THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN RETURNS TO SOME SEMBLANCE OF NORMALITY

Well, another Weird Weekend is over. So many people pleaded with me not to finish the event that at the last minute I changed my mind and decided that my Augusts would not be the same without them. So the event will continue. I had a health scare yesterday and I thought I was having a heart attack on stage. I wasn't; it was a mixture of the heat, the stress and lack of sleep, but it reminded me of dear old Mick Farren. I had planned to retire from doing our annual convention mostly because of my health problems. But I have always aspired in many ways to be like Mick. Farren died on stage doing what he had always done; he died "with his boots on" and was a crazy-passionate anarchist to the last. I think you can draw your own inferences from this.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_19.html

Today's Track of the Day is by the Satoko Fujii Quartet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-satoko-fujii.html

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

Chris Squire interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/chris-squire-interview.html

Steve Hillage review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/steve-hillage-review_19.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 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?