THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HAS A DIFFICULT TIME OF IT

It is, I am sure, too much to expect, but wouldn't it be lovely if the summer was always like this? I love this weather even if it is not conducive to productivity, because it makes me even more soporific than usual. There are more butterflies in the garden than there have been for years: I saw six species the other afternoon. Much to Richard's chagrin, the larger moths are also flying - we had a visit from a female oak eggar that terrified the poor lad. Preparations for next weekend at the Summer of Love festie are well underway. It is actually the first festival I have been to in 20 years, since I saw African Headcharge (who were brilliant, the On U sound system, John Martyn, The Manic Steet Preachers (who were awful) and Steve Harley at a three dayer in Milton Keynes back in 1993. Golly I am getting old. 

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

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_23.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is from David Bedford
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-song-of-white-horse.html

 

Jon Anderson in Manchester
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/accrington-prog-rock-legend-jon.html

 

Helen McCookerybook at the Performing Prejudice Symposium
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/helen-mccookerybook-performing.html

 

Eric Burdon video feature
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-pace-report-burdon-nistic-warrior.html

 

Daevid Allen family favourites
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-dad-is-daevid-allen-from-gong.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?