up a panel of ordinary people - like a jury - to decide how parliament and government can be made more accountable and ethical. You should write to your MP too:

[URL HERE]

This isn't about yet another government consultation - the Bill would stop MPs from being able to just ignore the Citizens' Conventions' conclusions.

Let's make this happen.

Thanks!



Michael Dixon

Although the ethos of ITR is not to have a side to any information that we receive from around the world. I'm concerned with the theatre that British Politics have been performing recently and I'm sure these theatricals, for that is all we can call them, is replicated in most other countries. Currently there are astrological aspects that are affecting, shaking the foundations of which our modern world is built upon, and from what I gather this is going to be effective for some time to come. It will rock those foundations and bring many of those foundations tumbling down, this has been clearly seen with the fall of the banks and other monetary institutions - soon, I'm sure we'll see the end of the stranglehold of the powers that be - our own politicians of all parties have been exposed and the mayhem that is causes, I feel, are for the best. But this has a charge; the loss of jobs and the closure of many worrkplaces which some of us were foretelling 3 years ago. No change comes without some disturbance of the environment in which we exist. As we see things that we no longer agree with we should have the right to say no and be heard. The blog that has been sent over appears to be a way forward and maybe we should all now say no to those things we disagree with and to those changes that are forced on us without our control, wishes or permission. What we decide to do here can be done in those other countries around this world of ours - we have rights and our rights should and must be heard - this is democrasy. Don't forget to let me hear from you around the world with your input and your information that can be shared with each other.

Some useful links to follow:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2007/ukpga_20070023_en_1

http://www.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/?page_id=537

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ITR - Actor David Carradine Found Dead in Bangkok from Pip Reynolds ITR USA

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Actor David Carradine

Found Dead in Bangkok

By GRANT PECK,
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BANGKOK – Much like the character that made him famous, David Carradine was always seeking, both spiritually and professionally, his life forever intertwined with the Shaolin priest he played in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu."
Just as the character, Kwai Chang Caine, roamed the 19th Century American West, Carradine spent his latter years searching for the path to Hollywood stardom, accepting low-budget roles while pursuing interests in Asian herbs, exercise and philosophy, and making instructional videos on tai chi and other martial arts.
Carradine was found dead Thursday in Thailand. The 72-year-old actor appeared to have hanged himself in a suite at the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel, said Lt. Teerapop Luanseng, the officer responsible for investigating the death.
"I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet," Teerapop said. He said police were investigating and suspected suicide, though one of his managers questioned that theory.
"All we can say is, we know David would never have committed suicide," said Tiffany Smith, of Binder & Associates, his management company. "We're just waiting for them to finish the investigation and find out what really happened. He really appreciated everything life has to give ... and that's not something David would ever do to himself."
Carradine had flown to Thailand last week and began work on "Stretch" two days before his death, Smith said. He had several other projects lined up after the action film, which was being directed by Charles De Meaux with Carradine in the lead.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday.
"I was deeply saddened by the news of David Carradine's passing," said director Martin Scorcese. "We met when we made 'Boxcar Bertha' together, almost 40 years ago. I have very fond memories of our time together on that picture and on 'Mean Streets,' where he agreed to do a brief cameo."
Carradine came from an acting family. His father, John, made a career playing creepy, eccentric characters in film and on stage. Half-brothers Keith, Robert and Bruce also became actors, and actress Martha Plimpton is Keith Carradine's daughter.
"My Uncle David was a brilliantly talented, fiercely intelligent and generous man. He was the nexus of our family in so many ways, and drew us together over the years and kept us connected," Plimpton said Thursday.
Carradine was "in good spirits" when he left the U.S. for Thailand on May 29 to work on "Stretch," Smith said.
"David was excited to do it and excited to be a part of it," she said by phone from Beverly Hills.
Filming began Tuesday, she said, adding that the crew was devastated by Carradine's death and did not wish to speak publicly about it for the time being.
The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid Thursday morning. It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a curtain cord and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.
Police said Carradine's body was taken to a hospital for an autopsy that would be done Friday.
Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. One of his early film roles was as folk singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic, "Bound for Glory."
But he was best known for "Kung Fu," which aired from 1972-75.
Carradine, a martial arts practitioner himself, played Caine, an orphan who was raised by Shaolin monks and fled China after killing the emperor's nephew in retaliation for the murder of his kung fu master.
Pursued by revenge assassins from China, Caine wanders the American West in search of his half-brother Danny. His conscience forces him to fight injustice wherever he encounters it, fueled by flashbacks to his training in which his master famously refers to him as "Grasshopper."
Carradine left after three seasons, saying the show had started to repeat itself.
"I wasn't like a TV star in those days. I was like a rock 'n' roll star," Carradine said in an interview with Associated Press Radio in 1996. "It was a phenomenon kind of thing. ... It was very special."
Actor Rainn Wilson, star of TV's "The Office," said on Twitter: "R.I.P. David Carradine. You were a true hero to so many of us children of the 70s. We'll miss you, Kwai Chang Caine."
Carradine reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues."
He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill." Bill, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's "Kill Bill — Vol. 1." In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates, including Bill.
In "Kill Bill — Vol. 2," released in 2004, Thurman's character catches up to Bill. The role brought Carradine a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor.
Bill was a complete contrast to Caine, the soft-spoken refugee serenely spreading wisdom and battling bad guys in the Old West.
"David's always been kind of a seeker of knowledge and of wisdom in his own inimitable way," Keith Carradine, said in a 1995 interview.
After "Kung Fu," Carradine starred in the 1975 cult flick "Death Race 2000." He starred with Liv Ullmann in Bergman's "The Serpent's Egg" in 1977 and with his brothers in the 1980 Western "The Long Riders." But after the early 1980s, he spent two decades doing mostly low-budget films.
Tarantino's films changed that.
"All I've ever needed since I more or less retired from studio films a couple of decades ago ... is just to be in one," Carradine told The Associated Press in 2004.
"There isn't anything that Anthony Hopkins or Clint Eastwood or Sean Connery or any of those old guys are doing that I couldn't do," he said. "All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin's courage to take and put me in the spotlight."
In the 2004 interview, Carradine talked candidly about his past boozing and narcotics use, but said he had put all that behind him and stuck to coffee and cigarettes.
"You're probably witnessing the last time I will ever answer those questions," Carradine said. "Because this is a regeneration. It is a renaissance. It is the start of a new career for me.
"It's time to do nothing but look forward."
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Associated Press writer Polly Anderson and Entertainment Writers Erin Carlson and Jake Coyle in New York and David Germain in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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ITR - The Green Tara Gathering 5-6-7 June 2009 meet Lama Ahbay Rinpoche

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The Green Tara Gathering 5-6-7 June 2009

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I would like to add a few words to the following with reference to The Green Tara Gathering on the 5 - 6 - 7th of June. I met Lama Ahbay Rinpoche at the Sunrise Celebration Festival last weekend and I can only say to you go and meet this very special being.

Michael & Lama Ahbay Rinpoche at Sunrise Festival

I was interviewing and presenting with the media at Sunrise and had been talking to Sarah (of this Blog) when Lama Ahbay arrived - the feeling I had as we spoke was, for me, one of those very special moments and I felt honoured to have met him. His mission is so important to the survival and rebirth of the Tibetan nation please go and give your support. Michael Dixon

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This Website Is Dedicated With Love To My Wonderful Friend Geshe Lama Ahbay Tulku Jigme Thupton Tender Rinpoche, A Truly Wonderful Human Being.

Lama Ahbay Rinpoche became a monk when he was 7yrs old, he left his parents to live in a monastery far,

far away, without shedding a tear or clinging to his mother, his path and mission were clear before him.

His last incarnation was still fresh behind him, in his previous incarnation his parents had passed away

while he was young and he went to live in a cave, where he practiced his religious studies and performed

his Puja's (rituals), as he grew up he became famous for his supernatural powers, the animals of the forest, the

deer and the monkeys would come to him and people from all walks of life would seek him out for a blessing,

he lived like this in the cave for a long time, like our own beloved Merlin.

When he was about 30yrs old the local people who loved him thought it was a shame the way the Holy Man was living,

so together they built The Yiga Choeling Monastery in Eastern Tibet,

on a steep mountain with spectacular views only accessible by foot, not even a donkey can get up there,

they carried every rock by hand to show their devotion, this was back in the early 1930s,

there was room for 25 monks to study there with the Holy Man and life was blissful

for about 25 years until that fateful day in 1959, other lamas had urged the Holy Man to flee

the coming invasion into exile, but he refused because he didn't want to leave his flock behind saying he would

follow them later, in 1959 the invading army arrived and destroyed the Yiga Choeling Monastery,

torturing and killing everyone they found, Monks, Nuns, Men, Women and Children were shown no mercy,

in spite of all the tragedies around him by some miracle the Holy Man survived and lived for many years

hidden in a small room giving secret teachings and tending to his flocks spiritual needs until he died aged 80,

the locals out of love for him rebuilt the Monastery again stone by stone ready for his return,

currently there are 9 monks living in the monastery, Lama Ahbay is responsible for all their needs

even though he cannot enter Tibet to visit them.

After the allotted time after the old Masters death 2 of the Holy Mans students who loved him very much,

Geshe Jampa Tenzin and Geshe Lobsang Choepal went in search of his next incarnation.

They searched in vain for many years, then one day they were visiting a monastery in India and

Geshe Jampa Tenzin was giving out sweets and chocolates to the young monks as was his habit,

when he met a 9yr old monk, he noticed a profound difference with this young monk,

something in his mind clicked as he recognized the soul of the old master in the eyes of this child,

he went to tell his friend about the incident and they wondered if it could really be true,

was their long search really over.

They went to see Shapa Choejay Rinpoche, a famous Oracle who ranks third in Geluk

(the path of compassion and wisdom).

When asked about the boy the Oracle replied he is the one but we better check with The Dalai Lama,

as it is a matter of such importance.

The Dalai Lama officially recognized him when he was 12 yrs old as Lama Ahbay Tulku Rinpoche The Third.

It is the tradition of the Tibetans that once a reincarnation is recognized he or she must complete

the same education as their previous incarnations before they continues their mission,

now nearly 25 years after The Dalai Lama officially recognized him he has attained the level of Geshe,

a Master of Tibetan philosophy and he is ready to continue his mission of founding monasteries

that will house, feed, cloth and educate refugee monks, the monks need to become refugees

because it is virtually impossible to become a monk inside

Tibet as it requires special permission from Chinese officials.

It is our mission to help him on his mission in every way we can.

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ITR - The Sun Shines at Sunrise Festival - Michael Dixon ITR - UK

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The Sun Shines at Sunrise Festival

After the floods of 08, Sunrise Festival needed a break this year both with the weather and with their finances and that’s just what they got. With temperatures reaching 26 degrees last weekend and a sell out on the gate the festival has now firmly rooted itself as one of the greenest and most chilled out events of the summer.

“We have all being praying for some decent weather and an event that worked for the start of the season, but we could never have imagined for it to go so perfectly. The thanks and praises we have received over the weekend has made all the hard work worthwhile and we would like to thank everyone who has kept the faith in Sunrise”, said Katherine Ritchie Sunrise Spokesperson.

With a smaller site and capacity this year on a beautiful organic farm in Somerset there was a feeling of intimacy and friendliness about the festival. I t was also kept spotlessly clean throughout the event and with the spacious, site wide compost toilets one of the most unpleasant experiences of festivals- the portaloo became unnecessary.

Highlights included the creative and fun vibe of the kids area where parents relaxed beside the central fire watching the rest of the festival happen while the kids were entertained for hours. The Sun worshippers planetarium was also a big hit where everyone was invited to have a look at the cloudless sky through the country’s largest mobile telescope. On Friday the Ethical fashion show got the proceedings off to a great start as dance troop ‘Mean Feet’ kept everyone laughing and interested in the beautiful ethical clothing.

On Sunday night the firewalk drew the crowds to the central circle and everyone enjoyed Jonathan Cainer‘s walk of glory across the coals. He also gave a talk on Sunday afternoon to a packed out Avalon Rising tent on last weekend’s rare astrological alignment of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron

On the music side of things Friday night was Dub Pistol night in Chai Wallahs and with a rocking, packed out venue the party atmosphere kicked off the weekend. On Saturday the Bays played into the small hours and many watched a beautiful sunrise on Sunday morning. On Sunday night it was the turn of Baka Beyond, who wound down the event with their mellow, heart opening, body moving beats.

“With Sunrise being a massive success we are now turning our sites to the team’s second event of the summer, Sunrise- Off Grid which takes place from 20^th to 23^rd August. We’re will be holding it on the same great site and it promises to have more of the Sunrise chilled out vibe, but even greener as it will be run totally on wind, solar and possibly hydro energy. The aim is to journey into deep exploration of what is happening with our planet and the present time and discover ways we can all make the change for a better future. With a strong family focus we want this to feel like it’s our personal crew party that everyone is invited to- old friends and new ones, community living is sunrise’s central ethos”.

To get your tickets for Off Grid visit the Sunrise website: www.sunrisecelebration.com or email info@sunrisecelebration.com

Editor’s notes: Katherine Ritchie

Sunrise Press Officer

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