Friday, August 22, 2014

HIP HIP HOORAY FOR THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

The Gonzo Daily - Friday
 
Today is my fifty fifth birthday, and I am overwhelmed with all the messages of love and kindness. Thank you to all of you. I sat down to write this about nine hours ago, and since then there has been a constant stream of telephone calls and visitors, all coming to help me celebrate 55 years on this planet. In those years I have learned many things, but the most important of them is that all you really need IS love, and that everything else is subservient to this. Everything I do in my writing, my music, my activism and even my science (such as it is) is aimed at bringing people together and breaking down the artificial barriers that we all put up between us. I was going to write a homily on the subject, but now I realise that you sweet dear people all know this already.
 
Many congratulations to my brother Richard on his promotion to Lt. Colonel (despite having an authority hating anarchist as a brother) and my niece Jessica for getting a mighty seven GCSEs (nearly twice what I got back in the day).
 
Gordon Giltrap promises runs and tales
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gordon-giltrap-promises-runs-and-tales.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - All You Need is love
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gonzo-track-of-day-beatles-all-you-need.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_22.html
Scots singer reveals uncle was killed in Battle of the Somme
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/scots-singer-reveals-uncle-was-killed.html
‘I don’t mean to sound like everyone’s dull’: Jon Davison admits Yes’ new Heaven and Earth is ‘easy listening’
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/i-dont-mean-to-sound-like-everyones.html
 

The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#91) is available to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Stuart Nicholson from Galahad on the cover and an interview with him inside. We have Merrell Fankhauser's Palmdale concert in pictures, and the story of what happened when the Gonzo grande fromage visited the stage adaptation of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Rick Wakeman fans will find a critique of the new box set critiqued by Doug Harr. There are also new shows from the wonderfully eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, from Canterbury Sans Frontières and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny (hopefully fully recovered from his recent illness) a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and long nosed potoroos (OK, no weird little marsupials, 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!!!
 
A couple of links are missing, and the date for Tim and Jaki's show is wrong, but this is because we rushed it out to have it finished before the great and the good of Forteana descended on us for the Weird Weekend. I hope they will forgive me.
 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
 
All issues from #70 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. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
 
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http://eepurl.com/r-VTD
 
As well as the Gonzo Weekly, there is a daily service called - wait for it - The Gonzo Daily, and you can subscribe for free HERE:
http://eepurl.com/OvPez
 
 
*  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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