THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS PARANOID AS EVER

The weekend was a nice and pleasant one on the whole, we have Olivia's cat Morticia here as a houseguest until Olivia finds a flat in Norfolk. I finished Mick Farren's 'Give the Anarchist a Cigarette' and was struck by Farren's integrity, and compared him very favourably with other underground memoirs I have read in recent years. The other day Andy Thommen from Zenit sent me the first two albums by the band, and Mother and I listened to 'Surrender', their second album yesterday afternoon. It was recorded back in 2006, and the tone is noticeably darker than their current album on Gonzo, but again I was struck by the peerless musicianship and the more bonkers bits of the vocals. We will be sitting down with their debut soon, so watch this space.

I am also reading Dan Brown's latest, which is - once again - entertaining tosh. I have read about two thirds of it, but it seems (so far at least) to be the most entertaining since the first in the series, and head and shoulders above the last one (although that really wouldn't be difficult). But it was cheap at Asda, and I am a sucker for lightweight thrillers.

The Gonzo Track of the Day is by The Hovercraft Pirates
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-shut-hell-up.html

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_20.html

YES: Jon Davison interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/jon-davison-interview.html

The Green Violinist review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-green-violinist-review.html

Ant-Bee review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/ant-bee-review.html

Interview with Joey Molland about the Badfinger legacy
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/joey-molland-interview-legacy-of.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?