THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS RELIEVED

And so the beat goes on. As you may know, Olivia is moving out of my house in Exeter and being replaced by Matt and Emma Osborne and their menagerie. Yesterday we took delivery of their collection of rodents, as part of the pre-move sorting out. We shall be fostering them here until Thursday. In the meantime, Emma asked Corinna if she wanted two girl rats to replace Viv who died of a brain tumour some weeks ago. So what was my mother's dining room and is now Corinna's office now has three girl rats scampering about.

I don't like to argue with Mick Farren, but in his massively entertaining and enlightening autobiography he is very scathing about The Deviants' second album 'Disposable'. I got around to listening to it for the first time about half an hour ago, and there are bits of it that I really like. But then again (much to the chagrin of my family) I like atonal stoned weirdness.

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from The Parish Music Box
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-heavy-drinkers.html

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html

Mick Farren at Rock's Back Pages
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/mick-farren-et-al-at-rocks-back-pages.html

Bart Lancia told me about Yes' own festival
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/yes-announces-yestival-one-day-festival.html

Merrell Fankhauser sent me this article about Ed Cassidy from 'Modern Drummer' magazine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/ed-cassidy-in-modern-drummer-mag-thanks.html

Vintage style with Grace Slick
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/link-vintage-style-grace-slick-of.html

And finally. Do I look like the kind of bloke who will hi-jack a blog about music to make a political point? No, of course not; this story is only in because of the involvement of Brian May from Queen.NOT! Last year it was benefits claimants, the year before pedophiles, this year's public enemy is Meles meles, the Eurasian badger.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-badger-song-by-queens-brian-may.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

* 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 two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?