Tuesday, May 06, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS AND SKIPS

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
It may be Tuesday, but I have that Monday morning feeling, and am finding it inbcredibly hard to get anything done. I am not depressed, not ill, not preoccupied, but just massively unmotivated. The trees in the garden are now all but covered in fresh new foliage, and it is getting to the stage that the lawn needs to be mowed at least twice a week, which will keep Mark R happy. The latest butterfly news is that a swallowtail (presumably of the mainland European race P.m.gorganus was seen in Kent a few days ago.
For those of you who don't know, the British race of the Swallowtail (P.maechon britannicus) is our largest and one of our rarest butterflies. It is now restricted to a small bit of marshy East Anglia where it only has one larval foodplant. The much more widespread and hardy European race of the swallowtail is much more widely distributed, has several foodplants and - it is hypothesised - was a British resident until about 200 years ago. Occasional specimens stray across the channel into the UK and last year at least one pair (in Dorset) bred. Could they be about to stage a comeback? It would be great if they did, except for one important point. If they do recolonise the United Kingdom it means that they will probably interbreed with the indigenous British race at some point, and we will end up gaining a beautiful new resident, but losing one of our rarest butterflies. Catch 22 huh?
Ultimate Power-Trio Bassist Jack Bruce Steps On thE Silver Rails
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/ultimate-power-trio-bassist-jack-bruce.html
Flatulent dinosaurs and tales from the centre of The Earth
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/flatulent-dinosaurs-and-tales-from.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Captain Beefheart - Observatory Crest
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/gonzo-track-of-day-captain-beefheart.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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