THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS NOT SURE WHETHER HE'S COMPLIANT OR NOT

I have always found it irritating when journalist types crow over having access to something that the rest of us mere mortals don't have access to. But I am just about to do exactly that thing. Except I am not crowing. That would be vulgar. I have one of the few sets of songfiles for the forthcoming Judy Dyble album 'Flow and Change'. I am listening it as I speak....it is absolutely magnificent. I absolutely adore her last album 'Talking with Strangers', and I was afraid that nothing she could do would be as good as that was. I was wrong, because this album is quite possibly even better. I don't know. I am so overwhelmed by the rich textures, pastoral splendour and sheer beauty of this magnificent record. I will be writing more about it very soon....and you won't have to wait long to hear it yourselves. It comes out this summer.

 

We have a visitor; my old friend Richard Stanbrook who is a very good, if idiosyncratic classical composer. We were students together three decades ago, and have kept in touch ever since. So don't expect any answers from me if you telephone or email. We are out with Mother and Richard for the afternoon, but will be back in time for the arrival of Helen's goldfish tonight.

 

sláinte.

 

Our daily visit to the world of Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_26.html

 

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Galahad
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/gonzo-track-of-day-galahad-empires.html

 

Guess where Rob Ayling was last night (1)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/guess-where-rob-ayling-was-last-night.html

 

Guess where Rob Ayling was last night (2): Exclusive pics from last night's show by Mick Farren and the Deviants
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/guess-where-rob-ayling-was-last-night-2.html

 

Frank Zappa at the Proms
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/prom-25-zappa-adventures-of-greggery.html

 

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Keith Emerson's bling
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/cabinet-of-curiosities-keith-emersons.html

 

THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Richie Havens (1940-2013)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/those-we-have-lost-richie-havens-1940.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 same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

 

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*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cats?