The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
Beltaine/Bealtaine/May Day is probably my favourite
day of the year. It is a profoundly magickal day and one which I cherish very
much. It also means that no-one is likely to get much sense out of me today. It
is also the feast day of St Joseph the Worker, so I never know whether to play
'The Internationale' or 'Summer is acumen in'. So I am sat in my study looking
out of the window at my trees which, in the last few days only, have sprouted
new pale green leaves, and will soon have their naked boughs covered in their
summer finery. Today I am happily sitting alone listening to the intensely
psychotically beautiful music of Black Box Recorder, and writing deathless
prose.
I note with sadness that Nigel and Sue have
cancelled their Paranorth conference in September because of "lack of ticket
sales". I know what they mean. This year, so far, we have sold very few advance
tickets for The Weird Weekend. I am not going to cancel, because it would not be
fair, but I would be very grateful if people who are planning to come would buy
advance tickets soon, if only to improve my blood pressure and allay my
incipient paranoia.
And just in case you missed it, the latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (which
can be read at
www.gonzoweekly.com), It
features - amongst other things - Hawkwind's Hawkeaster weekend in exclusive
words and pictures, interviews with Corky Laing of Mountain, and Gary Green of
Gentle Giant, Steve Ignorant, the Dalai Lama, and more news, reviews, views,
interviews and giant otter shrews (OK, no Central African insectivores which
feed largely on freshwater crabs, 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: Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin,
AC/DC, The Libertines, Damon Albarn, Morrisey, Paul McCartney, Auburn, Liz
Lenten, Barbara Dickson, Circulus, Iona, Merrell Fankhauser, Karnataka, Genre
Peak, Steve Hackett, Steve Ignorant, Asia, Mick Abrahams, Clearlight, John
Greaves, Hugh Hopper, Alain Blesing, Galahad, Rick Wakeman, Andy Colquhoun, The
Prog Collective, Clepsydra, The Deviants, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Captain
Beefheart, Pink Fairies, Corky Laing, Three Friends, Gentle Giant, Justin
Beiber, One Direction, The Beatles, Jackson 5, Elvis Presley, Abba, Elegant
Simplicity, Epica, The Fierce and the Dead, Generation Kill, Moonsorrow
These issues (and the current one) can be downloaded at
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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
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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?
