Saturday, March 29, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS A BUSY LITTLE BEAVER

The Gonzo Daily - Saturday
 
Today has been notable for only one thing so far: the syndrome that everything I have attempted has taken infinitely longer than I had envisaged. We have had a houseful of intelligent young people working under Saskia's tutelage to refurbish the conservatory, and they have made a lot of progress. But there's lots more to do before it is open for visitors. I am letting the children choose what we exhibit there (within reason, as I still remember an 18 year old Olivia trying to wheedle me into having a tapir), and I think that their choices are sensible and interesting ones. I have no idea whether the museum roof will be fixed this year in time for us to get it ready for visitors, so the most interesting things are being brought down to the conservatory pro tempore. We are getting there slowly.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The new issue of Gonzo Weekly, in its swish new format, will be out imminently features interviews with Andy Colquhoun and Cyrille Verdeaux, a new video from Auburn, news from Acid Mothers Temple and the Dalai Lama. There are also features on Rocket Scientists, Clepsydra's private show, what happens when The Psychedelic Warlords collaborate with Michael Moorcock and a look at music written by Jews who died in the death camps.
 
The current issue is still available featuring Tim Blake, Craig High from the Psychedelic Warlords, Cyrille Verdeaux goes native, plus Acid Mothers Temple, Joey Molland remembers working with John, George and Ringo, Mice on Stilts, Steve Hillage and more news, reviews, views, interviews and and London Zoos (OK, no metropolitan menageries, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! We are also relaunching with a brand new layout and format for our 70th issue. We hope that you like it.
 
 
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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 an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?
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