Music
Ken Kesey’s merry band. ‘You’re either on the bus, or off the bus’ circa 1964+. As immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s ‘Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’ book. And frequently associated as the Grateful Dead’s crew with Captain Trips (Jerry Garcia) at the helm. This offers links to Prankster, Ken Babbs’ site (new pages and old pages) and some promo video for ‘Magic Trip’ documentary of the original Magic Bus, ‘Furthur’ trip.
Based in Italy, these festivals seem to be pretty alternative. Lots of links to music, films and ‘stuff’. Not sure how commercial or ‘otherwise’ these events actually are.
Their events have titles like ‘Spirit of Woodstock’, ‘World Peace’ and ‘Rainbow Gatherings’, but also ‘Oktoberfest’!
Check them out through their links.
The Mutoid Waste Company are an important and influential counter culture group. Here are links to two site. As Mutate Britain site says: “Still alive and kicking after 25 years thanks to the continued stewardship of Joe Rush, their apocalyptic vision, born from the chaos of rejected military and industrial scrap metal, laid foundation stones for rave, warehouse and festival culture.”
Nik Turner (jazz space funk supremo) of Hawkwind, Inner City Unit, Outriders of the Apolcalypse and Space Ritual fame has a site which offers other links too.
Nimbin is an alternative village/small township born out of the environmental, arts-music and protest scene post the Aquarius Festival in 1973. Often at odds with the local authorities over its tolerance over drugs. Two site links. Australian ‘hippy central’ in the heart of New South Wales’ Rainbow Region.
Annual Psychedelic Tribal Gathering in Hungary. More than a festival, rather, a portal into new insights for life, living and EDM music and dance! Describes itself as, “a Spiritual Awakening”.
The O.Z.O.R.A. Festival has been held on an estate in Ozora near small village Dádpuszta every year since 2004. The first party was called Solipse and took place during the Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.
The Ozora festival (with Solar United Natives festival) is one of the two sizeable psytrance festivals in Hungary, and is one of the fastest growing psychedelic trance festivals in the world.
Site dedicated to archiving a wide range of counter-cultural materials, films, music video, magazines and more, including the whole archive of the underground newspaper, ‘Oz’. They also run courses.
A Big ‘hub’ site.
Links to their website and FB page.
Uniquely disturbing Australian artist, visionary, theatre performer and musician. Inhabits the outer hemispheres of the brain and the occult. An alternative-festival cult, but not for the squeamish!
A couple of links to start you off into his diverse, wild worlds.