Thursday, May 08, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN WONDERS WHY

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
 
Yesterday was a very pleasant and productive one, mostly during which I wandered purposefully through the sacred groves of Academe, tutoring Jessica for her English Lit GCSE (and getting more ad more disillusioned with the current education system as I did so). In the evening two delightful young ladies (Chloe and Sophie) came down to record a song they had written, and there was bean lasagna for tea. Things don't get much better than this.
 
Today, however, is not one I have been looking forward to. I have a serious meeting with my diabetic nurse at 2:30, which will probably result in me being on insulin, because my sugar levels rise despite me being a pretty good chap and behaving myself dietwise.
 
This June sees a very special anniversary – no, in fact it sees two special anniversaries; Forty years ago, in 1974, Wally Hope started the Stonehenge free festival, and thirty years ago, in 1984, was the last event at the stones before Thatcher demolished it.
 
Our good friend Oz Hardwick has suggested that – in the same way as we did a montage of reader’s memories for the Hawkeaster event – we do a collection of memories from people who have been at the last Stonehenge festival.  However, as we had already invited Wally Dean to write a retrospective of the first Stonehenge festival, it seemed like a jolly good idea to extend Oz Hardwick’s concept and get memories, photographs, and even film from those people who attended either of them. These will appear in the summer solstice edition of Gonzo Weekly.  What, you don’t know who Gonzo Weekly are?  Wash your mind out with soap and check out www.gonzoweekly.com.
 
Cream Drummer Ginger Baker to Release First New Album in 16 years
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/cream-drummer-ginger-baker-to-release.html
 
 
 
Never One for Striped Trousers: Talking Shop with Chris Squire
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/never-one-for-striped-trousers-talking.html
 
 
 
This week's issue of Gonzo Weekly is here. I was up until 4:00 on Saturday morning finishing it, accompanied (except for the last ten minutes) by my wonderful wife and helpmeet Corinna. This issue (up at www.gonzoweekly.com) features - amongst other things - Rick Wakeman at the Royal Albert Hall in exclusive words and pictures, interviews with Keith Levene the founding gunslinger of both The Clash and PiL, René van Commenée (aka Mr Averell) and David Jackson (ex of Van Der Graaf Generator, and the legendary Italian prog band PFM. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and golden mantled tree kangaroos (OK, no arobeal macropods from Irian Jaya, 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: Rick Wakeman, Roger Daltrey, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Wilko Johnson, Galahad, Ginger Baker, Keith Levene, Clepsydra, Iona, Erik Norlander, Steve Ignorant, Beatles, Marillion, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Sub Reality Sandwich, Bob Hoskins, Jean Philippe Rykiel, Joey Molland, David Jackson, René van Commenée, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Clearlight, Planet Earth Rock ‘n’ Roll Orchestra, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Mr Averell, Xtul, PFM, Pattie Boyd, Yes, Steve Howe, 1D, Goresoerd, Hell, In Process, Indoctrine, Manegarm
 
 
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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