Bore Hole: “How I came to drill a hole in my head to get permanently high”

London Fortean Society in partnership with Conway Hall present

Joe Mellen: Bore Hole: “How I came to drill a hole in my head to get permanently high”

£5 plus booking fee (Advance tickets)
Monday 29 February 2016
7.30pm
Change of Venue:
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX.
Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East
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Travelling to Morocco and Ibiza, then back to the first spring of swinging London, Joe Mellen
discovers the pleasures of hashish, is captivated by the visionary intensity of LSD and, after meeting the Dutch psychedelic guru Bart Huges, attempts the ultimate head trip, the bore hole.

Strange Attractor press have released a heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen’s auto-trepanation memoir: Bore Hole which takes us deep into the dawning of the UK’s psychedelic counter culture, and into a mind breaking free from the confines of a traditional English upbringing. Joe discusses this memoir with us tonight.

£5 plus booking fee (Advance tickets)
Monday 29 February 2016
7.30pm
Change of Venue:
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX.
Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East
Facebook event page

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