The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
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I
am in a surprisingly good mood today. The day started well with another sneak
preview of a track from the forthcoming Atkins-May project album. It is a
complete stonker, and I confidently expect their third album to be their best
yet. I truly like the new prog metal approach. Other exciting news comes from
Nottinghamshire where a Camberwell beauty was seen the other day. This seems to
be the first record in the UK since 2012. For those of you not in the know, this
is one of the rarest butterflies found in Britain. The name implies that it
comes from Camberwell (like the carrots) but actually this is only where the
type specimen was found. L Hugh Newman (one of my great heroes) proved that this
is a Scandinavian creature which usually gets imported accidentally with
shipments of logs often from Finland, so for one to turn up in Nottinghamshire
is a rare thing indeed.
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#84) is here to
read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Mick Abrahams
on the front cover and features an exclusive interview with this legendary
guitarist who amongst other things founded both Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig. It
also has a letter from Daevid Allen in hospital, Echo and the Bunnymen live, an
archive chat between Tim Rundall and Mick Farren and Keith Levene remembering
his days as guitarist in The Clash. There are also new shows from Friday Night
Progressive, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and boxing kangaroos (OK, no
pugilistic marsupials, 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 featured is: Mick
Abrahams, Yes, Jon Davison, Rick Wakeman, ABWH, Jon Anderson, Allman Brothers,
Lana del Rey, Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain, Prince, Iron Maiden, Bruce
Dickinson, Robert Plant, Daevid Allen, Michael des Barres, Hunt Emerson, Keith
Levene, Auburn, Liz Lenten, Atkins-May Project, Clepsydra, Renaissance, Galahad,
Eric Burdon, Elvis Presley, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Felix
Dennis, Eli Wallach, Gerry Conlon, Teenie Hodges, Bobby Womack, Clearlight,
Rocket Scientists, Aviator, Ant-Bee, Steve Hillage, Erik Norlander, The Ghost of
a Sabre Tooth Tiger, Neil Young, Echo & the Bunnymen, Mick Farren, Hawkwind,
Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Beatles, Erasure, Osmonds, One Direction, Spice
Girls, Ozzy Osbourne, Monkees, Alice Cooper, Weird Weekend, Gazpacho, Subject to
Thoughts, The Symphony of Screams, Nine Treasures
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
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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
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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 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?
What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?
