Ecstasy
posted by Alp at Sunday, May 21, 2006
21 May 2006
About this
Something unusual was happening in SW Wales when I was a child – subcultures, social experiments, naked hippies dancing around maypoles. I'm researching a PhD project into remembrances of things past - how our sense of the past informs our sense of self. This enquiry presumes that the past is not fixed, rather it is partly constructed through a shared or collective consciousness, which is why I’m inviting you now to share your memories of certain events, moments, and ideas. A childhood in Wales gave a lot of us a unique experience and a lot of the ‘hippy’ kids, I think, have a wonderfully insightful way of perceiving and interacting with the world. But we also have a very different past from many of our peers, and some ‘site specific’ hang-ups! There were some amazingly off-the-wall characters around and some pretty weird shit happened. I’d like to know which bits you remember, in words and photos. Some of this stuff might be sensitive, so if you are posting photos or texts or relevant transcripts or notes or poems or songs (you could scan them or send them to me ‘snail-mail’ – I will be very careful) onto this weblog please be aware of that, and do so with an open mind.Previous Posts
- Culture clashes
- Commune
- Cults
- Alternative lifestyle
- Acid
- Glyneirw
- Morfa, Blaenffos
- Meigan Fair
- The Red Barn
- Gwernogle
1 Comments:
'As things progressed we soon became aware that living in South West Wales was not in fact a disadvantage, as we had originally perceived it. We thought this as we were largely cut off from the source of all coolness, which was London. This was where all the big name DJ’s came from, where all the well known clubs, record/clothes shops were, where all the best drugs could be found, and without a doubt, from where all the most exciting and ground breaking new music was originating – break beat hardcore, jungle, drum n bass, House and UK dance music like Soul II Soul and Rebel MC.
We soon found throngs of inner city dwellers venturing far far outside the comfort zone of city parameters into the depths of rural Wales, as not only was it full of hardcore nutty ravers, some traditionally hard headed Welsh folk, many immigrant far out hippie types like myself, all of us pretty practical when it came to handling strong narcotics and finding/assembling large scale parties in fields, barns, sand dunes, on hills, etc.
Personally I was a shining beacon for the rave scene in my area, living down a long track with a barn called ‘The Shed’ where my parents had been having hippie jams and parties since the 1960s, and where a P.A. /mixing desk/stage was already assembled and ready to rock…as were we!' (SJK, 2006)
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