The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
It is Sunday so it's doggerell day
the time I
let my inner muse play
and amuse myself with stupid rhymes
as I always do
at about this time
I was up stupidly late last night
recording
music then getting tight
my nephew and I were up past four
and it was even
worse the night before
So I have news for you my friends
I'm gonna
spend the rest of this holiday weekend
in the company of my family and
dogs
(at least when I've finished writing the blogs)
But now I have to let you know,
I've had enough
of the rhymes, and lets get on with the show
Last night Corinna and I were up to stupid o'clock working on the
latest issue of Gonzo Weekly, which can be read at
www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Steve Ignorant
(late of Crass) on the cover and features exclusive interviews with the man
himself, Ken Pustelnik (late of The Groundhogs), exclusive live accounts of The
Pink Fairies triumphant return, and Clepsydra's appearance at Rosfest, and a
poignant article by Richard Stellar entitled The Inspiration of a Holocaust
Survivor and Hero about how the story of Curt Lowens inspired composer Sharon
Farber. There are also new shows from the peculiar multiverse of Sub Reality
Sandwich (this week they are in their submarine off the coast of Australia with
special guest Lyn Paul) from Friday Night Progressive, and from the
multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and Victorian flues (OK, no 19th Century heating
ducts, 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 in #79 is Yes, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Billy
Sherwood, Jon Davison, Steve Ignorant, Ken Pustelnik, The Pink Fairies, Led
Zeppelin, Sir Paul McCartney, David Gilmour, The Beach Boys, Mick Harvey, Judge
Smith, Michael des Barres, Merrell Fankhauser, Galahad, Auburn, Liz Lenten, Jack
Bruce, Ginger Baker, Wise Williams, Barbara Dickson, Keith Levene, Marianne
Faithfull, Grace Slick, Transatlantic, Sub Reality Sandwich, Friday Night
Progressive, Jean Philippe Rykiel, Joey Molland, David Jackson & Rene van
Commenee, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Clearlight, Planet Earth Rock ‘n’ Roll
Orchestra, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Tumblewild, Hollis Brown, PFM,
Richard Stellar, Clepsydra, Marie Osmond, Donny Osmond, Carlos Santana, Justin
Bieber, One Direction, Elvis Presley, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Lives &
Times, Twelfth Night, Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows
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!
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* 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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
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