THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN WAS UP LATE

And so it begins. The 2013 Weird Weekend starts this evening as various folk from far and wide descend upon my garden in search of margaritas. The next three days will be fraught and busy, but if it all goes well it will still be my favourite weekend of the year. I will still be reading my e-mails and answering telephone calls, but unless things are particularly urgent I would be very grateful if you don't contact me until early next week. My three juvenile helpers are being totally brilliant. The Weird Weekend has always relied on exploitative child labour, and I see no reason why this proud tradition should not continue.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html

Today's Track of the Day is my favourite song by Fairport Convention
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-fairport.html

Tribute Concert for Ex-Jefferson Airplane Drummer
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/tribute-concert-for-ex-jefferson.html

‘I think he was playing hard to get’: Greg Lake on convincing Carl Palmer to join Emerson Lake and Palmer
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-think-he-was-playing-hard-to-get-greg.html

‘It’s got a unique flow to it’: Billy Sherwood completes work on new album by Star Trek’s William Shatner
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/its-got-unique-flow-to-it-billy.html

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