A quarter of a century after the Greenham Common demonstrations Proteus Theatre company are looking for people of all ages to get involved in a community play about the event. They are looking for people to play the campaigners,police,USA military and the anti-protestors. The theatre hopes everyone will get involved regardless of their acting skills. Performances take place June 13 - 14 in the grounds of Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke. To find out more contact Ross at Proteus on 01256354541 ; info [at] proteustheatre [dot] com or turn up to a registartion evening on June7th at 430pm to 7pm. [The protest lasted 19 years and involved more than 50,000 people as they successfully forced NATO to move the site to America.]
"What we plan to do is write a script based on the experiences of those who observed the protests and have memories to share"
andi
Greenham
That reminds me of my efforts to bring about nuclear disarmament and world peace in the early eighties ;-) Here are three pictures from one of my yomps around the perimeter - about nine miles iirc.
Hi! I'm the Art Director at
Hi! I'm the Art Director at Bitch magazine (http://bitchmagazine.org/) and we are doing a timeline on important moments culture jamming history. Greenham Common is on the timeline and I'd love to be able to use one of your images for our piece. I don't have a budget to pay you, but am happy to offer photo credit. What do you say?
Kind regards,
Briar Levit
briar [at] b-word [dot] org
Greenham Common
Briar
You might find this guy David Hoffman rather helpful from that era?
My sister was part of the Peace Camp also and he knows her.
Contact : david [at] hoffmanphotos [dot] com
chrs
andi
Torpedo Town.
That sounds like a really interesting project. Theatre can be used very effectively to document such landmark events, and to remind us that the threat is still all too real.
My very first introduction to Roy was at a peace festival, in the '80s - nicknamed the "Torpedo Town" festival, it was held at Brambles Farm, near Waterlooville, Hants, in protest against a weapons factory being built on the site. One of the organisers, Alan Rundle (though back then we were acutely aware of avoiding hierarchy - no one person was ever identified as a main organiser) arranged for Roy to play - this was the era of Ozric Tenatacles and the Poison Girls, if memory serves me right - and of course, for many of us young 'uns, we had no idea who Roy was. "Who's Roy Harper?", we'd ask. "Just wait and see" was all Alan would say.
The rest, as they say, is history.
As a footnote, I recall Roy turning up and taking a look at the PA, he immediately turned his car around and left the festival. He drove all the way home, which was in Clapham, London, I think, and returned with his own PA, which he lent for the duration.
He's a legend.
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Yeah, I was at that one
Yeah, I was at that one too. I remember seeing Roy drive off as I got there and thinking "bollox that was a wasted trip then!". Was it that night when he had to cut it short anyway because it was too cold to play comfortably? I also remember thinking I would sleep in the open and then watching a fantastic electrical storm approach from behind a stage (or was that a different year)?
Yeah, he was complaining
Yeah, he was complaining about the circulation in his fingers, though he still playd quite a good set from what I recall - back then of course I didn't know what each song was called! I remember cold fingers, awesome sound and Roy flirting with the girls down the front.
Buggered if I recall a storm though. Might have been!
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Brambles Farm/Torpedo town
Hello all
My name is Damien Boden and I was one of the 'hardcore unwashed' peace demonstrators from the early eighties. I am from Purbrook near Waterlooville and was one of the people who set up the peace camp at Brambles farm in 1982 out of which sprang the Torpedo Town festivals. I have put a mention of the camp on Wikipedia (please feel free to edit/add etc).
I have been a fan of Roy since that time when someone played me 'McGooans Blues' I have sort of worked out the chords and I try to play and sing it very badly sometimes and scare the kids!
Anyway, back to the plot! The 25th anniversary of the first peace camp will be this summer and I thought that it would be nice to mark it in some way, even if its just a visit to the site and a drink in the local gales pub, The Heroes.
If anyone can remember back that far and would like to come out and play then contact me
damien [dot] boden [at] btinternet [dot] co.
Sorry, we kind of hijacked
Sorry, we kind of hijacked this thread!
Damien, there is more Brambles Farm content here;
http://www.stormcock.net/node/167
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