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The Gonzo Daily - Saturday

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I have been a fan of Gary Clail for many years. Last night I spoke to him about his massively cool comeback record in what was one of the most peculiar interviews that I have ever done. The thing that impressed me most about the whole thing wasn't that Gary was massively excited (as a newt) and completely off on one. It was coming up midnight on Friday for heaven’s sake, and if it wasn't for the fact that I try not to drink two nights in succession I would probably have been in the same state, but that both the lyrical content of the whole thing, and the zeitgeist of the interview as a whole tie in perfectly with the way that my head has been going every since I read John Higgs’ massively peculiar biography of the KLF last week. Since then I have been reading about the Discordian movement; I have read Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger, and am now finally reading Illuminatus! And – as I discovered many years ago when my old friends Tony “Doc” Shiels and John Michell took me (both together and separately) on a psychometrical journey which hatchecked both reality and sanity at the door, Gary’s ranting and rapping about church, state and money have the Discordian mindset scrawled all over them. Like Mick Farren and Bill Drummond, he is as mad as a hatter, and completely and utterly spot on. Even when he was claiming to be either Jesus or a Roman Emperor (I am not quite sure which), it was a privilege to speak to him.
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8189.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is by Sex Gang Children
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-sex-gang.html

 

Canadian review of Blodwyn Pig
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/canadian-review-of-blodwyn-pig.html

 

Fairport Convention lead first acts for Acoustic Festival of Britain
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/fairport-convention-lead-first-acts-for.html

 

A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Signed Roger Dean print
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-cabinet-of-curiosities-signed-roger.html

 

Dweezil Zappa keeping father Frank's music alive
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/dweezil-zappa-keeping-father-franks.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: www.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?