THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HIDES

My parents were peculiar people, and had very fixed ideas on things. It is a trait that I have inherited from them, but I hope that I apply a bit more common sense and am a little bit less dogmatic. They were convinced that having a Bank Holiday to celebrate May Day was the first step towards having Communist Hordes and the Red Army parading through Bideford. I remember trying to convince them that it was actually the Roman Catholic feast day of St Joseph the Worker, but to no avail. Ever since they stopped celebrating Mass in Latin, The Vatican was tantamount to being part of the aforementioned Global Communist Conspiracy. But I am not them. Today is the May Bank Holiday weekend,tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo (which is a revolutionary holiday, but a completely different revolution) and rejoice that the weather is warmer than it was, the orange tips are finally flying, and that any day now the new Mr Averell CD 'Gridlock', comes out. And it is bloody good.

Our daily visit to the world of Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Adam Lambert & Steve Cooke
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-adam-lambert-steve.html

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Dyble talks about recording with the incredible string band
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-weekly-judy-dyble-talks-about.html

THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Jeff Hanneman (1964-2013)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/those-we-have-lost-jeff-hanneman-1964.html

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: The Yes double album watch...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/cabinet-of-curiosities-yes-double-album.html

EXCLUSIVE: Judge Smith talks about Mr Averell
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-weekly-judge-smith-talks-about-mr.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?