THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SAYS OINK

Yesterday turned out to be rather a nice one. I interviewed the legendary Mick Abrahams, founding guitarist of both Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig in the morning, and the equally legendary Judy Dyble (a lady for whom I have the utmost respect) in the afternoon. I have had a pre-release copy of her fantastic new album for weeks, and now you will be able to hear it too, as I have edited excerpts from each song into the podcast which will be avail;able on the Gonzo site sometime today.

 

The weather is glorious here, and I think I can truthfully say that this is the nicest summer weather we have had in years. Let's hope it lasts. I realise with a start that we are only ten weeks to the Weird Weekend, so I would seriously suggest that you buy your tickets now!

 

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from Blue Floyd
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-blue-floyd-wish.html

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_892.html

 

New books from the doyens of what was once the underground press
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/underground-press-mick-farrenfelix.html

 

OFF TOPIC BUT INTERESTING: The bird DJ
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/completely-off-topic-but-interesting.html

 

We say goodbye to Tom Sharpe
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/those-we-have-lost-tom-sharpe-1928-2013.html

 

More on Joey Covington's death
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-on-joey-covingtons-death.html

 

Geoff Downes talks about Steve Howe
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-still-have-good-rapport-geoff-downes.html

 

More on the badger cull, and Queen's guitarist Brian May. I make no apologies for covering this in such depth, but it is an important issue, and one that is n danger of being whitewashed over.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-on-brian-mays-anti-badger-cull.html

 

A video review of the new Hawkwind box set
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/prog-review-unboxing-warrior-on-edge-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 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?