The Gonzo Daily - Monday
Prudence has been ill all weekend, and has been
vomiting up everything she ate or drank. However, she hasn't been sick since
yesterday afternoon (touch wood) and has finally got her appetite back, so
things are looking up for her. Beth came along on Saturday with a pigeon that
can't fly (no, boys and girls, not a dodo) which we hoped would be a companion
for Martha who has become completely fixated on Corinna, and doesn't seem to
realise that she is actually a bird. However, when we put the new pigeon into
the cage, it turned out to be a male with the sexual proclivities of certain
1970s pop personalities (Martha not really being fledged yet, and being very
much a juvenile) and we took him out immediately. The pigeon, now named
'Glitter', (because of his sparkling feathers, of course) has now been put into
the main aviary. In other news we have a Japanese film crew due at 1:00 to ask
me a series of questions about the yeti, and this week's issue of Gonzo Weekly
is the most popular yet. Good-oh, eh chaps?
Ant-Bee, Jethro Tull, Dee Palmer, Lemmy, Frank
Zappa, Astronomusic, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had
better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#107) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Ant-Bee Billy James on the cover, and
features an interview with him by Yours truly. Doug Harr interviews the
legendary Dee Palmer, once of Jethro Tull and we send Astronomusic to a desert
island. Jon looks at Lemmy's autobiographt, Hawkwind go to Japan, and we
remember the great Frank Zappa. And there are also new shows from the
multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night
Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are back with another episode of
Sub Reality Sandwich (except its not). There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and anteaters wishing to snooze (OK, nothing to do
with dozy edentates, 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!!!
The complete list of artists featured in this
bumper fun packed issue is: Frank Zappa, Mike Joyce, Pink Floyd,Elton John,
AC/DC, Gong, Daevid Allen, Quarto Vuoto, The Who, Steve Hackett, Strange Fruit,
Sub Reality Sandwich, Friday Night Progressive, Ian McLagan, Bobby Keys, Nick
Talbot, Bob Montgomery, Stoner, The Doctors of Madness, Clive Palmer, The Fall,
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Mick Farren and The Deviants, Aviator,
Mick Abrahams, Joey Molland, Steve Ignorant, Hugh Hopper & Phil Miller,
Tony Palmer, Barbara Dickson,Ant-Bee, Jethro Tull, Dee Palmer, Astronomusic,
Lemmy, Yes, Peter Banks, Rick Wakeman, Geoff Downes, Mabel Greer's Toyshop,
Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, Patrick Moraz, Like a Storm, Tinkicker, Winter,
Ancient Rites
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
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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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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?
