THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS WEARING A FALSE BEARD

It is another beautiful day here in North Devon. This is the best summer for years. Graham is doing some arcane repairs to the conservatory, Prudence is sunbathing (with her pink bits covered in sunscreen) and the kittens are causing mayhem. Plans for this year's Weird Weekend continue apace; it may or may not be the last one, but it is certainly going to be a bloody good one. There are two main problems: firstly that the team who helped me run it has dwindles for a whole slew of reasons, none of them nasty, and the other is rising costs have made it more expensive to put the event on each year, and more expensive for people to get here. So I really don't know: we shall wait and see. One totally off topic recommendation is the posthumous album by Ray Manzanek together with Roy Rogers. The album really is very peculiar in parts, but well worth a listen...

What's new on the Gonzo Daily?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com

 

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from Michael Des Barres
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/gonzo-track-of-day-michael-des-barres.html

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_25.html

 

Portuguese review of the Dutch Woodstock
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/portuguese-review-of-dutch-woodstock.html

 

Rick Wakeman tells the story of the mellotron
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/rick-wakeman-tells-story-of-mellotron.html

 

Judy Dyble review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/judy-dyble-review.html

 

New music from Mimi Page
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/mimi-page-seven-lions-fevers-ft.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 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?