THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN THINKS AHEAD

For the last thirty years I have been trying to get hold of a copy of Ken Campbell's 'School For Clowns'. It was originally shown on an ITV children's programme, repeated once and then forgotten about. Even Ken didn't havce a copy. I know, because I asked him repeatedly. Now it has been released as an extra on the DVD box of  Dramarama and it is still as anarchically wonderful as ever. I laughed all the way through. It has to be said, however, that Corinna sat looking stony faced with her "my husband is an idiot, and furthermore a puerile one" expression on her lovely visage. Richard Freeman arrives later for a Weird Weekend meeting, and I am very much looking forward to showing it to him. I wonder whether he will like it as much as me...

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_31.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is from Godsticks
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-gonzo-track-of-day-godsticks.html

 

Luke Haines honours Mick Farren with reading at Borderline show
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/luke-haines-honours-mick-farren-with.html

 

‘You never knew what somebody was going to do’: Greg Lake on King Crimson’s improvisational start
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/you-never-knew-what-somebody-was-going.html

 

More on the Eric Burdon Israeli concert
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/more-on-eric-burdon-israeli-concert.html

 

Barbara Dickson appears in remarkable new opera
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-bargees-wife-opera-at-gloucester.html

 

Steve Hillage review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/sdteve-hillage-review.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?