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The Gonzo Daily - Thursday

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Yesterday I received a very welcome package from the United States. It was my hard copy of the excellent debut album by XNA that I have been raving about for the last couple of weeks, and I would like to thank their singer David very much for expediting it. In recent years one has heard a lot about the decline of CD sales in favour of downloads. I have always thought that a lot of this isn't about the convenience of downloading MP3s but because the CD itself is a fairly unlovely object, and furthermore one that is far harder to fetishise than vinyl used to be. But the XNA album is something else - one of the nicest packages I have seen in a long time, with the CD itself encased in a 5"x5" harback book, lavishly illustrated with all the songwords. This is a gorgeous artifact in itself, and furthermore one which complements the sublime music perfectly. Packages like this raise the bar for us all: lavish packaging was de rigeur in the mid 1970s, but is something which has sadly fallen away over the years. I would like to think that with the advent of XNA it was back.

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_12.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is by The Deviants
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-mick-farren-and.html

 

Rick Wakeman Interviews Adam Wakeman (Backstage at Planet Rockstock 2013)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/rick-wakeman-interviews-adam-wakeman.html

 

JON ANDERSON: An evening with the voice of Yes
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/an-evening-with-voice-of-yes.html

 

The multi-talented John Allison explains what the sixties were really all about
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-massively-entertaining-john-allison.html

 

FOR THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED: The latest episode of my monthly webTV show
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/for-those-of-you-interested-latest.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: 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?