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Our new intern arrived last night. She is a delightful young lady from Yorkshire, and I have an idea that I shall tease her unmercifully all week. She and Dave B-P came to dinner last night, but sadly Jess H was ill or we should have had a full compliment. Hopefully she will be with us this afternoon, cos we miss her and its not the same without her. I think that the week ahead is looking to be rather an impressive one..

Hawkwind music in an advert for the new Ford B-Max. What's going to be next? Magic Michael promoting marmalade? Do I approve? Or do I not approve? I'm not sure. But as Graham points out it is from their years with EMI, and the decision was probably nothing at all to do with the band. I hope they get a few quid from it..
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/hawkwind-in-ford-ad.html

I haven't forgotten to do the video of Jefferson Starship and Auburn live in Southampton last week, but life has been immeasurably complicated this week. Hopefully, however, it will be returning to normal soon. In the meantime piccies by Graham of Liz and the boys on stage..
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/there-will-be-more-video-of-auburn-live.html

A link to a peculiar article about Annie Haslam's extraordinary vocal range. I love minutae, and I love the idea that someone has sat through all of Annie Haslam and Renaissance's albums making notes. Stuff like this makes me happy:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-annie-haslams-vocal-range.html

These guys are rather nifty I think. They are called Enochian Theory and they are supporting Gong on their forthcoming tour...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/enochian-theory-i-think-this-bunch-are.html

I think Peter McAdam is one of the funniest people around, and I cannot recommend his book The Nine Henrys highly enough. This week we shall be running a series of Henrybits that are not found in his book about the nine cloned cartoon characters who inhabit a surreal world nearly as insane as mine...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-daily-henry-see-jungle-see-jungle.html

I don't think I have posted this great Michael Des Barres review before, but it bears repeating if I have...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-great-review-of-michael-des-barres.html

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_26.html

And whilst on the subject of Texas Thom, here is the gloriously portentious trailer for a documentary on the Austin TX poetry and arts scene...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/thom-world-poet-sent-me-this-gloriously.html

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The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?