The Shed
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
2 Comments:
Does anyone remember the time that Giles made an entrance at a gig in the Shed with a chainsaw going, grabbed Scarf and pretended to saw him in half? (The actual saw bit was not attached).
I don't remember that - wish i did! But i do remember serving behind the food/drink counter at various gigs. Once i served a hells angel character who tried to run off with a Newcy-Brown that i'd handed him, without paying - i remember being indignant and trying to grab the bottle back, i like to think i got it! I'm guessing i would have been about 9 years old at the time. Thinking about it, could i sue my parents for child labour, let alone serving alcohol at god knows what hour? hmmmmm......
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