We're genuine people just like yourselves, and we need help right now. Please. Help us. Atlantic Oldies 2NG All of you, help us. Stand by us. Their convoy, in a way, had turned into its own worst enemy. It had turned into a bit of a Babylon on wheels. There were still a lot of good people in it and there was a lot of hope, but there were ugly and greedy sides to it. I don't know what would have happened if it hadn't been attacked. I think it needed to change anyway. But it was a brutal way to change. I travelled to a mystical time-zone And I missed my bed and I soon came home A rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours With the Battle of the Beanfield, the establishment had crushed free Music culture. The original dream of an alternative Utopian society now lay in tatters. A rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours It has been before, so why can't it be now ? What was left of the convoy made their way to a place where they knew they could find some sanctuary. A lot of people were really scared to deal with them, so Michael ended up driving He got the call that they were leaving Stonehenge at am and he was up all night waiting for them. This is really quite a small village in the middle of the West Country. Online Radio So when all these trucks were arriving, people were really scared. I was dealing with these people on my own, really. I was just an ordinary Somerset farmer lad, really. I'd never seen anything like it before. And they were wild. They were angry as well. They were really tough times. People were really embittered after it. People started living on sites with the wreckage of what they had left over. But it was really the wreckage of their dream, which was what had been destroyed. You say we're bad news. We're the good news. You're so internet radio ing unreliable. All the work I've been doing for you all the way through You invited yourselves here. I gave you , or however many tickets, to come on. I said we'd look after you well We gave you the best show you've had here for years. We said we'd look after you well I don't know what you expected. We expected to not be out of pocket. I've been running this show for years, and I've been fair and reasonable all that time. If I hadn't been, I wouldn't be here now. I'd be cut to pieces by now. By the end of the 's, with Glastonbury struggling with the times and Reading facing bankruptcy, the outlook for British Musics was bleak. MUSIC: "What Time Is Love?" by The Atlantic Oldies 2NG But in and around the fringes of Online Radio's cities, a new drug and a new generation would combine once again to reignite Music culture. The whole s acid house and free party stuff was an actual reaction against the sort of Thatcherite idea, or the enforced ideology that there was no society. And I think that's where they made that big mistake, and their mistake created the void that we then filled. The acid house came along and the ecstasy came along simultaneously, and they were the antidote. Acid house quickly spread from the inner cities to their ring roads, as the nation's youth jumped in their Fiesta XRis, dodged the police and put their hands in the air.

People starting to follow the Music trail. Free Musics was a lifestyle thing that we wanted to develop a way of living out of, rather than just the music thing. We were like a whole generation on the move, all these people who, you know, a lot of people would travel from Music to Music. They basically lived at Musics. They'd stay on afterwards and clean up after them. As far as free Musics were concerned, we were the travelling Music. When we turned up with vehicles and our families, got our stalls out and put them up, you know, we traded with the local population. A whole group of like-minded people who would try to make a living at Musics by making stuff and selling things. I remember walking in to one, and within minutes I was in charge of an organic stall. And the guy didn't come back for two hours. So I mean, you know, it was like that. You just didn't have a Like, "I'm playing music." You were part of all of it. As the free Music movement gathered momentum in the early 's, this new alternative culture began looking for a spiritual home, and converged for a series of Musics in the somewhat provocative surroundings of Windsor Great Park. The spirit there was quite incredible, it really was. It was just amazing. The whole feeling. People were there and could hardly believe this was happening in England. And what's more, on the Queen's back door step! I went down there with a couple of mates. We hitched down there with a little old army tent. Eventually got to Windsor station, and as we left the railway station there was just a line of hippies, all the way down through the town, off to the Great Park. And there were joints going backwards and forwards. You'd take a puff and pass it on. As we arrived on the Great Park, there were American Christian Network playing on the grass. It was just It was like going home. MUSIC: "Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)" by Hawkwind Sick of politicians, harassment and laws All we do is get screwed up by other people's flaws At Windsor we had a chap who turned up with a briefcase. Came up to me and said, "Do you stage manage?" I said, "No, I'm just doing the lights. I don't know what a stage manager is actually." And he said, "I've got this to give out." And I was going, "Oh, right." You could see out across this great swathe of the audience at Windsor. And I was thinking, hmm. Between numbers I said, "There's a chap here that's got some "if anybody would like something to get high on, just come to the front of the stage." And there was a huge People started getting up one by one and it just got mad. We had to withdraw. The singer pointed out to the crowd there was a drug squad officer walking through the crowd. Again, we weren't prepared for the level of response. About people started moving towards this guy, who promptly legged it. Pulled out his radio - what a giveaway - Black Mariah pulled up on the road yards away, and I'd never seen anybody cross yards faster in all my life, with irate hippies chasing him! I think Windsor set out to be a carnival Music, but also a political statement. If you want to really get up the nose of the authorities, have a carnival in the Queen's back garden.