Wednesday, January 07, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HAS A NIECE WHO CLEANS OUT HIS OFFICE

The Gonzo Daily - 7th January
 
Wher does the time go? The year is already a week old. However, at the moment ennui has not set in and I am massively enthusiastic about everything that I am doing. I know it won't last, but I still have that freshly minted beginning of term feeling.
 
About twenty five years ago I went to Southampton to interview a band called Pop Will Eat Itself, who were (and are) one of my perennial favourites. I interviewed lead singer Clint Mansell, and then sat back to watch a massively enjoyable gig, during which a half naked Mansell, writhed, rapped and chanted a wonderful collection of often scabrous but always witty pop songs about sex, drugs, rock and roll, and ummmmmmmm more sex, drugs and rock and roll. At the soundcheck, however, they played the old cowboy song 'Streets of Laredo' at the soundcheck which gave some sort of hint that their musical horizons were wider than grebo and hiphop. Dast forward to this morning. I am listening to Clint Mansells's soundtrack for the Cecil B de Mille-esque Biblical epic 'Noah'. It is suitably epic, but try as I may I cannot hear any of the voice of the man who sand 'Beaver Patrol' ("The only way I get my kicks, is go downtown and hustle chicks") inside the enormous Hollywood strings. It is a pity really.
 
People made a fuss about one of the Sex Pistols advertising butter, and one of the Rolling Stones getting a knighthood. But one of the Poppies scoring a Biblical epic? The world truly has gone bonkers.
 
 
The Gonzo Weekly #111
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
Mice on Stilts, Kate Bush, Three Friends, PFM, Yusuf, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder, King Crimson, Elbow, The National, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#111) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Mice on Stilts on the front cover, and an interview with the band, Doug's totally subjective top ten gigs of last year, we send Lee Pomeroy, prog bass player to the stars to a desert island, and there are shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are lost at sea, whilst Xtul are still causing havoc in the forest. 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!!!
 
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!
 
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
 

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* 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?
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