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===United Kingdom=== {{Further|New Age travellers|Second Summer of Love}} In the UK, there are many [[new age travellers]] who are known as hippies to outsiders, but prefer to call themselves the [[Peace Convoy]]. They started the [[Stonehenge Free Festival]] in 1974, but [[English Heritage]] later banned the festival in 1985, resulting in the [[Battle of the Beanfield]]. With Stonehenge banned as a festival site, new age travellers gather at the annual [[Glastonbury Festival]]. Today{{when|date=August 2022}}, hippies in the UK can be found in parts of [[South West England]], such as [[Bristol]] (particularly the neighborhoods of [[Montpelier, Bristol|Montpelier]], [[Stokes Croft]], [[St Werburghs]], [[Bishopston, Bristol|Bishopston]], [[Easton, Bristol|Easton]] and [[Totterdown]]), [[Glastonbury]] in [[Somerset]], [[Totnes]] in [[Devon]], and [[Stroud]] in [[Gloucestershire]], as well as in [[Hebden Bridge]] in [[West Yorkshire]], and in areas of [[London]] and [[Cornwall]]. In the summer, many hippies and those of similar subcultures gather at numerous outdoor festivals in the countryside. In New Zealand, between 1976 and 1981, tens of thousands of hippies gathered from around the world on large farms around [[Waihi]] and [[Waikino]] for music and alternatives festivals. Named ''[[Nambassa]]'', the festivals focused on peace, love, and a balanced lifestyle. The events featured practical [[workshops]] and displays advocating [[alternative lifestyles]], [[self sufficiency]], clean and [[sustainable energy]] and [[sustainable living]].<ref>Nambassa: A New Direction, edited by Colin Broadley and Judith Jones, A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1979. {{ISBN|0-589-01216-9}}</ref> In the UK and Europe, the years 1987 until 1989 were marked by a large-scale revival of many characteristics of the hippie movement. This later movement, composed mostly of people aged 18 to 25, adopted much of the original hippie philosophy of love, peace and freedom. The summer of 1988 became known as the [[Second Summer of Love]]. Although the music favored by this movement was modern [[electronic music]], especially [[house music]] and [[acid house]], one could often hear songs from the original hippie era in the ''chill out rooms'' at [[rave]]s. Also, there was a trend towards psychedelic indie rock in the form of [[shoegaze]], [[dream pop]], [[Madchester]] and [[Neo-psychedelia|neo-psychedelic]] bands like [[Jesus And Mary Chain]], [[the Sundays]], [[Spacemen 3]], [[Loop (band)|Loop]], [[Stone Roses]], [[Happy Mondays]], [[Inspiral Carpets]] and [[Ride (band)|Ride]]. This was effectively a parallel soundtrack to the rave scene that was rooted as much in 1960s psychedelic rock as it was in [[post-punk]], though Madchester was more directly influenced by acid house, funk and northern soul. Many ravers were originally soul boys and [[football casuals]], and [[football hooliganism]] declined after the Second Summer of Love. In the UK, many of the well-known figures of this movement first lived communally in [[Stroud Green, London|Stroud Green]], an area of north London located in [[Finsbury Park]]. In 1995, ''[[The Sekhmet Hypothesis]]'' attempted to link both hippie and rave culture together in relation to transactional analysis, suggesting that rave culture was a social archetype based on the mood of friendly strength, compared to the gentle hippie archetype, based on friendly weakness.<ref>''The Sekhmet Hypothesis'', Iain Spence, 1995, Bast's Blend. {{ISBN|0952536501}}</ref> The later electronic dance genres known as [[goa trance]] and [[psychedelic trance]] and its related events and culture have important hippie legacies and neo hippie elements. The popular DJ of the genre [[Goa Gil]], like other hippies from the 1960s, left the US and Western Europe to travel on the [[hippie trail]] and later developed psychedelic parties and music in the Indian state of [[Goa]], in which the goa and psytrance genres were born and exported around the world in the 1990s and 2000s.<ref>{{citation|quote=In 1969, Gilbert Levy left the Haigh Ashbury district of San Francisco and took the overland trail through Afghanistan and Pakistan, first to Bombay and then to Goa...Throughout the 1970s, Gil organized legendary parties at Anjuna- moonlight jams of non-stop music, dancing and chemical experimentation that lasted from Christmas Eve to New Year´s Day for a tribe of fellow overland travellers who called themselves the Goa Freaks...In the 90s, Gil started to use snippets from industrial music, etno techno, acid house and psychedelic rock to help create Goa Trance, dance music with a heavy spiritual accent...For Goa Gil, Goa Trance is a logical continuation of what hippies were doing back in the 60s and 70s. "The Psychedelic Revolution never really stopped" he said, "it just had to go halfway round the world to the end of a dirt road on a deserted beach, and there it was allowed to evolve and mutate, without government or media pressures.|title=Time Out: Mumbai and Goa|publisher=Time Out Guides|location=London|year=2011|page=184}}</ref>
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