The Gonzo Daily - Saturday
My lovely wife Corinna and I are both as mad as
hatters, but there are times that I think we are two of the sanest people we
know. Now, THAT is frightening. It is once again stupid o'clock in the morning,
and we are putting the final touches on the magazine because I have a sneaking
suspicion tomorrow will be full of more drama.
The captain is a one-armed dwarf,
He's throwing
dice along the wharf
In the land of the blind
The one-eyed man is king, so
take this ring
Jack Bruce, Corky Laing, Mountain, Tony Palmer,
Steve Hillage, Erasure, Keith Levene, Jon Anderson, Yes, Nick Redfern, Cat
Stevens, Steve Ignorant, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#103) will soon be available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Jack Bruce on the cover, and features an
interview with Corky Laing about his erstwhile bandmate inside. We also have a
tribute to Jack Bruce from Tony Palmer, and another from Rob Ayling together
with an unpublished photoshoot of Bruce and Pete Brown. But there's more! There
is news about Daevid Allen, Doug Harr goes to see Erasure, Jon waxes lyrical
about Steve Ignorant's new album, and critiques Yusuf Islam's and comes to the
conclusion that Cat Stephens is a very brave man. Xtul are still in the deep
woods, and Corinna finds some real Beatles tat. There is news and unpublished
pictures from Keith Levene in Prague, and we send Steve Hillahe to a desert
island. 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?
