The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
One of the first things that I did when I first got
Internet access back in 1997 was to sign up to the free service provided by the
British National Formulary (BNF). As both a qualified nurse, and someone who has
been prescribed a lot of various medication over the past 20 years, I like to
keep abreast of what is being put into my, and my friends and family's, bodies
in the name of healing. A few days ago I discovered that the service is
changing, and instead of getting it for free I am now expected to pay nearly
£300 for annual access to the BNF and BNF (Children). What did I do? I ranted
about capitalist pigs for twenty minutes and then went onto eBay and bought a
paperback copy of the current edition for a tenner. That tell'd
'em!
And wonders will never cease. Scott Walker has made
an album with tunes, and without pointless silly noises. The collaboration with
Sunn o))) is the first listenable album he has made in twenty years, and whilst
firmly in avant garde territory is possibly his best record since Nite Flights
in 1980. Max Blake writes: "I found myself nodding my head with the rhythm at
one point. I felt disgusted with myself, and listened to the second movement of
'And who shall go to the ball? ...'"
It has Jon Anderson on the cover, and features an
interview with Matt Malley about his collaboration with Jon Anderson on a
charity single released today. But there's more! Doug Harr rewrites the
screenplay for the controversial new Genesis documentary, we send the editor to
a Desert Island, Davey Curtis was at Hawkeaster and was just about sober enough
to write some of it down (but took loads of pics), and Jon asks whether music
has to be age appropriate. We also learn about Tommy James and the Mafia. 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!!! And yes, Happy Birthday to us!
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 55 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?
