BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE – Knocking on Heaven’s Door (08/07/2023)
As the 60s turned into the 70s, and as some of the bright technicolour vision of the first summers of love started to fade, many of the denizens of those decades began to seek Utopia outside the cities of America and Europe.
Communes and communities sprang up in rural areas as spiritual seekers, hopeful hippies, fugitives, folkies, freaks and wild wanderers on the seas of fate tried to create new societies, living by their own values – often away from the watchful eye of the authorities.
After experiencing a personal catastrophe, musician and writer DAVID BRAMWELL set off in search of salvation by exploring some of the alternative and intentional communities where folk are still trying to build utopia. He came across all sort of strange things and people along the way in an odessy that took in a 1950s caravan on the northern shores of Scotland, a dominatrix communiity in the Czech republic and a time machine hidden in a vast underground temple in Italy .
