You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970, V&A, 9 September 2016

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Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream to the V&A.

We were fortunate, through Janie’s membership, to be able to attend the members’ preview of this wonderful exhibition late afternoon/early evening.

The exhibition is well described on the V&A site here.

We both absolutely loved the exhibition.

Of course, the sixties is still very much on our minds in the aftermath of Janie and Kim’s groovy happening – OK, so the above photo is from that happening, not the exhibition.

Still, you could be forgiven for thinking that the V&A curator might have been hanging out at our groovy happening taking notes ahead of the exhibition.

They used a similar mind-blowing sound-bleed technique as the one we used at the party in the themed rooms.

The penultimate room in the exhibition is a sixties festivals room, with festival memorabilia, Woodstock (the movie) on a loop and AstroTurf on the ground so you can chill in a sixties-rock-fest-stylee.

It is a great show. If you read this posting in time (I think it runs to February 2017) get thee a ticket to the V&A show and surry down to South Kensington to see the show. You won’t be disappointed.

 

Surreal Things Exhibition, V&A, 2 July 2007

Janie and I tended, even in those days, to take a day off work on the Monday after going to an international cricket match on a Sunday. We went to the ODI at Lord’s on the Sunday and I’m pretty sure we walked back to the flat after the match.

We had been talking about going to see the surrealism exhibition at the V&A for some time, so the Monday after the match seemed an ideal opportunity.

Here are some on-line artefacts about the exhibition:

We both really liked this exhibition. I can’t for the life of me remember what else we did that day. Probably not a lot.