The Gonzo Daily - Friday
Today started nicely. I woke up late and came
downstairs to find three tracks from the forthcoming Atkins-May Project album
waiting for me. More experimental and proggy than their previous work, it is
nice to see them taking risks and breaking new ground. Al even sounds like Tom
Waits on one track. Very good work chaps. In other news, I have had two reports
of Britain's rarest snake from different parts of North Devon. The Smooth Snake
is one of those herps for which the UK is at the utter northern point of their
range, and is only found naturally in a few parts of southern England. However,
like the swallowtail butterfly, global warming seems not to be all bad news, as
it looks - excitingly - as if it may be increasing its range. There has been a
reintroduction project into parts of south Devon from which it vanished fifty
years ago, but - as far as I am aware - nothing of the sort in North Devon. So
are they increasing their range naturally? Or has there been an unofficial
introduction project? Or, most tantalisingly, have they been there all along?
Other reports from Combe Martin in recent years suggests the
latter.
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Cruise to the Edge, with previously unpublished pictures.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!!!
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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
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