The Gonzo Daily - Monday
And so the countdown to the Weird Weekend begins.
The Curtis clan arrived on Saturday afternoon, Davey clutching cans of broon.
Joolz the ghost hunter arrived later that evening, and there have been all sorts
of shenanigans involving marquees, none of which I shall go into here. Mark and
Graham are bustling around like busy little beavers, and Helen has just arrived
with the news that she has adopted yet another rescued dog. Life goes
on.
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#90) is available
to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has the legendary
Steve Bolton on the cover and an interview with him inside, in which he casually
drops more names than I have ever heard in an interview before, including Keith
Richards and Dr John, as well as his first band Atomic Rooster and the currently
reformed 6foot3. We also have Tony Palmer remembering his friend Felix Dennis
and a feature about the reissued edition of Palmer's 'The Trials of Oz'. Gentle
Giant fans will find a critique of the new box set of 'The Power and the Glory',
critiqued by Doug Harr. There are also new shows from the wonderfully eccentric
Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at
Strange Fruit and from M Destiny (hopefully fully recovered from his recent
illness) a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and long nosed
potoroos (OK, no weird little 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!!!
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
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?
