General talking of jujitsu jokes movies , music health and mind set ,fitness normal chit chat also looking at my record collection and living in my local community chatting to friends and the wife at some point and anyone who drops in at my secret matted training area The Ninja Loft . .
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"The world is full of gentlemen and savages. Rare is it to find a man who can be both."
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*The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast curious, half-forgotten, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and rare tales from the underground. *Join host Stephen Coates and a wide range of guests including musicians, artists, writers, activists and commentators in conversation. *Listen live on Saturdays at 9.00am on London’s premier independent station Soho Radio or via all major podcast providers: *The Bureau is now collected at The British Library Sound Archive
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In 1964 he was a working class hippie student crossing Haight Street, a road in San Francscso, when hit by a vision - and life as he knew it was over In 1994, he was a multi-millionaire new-age entrepeneur crossing Wilshire Boulevard, a road in Los Angeles, when hit by a car - and life as he knew it was over. In the years in between, along with the…
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The Strange and Beautiful World of Arthur Russell
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When musician ARTHUR RUSSELL died in 1992, at age 40, of complications related to HIV-AIDS, he was an obscure figure — though a legend in the 70s and 80s underground music scenes at downtown New York clubs such as The Loft and Paradise Garage. RICHARD KING, author of 'Travels Over Feeling'(Faber) a poignant and evocative visual chronology of Arthur…
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Forward the Revolution - with Spiral Tribe
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They helped inspire a whole generation of young ravers and lit the fuse for what was to blow up with Technival and Burning Man - as well as more mainstream festivals across Europe and the US - but their (counter)cultural contribution remains largely unacknowledged in their home country. Marc Angelo Harrison, one of the orginal founders of the peopl…
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*Whatever happened to the Greek Gods? if you are a teenager living half way up a 1970s tower block listening to Drill, should you even care? *On this epside we travel in time and space to Ancient Greece, the classical psycho-geographic birthplace of Western Culture (and therefore of counterculture), specfically to the mythic landscape of Epidavros …
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The Queer Life of Pop - with Jon Savage
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How Queer Culture Shaped Pop Culture "The 1972 version of David Bowie didn’t spring from nowhere. Although he refused to affiliate himself explicitly with gay liberation, he had found both artistic and social inspiration in the gay world, in particular the renewed sense of freedom and possibility that rippled through the British gay subculture in t…
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'Health care is a right, not a privilege' *Whilst many of his fellow physicians became business entrepeneurs rather than healers, Dr. Dave opened the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in 1967, ministering to the thousands of young people and hippies flocking to San Francisco during the Summer of Love. *Over the years, the patients using the clinic shifted…
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*"Punk taught us the future had only just begun” he says *For him that future was to include the bands Killing Joke, The Orb, Brilliant and The KLF; starting various record labels; hit records; producing and remixing a massive range of artists including Paul McCartney, The Verve, Tom Jones, Maria McKee, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, Guns N' Roses, Primal …
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*Julie Taylor was the police officer who gave her name to 'OPERATION JULIE', the biggest drug bust in UK history and one which resulted in the conviction of over a hundred individuals involved in the trafficking of LSD, including some of the most prolific chemists of the era. *Christine Bott was a practising doctor living a classic 1970s rural coun…
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*A time when musicians were viewed as revolutionaries and revolutionaries might be considered pop culture icons *Crate digger / rock critc / reissue producer and archivist extraordinaire Pat Thomas came to the Bureau to tell how black power intersected with counterculture and influenced folk, rock, soul and jazz in the years between 1965 and 1975. …
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The Rise and Fall of the '80s Free Festival
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*Who do the green roads and wide open spaces of Albion belong to? *This episode is a story is about a collision of two cultures - the counterculture of the twin tribes of urban free party ravers and new age travellers - and the mainstream culture of landowners, the legal authorities, English Heritage and right-wing politicians. *In the first of a s…
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What was it like to live in a commune? What was it like to grow up in a commune? NANCY THOMPSON came to the Bureau to tell us. She was born in The Shrubb Family Commune - one that was set up in a big old farmhouse in rural Norfolk in 1970 - and, remarkably, one that is still going today. In the early to mid '60s many Western cities were magnets dra…
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Being the further adventures of English musician broadcaster and LGTBQ activist TOM ROBINSON, as he gets deeply involved in the gay counterculture of London in the '70s whilst on his journey to having a huge hit with the song 2-4-6-8 Motorway We hear about the genesis of another hit - (Sing if You're)Glad to Be Gay - a remarkable, unprecedented pro…
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Liberation Part 1: Coming out in the Counterculture
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TOM ROBINSON is an English songwriter who rose to fame in the 70s as an LGBT and anti-racist campaigner. He has released over 20 albums and is an award-winning much-loved broadcaster who has made many programs on all six BBC radio channels. In this, the first of two programs, we trace his story from troubled youth through a suicide attempt and reco…
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Weekly Chat with PT Chris at the Apollo gymBy The Rare Savage
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The Beat Goes On: The Sounds of Allen Ginsberg
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YOUTH, producer of a huge range of artists (including Kate Bush, Crowded House, The Orb, KLF, The Verve, Guns ’n’ Roses and Primal Scream) and Jesse Goodman of the Allen Ginsberg Estate come to the Bureau to talk of the beat poet’s impact on music and the British counterculture. We hear about Youth's 'Iron Horse' project and two albums of interpret…
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This week i have been enjoying listening on my record player and in my van sign of the times by the mighty Prince check it out and have a listen.By The Rare Savage
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Britain’s own Tin Pan Alley, Denmark Street was once alive with the sound of hammered pianos, and sung melodies and choruses. Its songwriters knocked out tunes on the fly and rushed to the street to sell them to pay for the next round of drinks. In the '60s, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Kinks came here, so did Donovan and Jimmy Page, Eri…
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One from my record collection love listening to this record in the summer sun and on a winters dayBy The Rare Savage
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Shanil moreau the Auzzie from the outback
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We chat to shanil a traveling jujitsu and specialist teacher traveling the world via his home town austrialiaBy The Rare Savage
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Countercultural Libido: A History of 'Perversion'
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Warning: this episode contains discussions of sexual and other adult themes. Julie Peakman is a historian of eighteenth-century culture who specialises in the study sexuality and pornography. She is the author of 'Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890', 'Whore Biographies 1700-1825', The Development of Pornography in 18thC England' and many other books. Sh…
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Episode #75 | Strength in Numbers with James Ellis
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On this episode, I sit down with World Master's Weightlifting Champion, multi-facility CrossFit owner, and good friend, James Ellis, to record a deep and lengthy conversation out in my barn.Despite achieving such high accolades and accomplishments, it seems these might be the least interesting things about him. After joining us at our second Legion…
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EPISODE 13 NEW YEAR NEW START NEW CATCH UP WITH PAUL /TOM/RIC/AND A WHITE BELT
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NEW START NEW YEAR NEW PODCAST AND GENERAL CHIT CHAT AND TALKING JUJITSU AND TOTAL BOLLOCKBy The Rare Savage
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The Incredible String Band Part 2: Inside Looking Out
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*In this, the second of a two parter, we hear more of the crazy countercultural life and times of The Incredible String Band - from the inside looking out - with Rose Simpson *Rose was one quarter of the band during what many regard as their creative and countercultural peak in the late 60s and early 70s. •Her memoir 'Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden' i…
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The Incredible String Band - Part 1: Outside Looking In
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They were artists, myth makers, story tellers, tribe leaders, psychedelic troubadours; they pioneered "world music” with albums like The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter; they experimented with theater, drugs, film and lifestyle and inspired The Beatles, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Pet Shop's Neil Tennant, The Lilac Time and many, many others. They l…
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In the ’60s: The Birth of the British Underground
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He was friends with Burroughs and Ginsberg, wrote their biographies along with those of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Frank Zappa, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kereouc and penned books on The Beat Hotel, Pink Floyd, The Stones - amongst about 70 others. Barry Miles (known just as Miles) came back to the Bureau to tell us all about it. We hear how he set u…
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How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 3: The Dreaming
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*Niels Bohr discovered the structure of the atom in a dream, Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan after a dream, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was inspired by a dream, Hergé ’s 'Tintin in Tibet' - the first of many Tintin stories - the same. *Keith Richards claimed to have dreamed the riff to 'Satisfaction', Paul McCartney the melody to 'Yesterday’ - the most …
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•Cult icon, enigma, recluse, crazy diamond, he was the founding member of one of the world’s most famous and succesful rock groups, but the life of Syd Barrett is full of unanswered questions. •Was he a drug casualty of the sixties? Did he walk away from the pressures of the commercial music world? Did he suffer from an undiagnosed mental illness, …
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How To Expand Your Consciousness Part 2: Tripping
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*Psychedelics have made a comeback but they remain deeply mysterious. *They may be now seen as potential 'breakthrough therapy' for mental illness but we still have only a vague idea how they work, and there is a limit to what studies in labs can reveal. Any one who has used them knows that to really understand them, we must broaden our experience …
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So happy to talk to this young guy charlie baker he lives breaths jujitsu and he is only 18 and i am chatting to him in mount vernon at daisy freshBy The Rare Savage
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Songs of War and Peace - with Boris Grebenshikov
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*He is perhaps the biggest name in Russian rock music, famous as the leader of the band Aquarium throughout his homeland and 'Outer Russia’ (as the huge and growing number of Russian emigres are called), but he is now listed as a “foreign agent” - basically an anti-patriot, a traitor, for criticising Russia’s war *Aquarium were pioneers of the clan…
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Thanks wiki for the information Wolf Mother "WOMAN"By The Rare Savage
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Testing our new blue tooth device with small quiz
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i chat vey quickly to Ant while testing a new bluetooth device hes in southhampton while i am in basingstokeBy The Rare Savage
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Great to catch up with black belt Tom Baker and chat about jujitsu films and comic conBy The Rare Savage
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Flock of seagull review thanks for listeningBy The Rare Savage
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Riding The Oblivion Express - with Brian Auger
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•He’s played with Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Boy Williamson, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page, Billy Cobham, Spencer Davies, Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart, John McLaughlin, Tom Jones, Eric Burdon and many, many more. •With Julie Driscoll he had a huge hit with a masterful psychedelic rendition of Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire” •He's been hailed as …
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The Soho Bibles: The Secret Porn of Post-War London
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*Under the counter-culture.. *They were handmade illegal obscene books, a little like early punk zines, typewritten mimeographed manuscripts with two or three pornographic stories or a novella. *Many contained drawings or photographs and were sold in post-war London and provincial second hand bookshops Thousands were produced, but only a small prop…
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My short Pigsx7 record review land of the sleeper
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A short review of PIgsx7 vinyl record review through the mind of meBy The Rare Savage
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Episode 12 we are back chatting bollocks with Navy Man Stu
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After a six week break we are back chatting jitz camping dogs navey life and a shot gun with Navy Man StuBy The Rare Savage
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How to Expand Your Consciousness Part 1: Philosophy
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Philosophy as Counterculture? *For thousands of years, humans have been trying to expand this mysterious thing called consciousness, not only by drugs, dancing, art and spiritual practice but just by thinking, talking and arguing. *Is philosophy for anyone - or just for the elite in their ivory towers and universities? Can it be of the street, can …
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*Their number encompasses the darkest bogeymen of countercultural nightmares- including Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh and the Reverend Moon -as well as saintly figures devoted to the good of others; outright charlatans, narcissistic psychopaths, deluded New Age prophets as well as genuine gurus. *Since the 1950s, certain charismatic indiv…
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*Roger Huddle is a born and bred Londoner, a working class music-mad mod who grew up in the 50s, got radicalised in the 60s and became a co-founder of one the most successful activist groups of the 70s - Rock Against Racism (RAR). *RAR was a political and cultural movement which emerged in 1976 in reaction to a rise in racist attacks on the streets…
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So You Say You Want a (Sexual) Revolution?
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The pill, Profumo, pornography. Love, liberation and libido. Larkin, Lady Chatterley, Lolita, *No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and more vilified than the 1960s. *For some it was a time when music, fashion and drugs enabled young people to express their individuality and freedom and their hopes and dreams of a better world. Fo…
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*As the 60s turned into the 70s, and as some of the technicolour idealistic visions of the first summer of love started to fade, many of the denizens of those decades began to seek Utopia outside the cities of America and Europe. *Communes and communities sprang up in rural areas as spiritual seekers, hopeful hippies, fugitives, folkies, freaks and…
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*'This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius' claimed the first song in the hippie musical Hair in 1967. And perhaps it was. *As thousands gathered at Stonehenge to welcome the summer solstice sunrise and hundred of thousands gathered at the Glastonbury festival, Ethan Doyle White came to the Bureau of Lost Culture to talk about Paganism. *Glastonb…
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We were invited to Jay Butlers gym in Yateley for some tekkers and a chat .By The Rare Savage
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*In a remote village in the Ahl Srif tribal area of Northern Morocco, dwell a collective of Sufi musicians. They play a form of trance music which is used for healing. Timothy Leary called them The 4,000-year-old Rock’N’Roll band - rather superficial hyperbole perhaps - though it is true that what The Master Musicians of Joujouka play is thousands …
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we chat to ashley from newbury a blue belt and sean his buddy its mainly ash who was diagnosed with cancer and is now waiting for his op totally lovely guysBy The Rare Savage
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The Life and Psychedelic Times of the 13th Floor Elevators
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*They were psychedelic outlaws holing up in hill country hideouts to escape police harassment, dealing drugs to survive and blasting out a mix of LSD evangelism, mystical philosophy and grooved up rock’n’roll. *In their short existence, The 13th Floor Elevators succeeded in blowing the lid off the musical underground, logging early salvos in the co…
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Amazing to have Pete Robson from Parestra Poole Bjj to come over the loft have a chat about himself his gym and the BudabashoBy The Rare Savage
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*If they were a cult, they were a very British cult. *In the 1920s if you had seen strangely attired groups of people walking in formation along southern England's pagan pathways and round its prehistoric stone circles, you may have encountered The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift. *They shared their initials - and a predeliction for arcane symbols, point…
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