THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS BESET BY IDIOTS

And so the week that runs up to the Weird Weekend begins. Some people have been towers of strength, others less so, and some proven to be broken  reeds, but that is the way of life. Other people are capable of the most extraordinary acts of kindness. A couple who came to last year's event wrote to me this morning. They are not coming this year but sent a cheque for the value of two tickets as a donation to the cause. If the event does continue (and I really still don't know at this stage) it will be be because of people like them and the lady in the Village Shop who yesterday told me how much she enjoys the event every year.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html

Today's Track of the Day is a track from Van der Graaf Generator
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-van-der-graaf.html

Steve Howe to release album of demos
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-perform-and-record-these-basic-ideas.html

Stephen Stills Eyeing Second ‘Rides’ Album
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/stephen-stills-eyeing-second-rides-album.html

Steve Hackett Interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/steve-hackett-interview.html

The Joy Division video game
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/joy-divisions-love-will-tear-us-apart.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?