Bold as Love by Gwyneth A. Jones

Author:Gwyneth A. Jones [Jones, Gwyneth A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9781597800020
Publisher: Gollancz (UK)
Published: 2001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

SIX

Sweetbriar

It takes longer to organise a big splashy day-to-night rock concert than it does to pass an Act of Parliament; but not that much longer, if you have everything in place. Post-Deconstruction Tour and general Crisis Conditions had to be accomodated: but Allie’s team was used to that. A flattering number of VIPs from the former nations of the UK managed to accept short notice invitations. Public transport to the Rivermead site was organised, and Reading town agreed to accept a brown-out, except for the hospitals, police and emergency services. The Heads had decided to take Sage’s Ministerial appointment seriously, so they wrote the programme, mixing bands with glee, and they could have fucking waited for a less fraught occasion to assume responsibility; but it was okay.

It was the fourth of May, heavy and humid under low skies. The day-trippers started pouring in at dawn. Sanitation hell descended once more on the peaceful, post-futuristic grunge of the staybehinds. Hippies, actual hardline hippies were heard talking about getting a sewage pipe installed, to the site gates. There were twisters in Staffordshire, yet more homewrecker floods in East Anglia, and the anti-nucleaires in the Rhone Valley might be bringing the European branch of modern civilisation to a sudden close; but that last wasn’t a big topic of conversation, Green Apocalypse Boredom having set in many moons ago.

It was strange to be back, to see the rebuilt Blue Lagoon, the Zen Self dome same as always, the Mood Indigo tent where the shit-fest had been held—the dishevelled permanence that had settled over all the rockfest ephemera of their history. The Chosen went on early in the afternoon, which the tv schedule people didn’t like, but too bad. The crowd seemed pleased (though they howled and begged for Jerusalem, and didn’t get it), and for once the frontman’s girlfriend managed to be there. At five the Heads were on Yellow Stage, otherwise known as Scary Stage because of its accident record; however nothing went wrong. There were other stages, other acts, poets and fire-eaters, dance troupes, storytellers and tumblers, non-Few Name Bands: but these were the images of that sweltering May holiday. Aoxomoxoa on the big screens, stalking around with a hand held mic, having left the visionboards to Cack Stannen, chanting the lyrics of ‘Kythera’—previously unintelligible to all but those trainspotters with the personality and the equipment required to strip a Heads track down to the bit stream.

Venus—

Lo in the western sky

Can you see the green light

That means go—

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