Wednesday, December 17, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
 
Every year I find myself running around Barnstaple like a headless chiucken a few days before Christmas, and bemoaning the fact that I didn't do my shopping earlier. Well this year, for my fifty fifth Christmas on the planet, I am going out a week early to do what remains of my shopping in the vain hope that I never have to leave the house again until it is all over. And what is more I am taking Graham and Mother. I may be some time...
 
By the way, I don't know if I have mentioned them here before, but the mighty Sendelica are just about to release a new album. Its called 'Anima Mundi' it is very fortean and very good. For those of you who didn't know: Based in West Wales, UK. Instrumental psyche-space-rock band whose work blends early psychedelic outings, occasional heavy riffing, and electronic ambient musings. The core band in UK is currently: Pete Bingham on guitars & electronics, Glenda Pescado on bass, Jack Jackson on drums, Colin Consterfine on keys/electronics and Lee Relfe on sax and Lord Armstrong Sealand on theremin & synths. 
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Cymbalic Encounters
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/gonzo-track-of-day_17.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_17.html
Rick Wakeman Expands King Arthur And Henry VIII
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/rick-wakeman-expands-king-arthur-and.html
Atkins May Project:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/atkins-may-project.html
PETER BANKS: The Mars Tapes US review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/peter-banks-mars-tapes-us-review_17.html
 
 
Merrell Fankhauser, Lee Pomeroy, Unidentified Flying Wassnames, René van Commenée, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#108) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Merrell Fankhauser on the cover talking about his latest project that involves setting music to some apparently alien transmissions from off the coast of Malibu. Doug Harr interviews the legendary Lee Pomeroy, René van Commenée expounds at length on his Desert Island Discs, and also builds a huge musical art machine in the middle of Antwerp, Xtulk declare war on humanity and give away their new single as a Christmas gift, and there are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are back with another episode of Sub Reality Sandwich (except its not). There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and anteaters wishing to snooze (OK, nothing to do with dozy edentates, 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!!!
 

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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
 
* 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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