And so another day begins. Tamara has just arrived
and she has a long day of aviary cleaning and tortoise weighing ahead of her. I
finally got my new glasses yesterday from the Tesco opticians in Barnstaple, and
- as we were in Tesco - Corinna and I did some shopping. As Corinna was in the
queue at the checkout I went over to the waiting area, tripped and fell. My
mobility is so crappy these days that I am afraid the day will shortly be here
when I have to have a wheelchair in public. Sad but true.
I really liked much of the first album by the Ting
Tings about five years ago, although the follow-up was disappointing. The third
album was released yesterday, and I so pent last night listening to it on
Spotify whilst I attempted to write deathless prose. God it is awful! I hate to
say so, but I can find no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. The inventive
spark that made the first album so engaging has been replaced by layers of
anodyne Protools funk. The witty and sassy lyrics of the first album are now
replaced by such dull platitudes that, writing this the next morning, I can't
remember any of them. The album apparently took months to make in Ibitha.
Martin, Marianne and I could have done the same thing in a weekend at my place.
No wonder the music business is disappearing up its own arse!
Tommy James, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, Scott
Walker, Queen, Merrell Fankhauser and Daevid Allen fans had better look out! The
latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#101) is now available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Tommy James on the cover, and features an
interview with him about his life, work, political campaigning back in the 1960s
and what it was like having a manager with more than a few links to the Mafia.
But there's more! There is a message from Daevid Allen, and Merrell Fankhauser
responds to some strange signals off the Malibu coast. ET? One never knows. Doug
Harr critiques the new Queen DVD, we send Thom the World Poet to a Desert
Island, and Jon discusses the new Scott Walker/Sunn o))) collaboration and much
to his surprise finds that it is Scott's best work for decades. Carl Portman is
our guest book reviewer, and he takes a look at the new Ozzy Osbourne biography.
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 turtles having a snooze (OK, no
soporific chelonians, 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 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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
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