Tuesday, May 21, 2013

THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN HAS CRAMP

I was pleasantly surprised by the reaction of the readership of the various blogs to my mention of Mick Farren the other day. A whole slew of Forteans of a certain age came out of the woodwork with reminiscences of Farren's editorship of International Times back in the day. Even Dave B-P who is only just 21 remembers me playing him 'Let's Loot the Supermarket' when he was a schoolboy. You will all be pleased to find out therefore, that Dave B-P and I are driving down to Brighton on Sunday to film the Deviants gig, and interview Senor Farren and the other revolutionary luminaries who may or may not be there. I am very much looking forward to it.
 
I finished the Dan brown book which was massively entertaining if implausible, and nowhere near as irritating as its predecessor. However, as I said..implausible. I know various scientific types who bemoan the fact that we are approaching a Malthusian crisis, and - theoretically at least - talk about eugenics. Whether or not they would actually pull the trigger if they were given the opportunity I actually doubt, and I am certain that even if they did, they would not wrap the whole thing up in a bunch of pseudo-mystic, art-historian claptrap. However, it was eight quid well spent at Asda on Saturday evening, and now Mother is reading it...
 
The Gonzo Track of the Day is by the massively under-rated Cris Roversi
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-cristiano-roversi.html
 
 
 
 
Coming very soon to Gonzo Web Radio (once I can figure out the coding)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/coming-very-soon-to-gonzo-web-radio.html
 
 
 
*  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 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
 
* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  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?
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