The Gonzo Daily - Saturday
Strange days, and rapidly getting stranger. On the
good side: Two sightings of the massively elusive Camberwell Beauty - a
Scandinavian butterfly that occasionally visits the UK, but as far as I am aware
doesn't breed here. Also on the good side: Dave McMann is out of hospital -
perhaps my half assed attempts at magick worked? Perhaps he is just a bolshy
bastard who doesn't like being told what to do by the NHS. But it is good to
know he is still doing what he does best - being Dave McMann.
On the bad side: My old mate Jon Driscoll, aka Jon
Beast, comedian, promoter, poet, bon viveur, and warm up man for Carter the
Unstoppable Sex Machine has died. Another part of my mis-spent youth has gone
down the can. In his memory: the only couplet of the only piece of his poetry I
remember:
Go mental,drink 25 beers
Go mental, stick poo in
your ears
God bless you Jon. The world is now a slightly
poorer and less funny place than it was a few days back. In a world run by
psychopaths, where the people ruling swathes of the Middle East have started
crucifying their opponents and where our own country is getting drowned in a
maze of bureaucracy technology and greed we need fat bastards exhorting us to
"Go Mental" more than ever.
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#88) is available
to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Joey Molland,
the last man standing of the mighty Badfinger on the front cover and an
interview with him inside. It also includes an exclusive interview with the
author of a new biography of The Waterboys, with an exclusive extract from the
book. Yes fans will find a critique of the new album and a rundown of the
extraordinary events that took place yesterday as Jon Anderson launched his new
band. Elsewhere in the issue Doug Harr interviews the founding members of Brand
X and Galahad release the cover art for their forthcoming EP. There are also
new shows from the wonderfully eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, 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 mysterious clues (OK, no peculiar objects left by
malefactors, 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 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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