THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS REFRESHED AND FULL OF THE JOYS OF SPRING

Graham is just about to finish phase one of the repair work on the CFZ conservatory. It has taken several months longer than we had hoped, but now, for the first time in years, it is structurally sound, and ready to face the oncoming winter. It seems strange to be writing about the winter already, but the CFZ year is based around the Weird Weekend in mid-August, and everything throughout the first eight months of the year builds up to it. I still have no idea whether this event will be the last, but I would like to thank the many people (I was going to write 'legions of wellwishers', but although the number of letters and phone calls I have received numbers well into double figures, it is not quite 'legions', and I do my best not to indulge in hyperbole) who have written offering support, and expressing the hope that the Weird Weekend will continue. There are arguments on both sides, and this is going to be a very hard decision to make.

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_13.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is a track from AWBH
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-abwh-order-of.html

 

A review of The Dutch Woodstock
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/dutch-woodstock-review.html

 

A Judy Dyble review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/judy-dyble-review.html

 

A Steve Howe interview about Yes
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/yes-stays-true-to-its-concept-rich.html

 

Sticking with the Steve Howe motif, here is something about his new album of demos
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/steve-howes-homebrew-5.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?