Life is remarkably busy at the moment. Richard arrived late yesterday afternoon and work continued on the new edition of George Eberhart's two volume encyclopaedia of cryptozoology from about ten years ago. Sheri the intern has continued to make great progress and I am sure we shall miss her when she leaves us on thursday. Last night Richard and I watched a couple of Gonzo DVDs: one by the first lineups of Renaissance, and the collection of songs by The Move in the Lost Broadcasts series. As regular readers will be aware, tomorrow I am partaking in and basically running a fun day for local children at Barnstaple Museum. It means that I will be up and out of here at some ungodly hour, and so tomorrow's blogs will be published late tonight, and there won't actually be any tomorrow.
I also won't be reading my emails until late tomorrow evening, so if you have emailed me and not had a reply, you know why.
Toodle-ooh
A brief note about the disruptions of the next few days...
I will be doing a brief interview with Helen on the subject sometime over the next week, but in the meantime, here is an account of last weekend's Club Artyfartle in her own words...
In Greece it seems that they are big fans of The Move, and having seen the Gonzo DVD by the band last night it is hard not to agree with them...
I have just discovered a blog by a 20-year-old who writes like a dream. I have no idea whether the person who writes is male or female, black or white, able bodied or in a wheelchair, but whoever (s)he is (s)he can write like an angel. There are only two entries on the blog so far, but as this one mentions Captain Beefheart, and there is a jolly good Captain Beefheart DVD available on Gonzo, I think that I am perfectly justified in giving Universal Vibration a plug.
Our regular daily visit to the life and work of Thom the World Poet
Well, yesterday I solves a little personal mystery of mine which has been mildly bugging me for the last four decades (give or take a couple of years). In the early seventies I used to occasionally spend the weekend with a school friend called Tim. He had an older brother whose name is lost deep within the sands of time, and he had a poster of a beautiful woman on his bedroom wall. The woman on the poster on my mate's elder brother's bedroom wall was none other than Keith Relf's sister Jane, singer with the earliest incarnation of Renaissance and now on a Gonzo DVD...
The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
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?
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