It has been a strange few days. On Friday and
Saturday I was up until stupid o'clock doing first the magazine, and second
recording. On Saturday my dear nephew also turned up to see me and wine was
drunk. Earlier that evening I also tried absinthe for the first time, and I am
afraid that I was not impressed. I had no psychoactive effects apart from
feeling mildly nauseous, and actually thought that it was rather nasty. But
thank you to martin Eve for bringing it down. I always like to try new
experiences even if they are ones that I do not think that I will want to
repeat. I am taking the rest of today off, and hopefully tomorrow will dawn
bright and fair, and there will be another jolly week ahead of us.
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly, 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
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other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly
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* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to
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responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
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* 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. 
