The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
It is the first Sunday in May
and there's
something that I have to say
that I hope that you all want to hear
cos I
really love this time of year
Every week at about this time
I write the Sunday
blogs in rhyme
partially to cause confusement
but mostly for my own
amusement
I must hurry if you beg my pardon
cos there will
soon be druids in my garden
I tell you this (and I'm no liar)
they've come
to make a Beltane fire
So I must get on with the blogs,
before I go to
fuss my dogs
so before my rhymes completely pall
Beltane blessings to you
all
This week's issue of Gonzo Weekly is here. I was up
until 4:00 saturday morning finishing it, accompanied (except for the last ten
minutes) by my wonderful wife and helpmeet Corinna. This issue (which is 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 a
peculiar story about a band called Xtul, and the latest episides of both
Canterbury Sans Frontières (featuring an extended playlist by Robert Wyatt) and
Jaki and Tim's extraordinarily surreal and eccentric Sub Reality Sandwich. 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, Xtul, 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
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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:
http://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?
