Early days yet, but a gathering is being discussed. Here's the link if you're interested: http://www.ukhippy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1264
I can remember when I was punk, punks used to fight hippies, at least in the early years from 1976 to 1978. So don't know if I would be welcome at a hippy gathering. Incidently punks got the come upance when they hundreds of them attended the Stonehenge free festival in June 1980 and loads of them got battered by loads of bikers.
nowadya punks are very welcome at more hippy gatherings from what i've seen. At psy-trance and squat parties there is a very sizeable portion of gutter punks along with the ravers and hippies
I haven't actually been in the punk scene since the late eighties. So have lost track of how the punk scene has changed over the years. I know that the late eighties punk offshoot the crusties were similar to hippies though. But they differed quite a bit from true hippies especially in their choice of music which was usually ultra hardcore such as bands like Napalm Death, Heresey and Extreme Noise Terror. And they like to get rough at gigs indulging in slam dancing and stage diving. Yes the punk scene does seem to have changed a hell of a lot over the past 16 years. For example you would never have got bands like Green Day back then playing sports staduims and geting a following from mainstream music fans. Also mainstream music fans ie casuals would not be that welcome at punk gigs. The nearest punk and the hippy scene came together was through a band called crass who had hippy style ethics and lyrics.
Crass were the exception in the punk movement. For a more accurate idea of how punks were in their heyday listen to early Expoilted albums and the moronic lyrics such as "fuck a mod" advocating warefare amongst rival youth cults. The ironic thing about the punk versus mod battles of the early 80s is that the top Mod revival band The Jam used to play alongside punk bands back in 1976 and had a large punk following in their early days. They had a sort of The Who meets the Sex Pistols sound. Combinning the energy of punk with sixties style attitude. Violence at gigs was also one of the main reasons for the decline of the punk scene at the end of the seventies as venue owners became reluctant to book punk bands after several venues got trashed by punk fans, and fighting between fans often caused gigs to be abandoned. Then as I mentioned there were the ritual battles between punks and mods every bank holiday monday at seaside resorts throughout the early 1980s. In scenes reminiscent of the mid 60s Mods versus Rockers clashes, but often much worse. Skinheads joined in aswell usually on the side of the punks. The punk off shoot Oi was even worse, a mainly skinhead scene consisting of punk infuenced rock music. Serious riots occurred in 1981 at Oi gigs such as Aclam Hall in Nottinghill and Hatfeild Polytechnic after Oi gigs were held there. As well as the infamous Hamborough Tavern race riot in Southall. Though strangely the later right wing Blood and Honour movement was largely free of violence at gigs.
