The Gonzo Daily - Monday
I am most impressed by the demos of the Jon
Anderson/Jean Luc Ponty band that have been released onto the internet by 921
Associates on Soundcloud. This is going to be one hell of a band. I strongly
suggest that you search them out while you can, because these things have a
habit of only being available for a day or two.
Although it has not been as spectacular as last
year, 2014 has been a good year for British butterflies. On our way up to
Norfolk for the birth of Olivia's baby I realised another minor lifetime
ambition when I saw a brown hairstreak at the Michael Wood services on the M5.
This last few days has seen a number of sightings of Monarch butterflies in
Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. This iconic butterfly is native to North America
but has colonised eastern Australiasia, New Zealand and bits of southern Asia,
as well as the Atlantic islands of Madeira, Azores and the Canary Islands, and
small portions of southern Spain. This is the second lot of records for the UK
this year, with a string of sightings in Kent back in July.
The Blue Underwing (Catocala fraxini), also known
as Clifden Nonpareil is another iconiuc speciues, and one of Britain's rarest
moths. As Dave Brown writes on UK Butterflies: "This year in Kent it has been
the magnificent Clifden Nonpareil, also nicknamed the Blue Underwing, that has
stood out. It is mainly a immigrant species with annually less than 10 records
for the whole of Britain. We ourselves had only seen 3 up to this year, but
remarkably have seen 4 so far in September. We are aware of a minimum of 23
records this September so far spread over East and Mid Kent. Photographs
indicate that most, if not all, are different specimens. This is based on
plumage wear and condition, with a few having nicks out of them."
There is speculation that this gorgeous moth may be
breeding in the UK at last.
Counting Crows, Richard Thompson, Hawkwind, Patrick
Moraz, Elton John and Prince fans and all sorts of other people, had better look
out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#98) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Matt Malley on the cover, and features an
interview with him in which he discusses his work with Counting Crows, Richard
Thompson, Patrick Moraz, Emmitt Rhodes and more. Doug Harr goes to see Elton
John, and Jon asks why so many people are pissed off with U2 and iTunes. The new
albums by Prince, Leonard Cohen and Marianne Faithfull are critiqued and there
are exclusive words and pictures from two separate Hawkwind shows. There are
also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M
Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the massively talented Jaki and Tim are
back with their submarine and Maisie the cow. There is also a collection of more
news, reviews, views, interviews and doves making coos (OK, no musical members
of the Columbinidae, 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!
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want
to write for us, please contact me at
jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and
want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at
gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and
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 infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange
cat?
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