The Gonzo Daily - Friday
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I
was up late last night writing deathless prose for the next issue of Gonzo
Weekly and I overslept again this morning. My doctor has put me on an extra dose
of quetiapine which makes me somewhat dozier than usual,and so my breakfast tea
has now been replaced by a couple of pints of breakfast coffee. Luckily an old
friend gave me a supersized mug for a Christmas present, and I actually find
myself enjoying coffee in quantity far more than I thought I would.
I was sent a copy of Bryan Sykes et al's paper on
the genetic examination of putative yeti and bigfoot hair (I am not sure whether
it is a pirate copy or not, so I won't thank my benefactor by name) and, to my
pleasure, I think it is an eminently reasonable piece of writing, unlike much of
the newspaper reportage which has surrounded it. My critique of it can be read
here: http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-sykes-paper-personal-view.html
And one last piece of news, as butterfly buffs will
know, one of the rarest migrant butterflies to the UK is the long tailed blue.
Occasionally, however, it arrives in large numbers and breeds here. Last year
was one of those times. The first specimen of the year has been seen, much
earlier than usual ...in Somerset! This is many miles from the hotspots of last
year. Does this herald the beginning of another bumper year? It would be nice to
think so, but don't hold yer breath!
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:
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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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?
What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?
