The Gonzo Daily - Friday
Most of yesterday was spent filming this month's
episode of OTT. I very much hope that it will be out later today. I have just
been told about the North Devon Firefly Faery Fayre and Ball, which will be held
on Saturday 26th July 2014, any proceeds to go to The Small School in Hartland,
North Devon. This is North Devon's first celebration of faery culture, art,
crafts, and music for both children and adults, and any proceeds will go to The
Small School in Hartland, North Devon, England. The event will take place on
Saturday 26th July 2014 at the Anchor Inn in Hartland, where there is plenty of
B & B accommodation (but book early), and food will be on sale in the
evening for the ball only. There is a camping and caravan site a few yards up
the road, and local shops are just next to the pub, which also has a music
licence.
There will be a faery fayre through the day,
including stalls and children's entertainment, and a faery ball with a range of
musical acts in the evening. Things like this are important and I want to
support these people in any way that I can. There is too much ugliness,
rudeness, anger and general bad vibes in the world, and anything we can do to
address this has got to be a good thing.
This weekend's issue of Gonzo Weekly is underway,
with lots of Rick Wakeman stuff, a Tim Blake interview and a report on The
Musical Box amongst other things.
The current issue features Hawkwind, Hawkwind, and
some more Hawkwind, plus exclusive interviews with two musical legends - Keith
Levene (ex-PiL and The Clash) and Judy Dyble (founder member of Fairport
Convention and the band that was later to become King Crimson), plus stories on
Mike Rutherford, Acid Mothers Temple, Devo, Paul Whitrow, and the world premiere
of new videos by Auburn and Galahad, and more news, reviews, views, interviews
and packets of long nosed potoroos (OK, no special rabbit-sized macropodiformes,
especially in convenient packaging) 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!!!
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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?
