The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
Tamara was here yesterday. She really is a
delightful young lady and worked very hard. Today we have the advent of another
new toiler in the CFZ Vineyard - Danny, a young man of 17 who will be taking
over the gardening from Mark Raines, who - although he continues as cartoonist
and blogger - has now moved to Northam. Today also sees the return of Jessica
Taylor who has been a fixture in this office anytime since she was seven, a
decade ago. It is all getting very complex. Martha the baby pigeon is now an
immensely greedy little thing and flaps her wings and makes peculiar wheezing
noises every time anyone comes in the kitchen. Archie is getting very protective
of her and growls and barks anytime another dog or a cat goes near her. He is a
funny little fellow and either gets jealous of, or possessive of each new
creature that arrives.
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) IS 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Tony Palmer, and another from Rob Ayling together with an unpublished photoshoot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 There is news and unpublished pictures from Keith Levene in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?
What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?
