Thursday, May 01, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SINGS

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
 
Beltaine/Bealtaine/May Day is probably my favourite day of the year. It is a profoundly magickal day and one which I cherish very much. It also means that no-one is likely to get much sense out of me today. It is also the feast day of St Joseph the Worker, so I never know whether to play 'The Internationale' or 'Summer is acumen in'. So I am sat in my study looking out of the window at my trees which, in the last few days only, have sprouted new pale green leaves, and will soon have their naked boughs covered in their summer finery. Today I am happily sitting alone listening to the intensely psychotically beautiful music of Black Box Recorder, and writing deathless prose.
 
I note with sadness that Nigel and Sue have cancelled their Paranorth conference in September because of "lack of ticket sales". I know what they mean. This year, so far, we have sold very few advance tickets for The Weird Weekend. I am not going to cancel, because it would not be fair, but I would be very grateful if people who are planning to come would buy advance tickets soon, if only to improve my blood pressure and allay my incipient paranoia.
 
 
 
A cold and broken Hallelujah: singing priest removed from YouTube
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-cold-and-broken-hallelujah-singing.html
 
‘Groovy’ gran calls for plaque at legendary music venue
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/groovy-gran-calls-for-plaque-at.html
 
 
 

And just in case you missed it, the latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (which can be read at www.gonzoweekly.com), It features - amongst other things - Hawkwind's Hawkeaster weekend in exclusive words and pictures, interviews with Corky Laing of Mountain, and Gary Green of Gentle Giant, Steve Ignorant, the Dalai Lama, and more news, reviews, views, interviews and giant otter shrews (OK, no Central African insectivores which feed largely on freshwater crabs, 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!!!
 
The full list of artists covered this time is: Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Libertines, Damon Albarn, Morrisey, Paul McCartney, Auburn, Liz Lenten, Barbara Dickson, Circulus, Iona, Merrell Fankhauser, Karnataka, Genre Peak, Steve Hackett, Steve Ignorant, Asia, Mick Abrahams, Clearlight, John Greaves, Hugh Hopper, Alain Blesing, Galahad, Rick Wakeman, Andy Colquhoun, The Prog Collective, Clepsydra, The Deviants, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Captain Beefheart, Pink Fairies, Corky Laing, Three Friends, Gentle Giant, Justin Beiber, One Direction, The Beatles, Jackson 5, Elvis Presley, Abba, Elegant Simplicity, Epica, The Fierce and the Dead, Generation Kill, Moonsorrow
 
 
 
These issues (and the current one) can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
 
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*  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 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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