Church this morning and then non stop Prague prep.
Last three week-ends solid.
Packed my cases with videos and cd's.
Emails by the shed loads.
Notes and creativity.
All on paper to be realized from Sunday onwards.
The admin creaks at the Prague office.
Greenbelt with 30 years experience much more smooth.
But we had that heartache.
One day, Monday, is my last Prague day before I work for 2 and then fly away.
Thursday is the day it starts for me.
Like the Rugby team I love and who won today, do one match a time.
So Greenbelt waits on the priority list till I say bye to Prague.
so let us live and love in wonder ................ love that love ......I want to make love not be a love lover. A peace lover is not as beautiful as a peace maker. I want to be a love maker.
We are all products of people who loved us, or failed to love us, or were unable to love us.
Thanx for God for being a lover
...................wonder...................................................bhp
.......... the man Willie Williams to be at Greenbelt this year.
bhp
...........there is a Greenbelt email forum which you can sign up to on the Greenbelt website.
Here you will get regular emails direct to your inbox with all sort of comments about real life and many Greenbelt reflections and expectation.
All from Greenbelt enthusiasts.
I am a long termer.
I am interested in their views.
I am a Greenbelt enthusiast.
Consider?
bhp
I am trying to get contact with anyone who has a copy of the SCRIPT video.
SCRIPT is a band made famous at Greenbelt even though they never played live. Their tape was lost by me (I loaned it to some-one and didn't get it back) and I only have a second generation copy from when we showed it on Main Stage in 19**?. Someone MUST have a copy!
If anyone has video from any of the older festival can you let me know? pip@pipwilson.com
I have video from the Stinking Late Shows back in 1986 but there must be some clips from earlier?
All the best stuff will be out there in ya face at the '30 Year Retro' show as below. You may be a able to contribute?
THIRTY STINKIN YEARS
Ninety minutes of Greenbelt carnage: song, dance, comedy, tragedy, live
interviews, archive video, contemplative prayer, fairly well known
celebrities, relatively new jokes and, of course, THAT video. All in all an
affectionate 30 year GB retrospective hosted by Pip Wilson and Martin Wroe.
(Roughly three minutes per annum, history permitting.)
I am troubled tonight.
I am troubled deep.
I feel a deep sadness.
Not for myself.
The trouble in my soul is, I am only working this out as I click the keys, I feel deeply for the people I have been with.
Trapped.
Locked.
Negative.
Dependent.
Medicated.
Brainsoaked.
Hurting.
Once a film for TV was made about the work I was doing, some years ago, and I felt not ok because they called it something like 'Hopeless'. I did not feel or believe the people I worked with were hopeless. I believed they were deprived and lost and bursting with creativity which was, sadly, anti-social.
Am I saying these NOW people are 'hopeless'?
Thinking and scratching the brain, which seems so close to the soul, I think they are not hopeless which is NO HOPE. I feel and think the word 'trapped' my be more appropriate.
It is not right to say this in that all are individuals and have unique issues in life. Sometimes I feel that they will have to get into a worse state before they can step away from it. Hope is a deep word, a Bible word, a positive, futuristic word. I want to lock into that and not to feel the oppression of their loss, deprivation,...............
The message of the incarnation is, I believe, is ......... we have to feel that pain ourselves so that our own soul aches, so we feel the brokenness, feel the depth of their trapped life style. It is what we believe, I reflect, which directs our attitudes, tone, decisions and role.
So, I now say I have to feel the pain but but reflect then above it. Lift up in Angel wings so that I am not trapped ......... but focussed and strategic in every relationship and ( again impossible) in every conversation and utterance.
Lord have mercy and roll on Greenbelt
bhp
THIRTY STINKIN YEARS
Ninety minutes of Greenbelt carnage: song, dance, comedy, tragedy, live
interviews, archive video, contemplative prayer, fairly well known
celebrities, relatively new jokes and, of course, THAT video. All in
all an
affectionate 30 year GB retrospective hosted by Pip Wilson and Martin
Wroe.
(Roughly three minutes per annum, history permitting.)
bhp
Just watched a video tape from Greenbelt which was SO fantastic. It was made at Greenbelt and went out nightly at 'the Very Stinking Late Show'. It was 'Trouser TV' and so watchable and even moreso because you may be on it looking so young??
TROUSER TELEVISION.
Was produced and directed by Willie Williams of Greenbelt and U2 fame.
He went on to have a 60 million budget for doing the same with a smalltime band and it was called the Zoo tv tour or something.
The tape is old and made to be shown in episodes like we will again the is year. It is SO wonderful and has so many people starring in it. Some I know the names. Others looking so young and now........
*rain was filmed with toilets too
*There was Steve Fernie talking to a tent
*lots of people telling jokes .....some funny
*A nappy change race with two babies who will now be ..... almost teenagers ( I don't want to give the year away)
*the punk orchestra
*two people giving a one minute seminar each and talking at the same time.
......... it is so fab that I want to play it all in the retro show being done by Martin Wroe and myself this year. The tape is all fronted by Willie who will be with us in the flesh.
I want to show it you now!!
So that is one of the top shows to get to which is not in the leaflet ..... much. There is so much which will not be expected and great ......... that is Greenbelt all over ....... it is impossible to tell the treats up front. I don't know the extent of all the programme and THAT is exciting.
Pip Wilson bhp