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It's Trippy Man!...
review 800,000 fellow Liverpudlians might have chosen to crush into the streets around St Georges Hall chasing a bus covered in flags. However, a few hundred of us brave souls made it to the Tate to the opening of the groundbreaking new Summer Of Love exhibition. Even the Tate is blowing its own trumpet and proclaiming this the biggest and best exhibition of its kind in the world.This is full on psychedelia overdrive - everything from print, press, film, interiors, fine art, kinetic sculpture to cars and cushions. It's a swirling, kaleidoscope of colour and image. Warhol, The Beatles, Velvet Underground - Oz magazine Hendrix - it's the definitive trip down hippy street via strawberry fields with a quick stop at the pharmacist to stock up on uppers, downers and the little blue ones that make the flowers talk. Darkened chill out rooms of colour fields (like being in a giant lava lamp) contrast with hundreds of books, magazines, posters and record covers - different rooms scream with purple, orange or rainbow walls and kinetic and light sculptures mess with your head (a lot...). In some ways it's all a bit overwhelming, a couple of the rooms have far too much to look at - dozens of multicoloured prints and posters fight for your eye. Other rooms seem a bit lost - the blacked out video chambers didn’t seem to fit with the general scheme. But all together it's a triumph! Make sure you give yourself plenty of time - it could take half a day at least to get round (and a couple of asprin might be in order afterwards). You might want to invest in the catalogue rather than trying to take it all in, but it's on for a while, so I suggest you do it in a couple of trips. This is a fantastic exhibition, well worth the effort, and it's a bit humbling to think that the middle-aged, grumpy old men and women of today were once such vibrant, creative and political butterflies. By the way - next time you talk to your parents, ask them - just what exactly they were on? Find our more by visiting Tate Liverpool. This exhibition runs 27 May - 25 September.
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