THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS STEADFAST

I couldn't sleep properly last night. The wife of a very dear friend of mine is in hospital. I have only met her the once but she touched my heart and I hope that it doesn't sound too horribly new age of me, but I feel their pain. So I sat up late, when I couldn't sleep tried a quarter bottle of Happy Shopper brandy (a birthday present from Emily) as a tranquiliser, and as a consequence I overslept this morning. I was woken up by the sound of our own little pack of Canis lupus familiaris charging downstairs to greet the postman (Prudence adores him, Archie wants to rend him limb from limb). He was only delivering a new garden hose, which seems a little anti-climactic after all the sound and fury. So I was in a fractious and grumpy mood this morning. Then I watched Galen Ayers's eulogy for her father Kevin, and found it so touching that I was moved to tears. It is on the Gonzo blog this morning - check it out. You won't be sorry.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_31.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Dave Bainbridge
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-david-fitzgerald.html

Gig review: HAWKWIND, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, 24 August 2013
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/gig-review-hawkwind-shepherds-bush.html

OFF TOPIC: For those of you who wondered what I have been up to for the past few days
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/blog-post.html

John Etheridge is interviewed by Gordon Giltrap about his life as a guitarist
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/john-etheridge-is-interviewed-by-gordon.html

Kevin Ayers, Eulogy by Galen Ayers, Sa Fonda, Deià 16th August 2013
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/kevin-ayers-eulogy-by-galen-ayers-sa.html

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*  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 54 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?