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If you are looking for a conventional biography of the KLF, don't touch 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds' by John Higgs with the proverbial bargepole. It is about as far from being a conventional biography as it is possible to get. However, if you are looking for some attempt at an explanation of why this most singular of all bands did what they did, what it meant, and what it was all for, then I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I knew it was going to be good, but I didn't realise HOW good. And I certainly wasn't expecting the KLF story to be quite so close to my own story, or that so many bit-part players in the saga were people I knew myself. If you are looking for a proper review of 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds' by John Higgs from me then you will have to wait a while. I am still computing this remarkable book and trying to work out the implications upon my own view of reality, and my own work over the past 20 years. In the meantime go out and buy the damned (in a truly Fortean context) thing. You won't be disappointed.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_2.html

Today's Track of the Day is by W.O.F who are another one of those bands on Galileo that I like a heck of a lot.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-wof-ive-woken-up.html

Hawkwind in Canada
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/hawkwind-in-canada.html

Eric Burdon to play benefit show
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/eric-burdon-to-play-benefit-show-with.html

German Merrell Fankhauser review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/german-merrell-fankhauser-review.html

Blodwyn Pig anthology at The Devil's Music
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/blodwyn-pig-anthology-cd-available.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?