THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SITS AND WAITS

Next week, Richard Freeman, my old friend and colleague of the past 16 years is off to Sumatra for the fifth time. He will be accompanied by artist Adele Morse and film maker Christophe Kilian, and they will spend the next two and a bit weeks searching for evidence of the elusive orang pendek, which - if you didn't already know - is a semi-mythical upright walking ape which has been reported from the island for hundreds of years. They will be going to Gunung Tuju but also visiting the Kubu people, and there will be reports on the CFZ blogs as we get them.

Rob Ayling originally asked me to write a weekly record company newsletter. How did an ordinary record company newsletter turn into the ever expanding e-magazine that you are read each week (or that I hope that you read each week). T'is simple. This was never going to be an ordinary record company newsletter, because Gonzo is about as far from being an ordinary record company as you can be whilst still operating within the music industry. Nothing about the company is ordinary from the Managing Director to the catalogue; all are innovative, experimental and ever-so-slightly strange, and so maybe this was all pre-ordained. However, I would still like to publically thank Rob for setting me loose on an unsuspecting public and pretty well letting me do what I want. Thanks my old friend!

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from Paula Knight
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3846138858206706409#editor/target=post;postID=7532689654125313593;onPublishedMenu=overview;onClosedMenu=overview;postNum=21;src=link

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_20.html

Rick Wakeman in Taunton
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/rick-wakeman-to-perform-at-queens.html

Liam Davison review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/liam-davison-review.html

Geoff Downes interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/ask-yes-friday-14th-june-2013-geoff.html

Roy Wood helps out old pal from Wizzard
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-wizzard-idea-to-raise-cash-for-cancer.html

Behind the scenes with one of ELP's more over the top stunts
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/greg-lake-keith-actually-hurt-himself.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?