THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS A LITTLE FATIGUED

This really is the nicest summer that we have had in years. Mother Nature must be trying very hard to make amends for the diabolically nasty late winter and spring that we had. I have heard nothing from the team in Sumatra, although I had a telephone call this morning from a French TV company trying to contact them. However, the line was terrible, her English wasn't too good, and my French is of the "ou est la plume de ma tante?" variety, vaguely remembered from my mis-spent schooldays, and as the girl on the other end of the line wasn't my aunt, and probably didn't have a pen, my schoolboy French wasn't much use, so it was a fairly unsatisfactory telephone call on both sides.

 

Yesterday I received a CD from the lovely Liz Lenten; the songs recorded during her recent sojourn in Nashville. Bloody hell they are good, and some of them are worldbeatingly outstanding. I look forward to continuing my acquaintanceship with the tracks before reporting back both to Liz, and to the Gonzo readership.

 

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

 

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from Rupert Hine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-arrested-by-you.html

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_5.html

 

Stephen Stills plays Iggy Pop (honest)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-music-from-stephen-stills-including.html

 

Belgian review of The Dutch Woodstock
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/belgian-review-of-dutch-woodstock.html

 

Reembering their first Kevin Ayers gig
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-first-kevin-ayers-gig.html

 

Technical article on Rick Wakeman's microphones
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/technical-article-on-rick-wakemans.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?