Thursday, October 23, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS AND SKIPS MERRILY

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
 
One of the first things that I did when I first got Internet access back in 1997 was to sign up to the free service provided by the British National Formulary (BNF). As both a qualified nurse, and someone who has been prescribed a lot of various medication over the past 20 years, I like to keep abreast of what is being put into my, and my friends and family's, bodies in the name of healing. A few days ago I discovered that the service is changing, and instead of getting it for free I am now expected to pay nearly £300 for annual access to the BNF and BNF (Children). What did I do? I ranted about capitalist pigs for twenty minutes and then went onto eBay and bought a paperback copy of the current edition for a tenner. That tell'd 'em!
 
And wonders will never cease. Scott Walker has made an album with tunes, and without pointless silly noises. The collaboration with Sunn o))) is the first listenable album he has made in twenty years, and whilst firmly in avant garde territory is possibly his best record since Nite Flights in 1980. Max Blake writes: "I found myself nodding my head with the rhythm at one point. I felt disgusted with myself, and listened to the second movement of 'And who shall go to the ball? ...'"
 
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Fire Merchants - Ignition - Live @ Music Machine LA 12-1-89
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/gonzo-track-of-day-fire-merchants.html
Legendary YES Singer/Songwriter Jon Anderson and Counting Crows Matt Malley To Release Charity Single “The Family Circle”
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/legendary-yes-singersongwriter-jon.html
RICK WAKEMAN: WaveLength uses celebs to support fight against loneliness
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/rick-wakeman-wavelength-uses-celebs-to.html
Robert Wyatt: Different Every Time
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/robert-wyatt-different-every-time.html
 
 
Jon Anderson, Matt Malley, Yes, Hawkwind, Genesis and Tommy James & The Shondells fans had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#100) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
 
It has Jon Anderson on the cover, and features an interview with Matt Malley about his collaboration with Jon Anderson on a charity single released today. But there's more! Doug Harr rewrites the screenplay for the controversial new Genesis documentary, we send the editor to a Desert Island, Davey Curtis was at Hawkeaster and was just about sober enough to write some of it down (but took loads of pics), and Jon asks whether music has to be age appropriate. We also learn about Tommy James and the Mafia. There are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the massively talented Jaki and Tim are back with their submarine and Maisie the cow. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and doves making coos (OK, no musical members of the Columbinidae, 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!!! And yes, Happy Birthday to us!
 
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!
 
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
 

*  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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange cat?
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