Radio Gonzo

As I have mentioned before in these hallowed pages I have a love/hate relationship with anniversaries. I think if something matters to you, you should remember it all the time, not just on selective dates. But this is the 40th anniversary of the first Stonehenge Festival, the 30th anniversary of the last Stonehenge Festival and to break that run of glorious dates divisible by 10 it is the 39th anniversary of the death of Wally Hope. Who was Wally Hope? His real name was Phillip Russell and he was born in 1949. He was a friend and artistic collaborator of Penny Rimbaud and other members of the free house in Essex which later gave birth to the legendary anarcho-punks Crass. He was a member of a countercultural group in London called The Dwarves, who were described as being a Notting Hill version of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters or the Dutch Provo group who inspired the classic My White Bicycle. Here it should be pointed out that despite claims to the contrary, Provo – a Dutch anarchist group active in the