The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
This s quite possibly the nicest summer for years
weatherwise. I only hope (touch wood) that it continues. I had an email
yesterday from dear Erik Norlander offering some goodies as door prizes, raffle
prizes etc for the forthcoming Weird Weekend. What a bloody nice fellow he is!
On the distaff side, I have got the beginnings of a summer cold, and am dosing
myself to kingdom come with Lemsip. So all the rumours of Jon Downes on drugs
are - today - completely true.
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#82) is here to read or download at
www.gonzoweekly.com. It has the Wally
Hope on the front cover and features an interview with Dean Wally, who is the
current custodian of his ashes. There is an exclusive review of Yes on the
Cruise to the Edge, with previously unpublished pictures. There is news of Mick
Abrahams' new album which features guest appearances by a Stone, a Mann, and a
Whitesnake, and there are pictures of Genre Peak in the studio. There is an in
depth look at a new book about the idiosyncratic 4AD records, and a drunken
ramble about Rik Mayall that dictated at 4:00am the other day with the best part
of a bottle of bourbon inside of me. There are also new shows from the peculiar
multiverse of Sub Reality Sandwich, from Canterbury Sans Frontières, from Friday
Night Progressive, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and Gilbert's Potoroos (OK,
no specimens f Australia's rarest mammal, 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!
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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:
www.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?
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