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The Gonzo Daily - Friday

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Yesterday it was announced that “Plans to roll out the controversial badger cull pilots nationwide across England have been dropped by Owen Paterson after a damning independent report found the shoots were not effective or humane". This isn’t a complete victory, because the culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire are still going ahead, although I am sure that plans are afoot from the so-called “extreme elements” to disrupt them further and make them unworkable. I am proud of the small part that I played in this campaign. I doubt whether the song and video that we made, featuring Graham dressed up as David Cameron and two glove puppet badgers had that much effect, although a certain socialist pop group got huffy with me accusing me of not taking parliament seriously, a charge to which I will gladly plead guilty.

 

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Byrds - "Hickory Wind"
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/gonzo-track-of-day-byrds-hickory-wind.html

 

Dan Wooding on Rick Wakeman
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/shot-on-steps-of-royal-college-of-music.html

 

‘I had lots of material’: Jon Davison on the forthcoming Yes album
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/i-had-lots-of-material-jon-davison-on.html

 

Chris Squire - Yes bassist Chris Squire writing autobiography
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/chris-squire-yes-bassist-chris-squire.html

 

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. North American tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/acid-mothers-temple-melting-paraiso-ufo.html

 

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html

 

The next issue of Gonzo Weekly is well under way, and assuming that everything goes according to plan will be out tomorrow. It will feature interviews with Erik Norlander on the new Rocket Scientists album, Judge Smith on the early days of Van der Graaf Generator, and Jakko Jakszyk on the forthcoming ELP reissue and the King Crimson rehearsals. There are also features on The Psychedelic Warlords, Keith Levene, Acid Mothers Temple, Galahad and more news, reviews, views, interviews and Matschie's tree-kangaroos (OK, no arboreal macropods from New Guinea, 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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Read the last issue here
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/03/gonzo-weekly-71.html

 

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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?