Tuesday, January 27, 2015

THGE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS IN A SOMEWHAT BULLISH MOOD FOR A CHANGE, AND IT DOES MAKE A NICE CHANGE

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
 
Things are going reasonably well this year so far. As regular readers will know we launched our first online edition of Animals & Men last week. The new membership package is being put together as we speak, and the first of the membership newsletters will be going out on the first of February. All current members of the CFZ will be migrated over to the new package with 12 Months FREE membership. We have the email addresses for about 75% of members, but if you haven't received anything by mid February and you feel that you SHOULD have received something from us please email corinna@cfz.org.uk.
 
The next bit of good news is that Volume Two of George Eberhart's Mysterious Creatures is only a few days away from publication, and that three exciting new Gonzo books - Frank Zappa et al: The Real Porn Wars, Neil Nixon: 500 Albums you won't believe until you hear them and the 2015 Gonzo Annual are now available.
 
I would just like to take this opportunity to thank my wife Corinna, Doug Harr, Dr Andrew May, Martin Eve, Marianne Holland and Ronan Coghlan for all that they are doing. They are my Praetorian Guard and are helping me forge ahead into brave new pastures.
 
Oh yes, and a very happy Australia Day to all our Antipodean chums.
 
 

The Gonzo Weekly #114
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
Barbara Dickson, Pink Fairies, Genesis, Steve Hackett, Robert Wyatt, Stargrace, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#114) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Barbara Dickson on the front cover and inside there is an interview by me in which she talks about her new album and her work with Troy Donockley, Doug goes back to 1976 and the Genesis 'Seconds Out' Tour, I critique the extraordinary new Robert Wyatt biography, and also burble on about Bob Dylan, we send the lovely Stargrace to a desert island, tell you about new Pink Fairies recordings, marvel at the intrepidness of Steve Hackett, and Xtul are on the road to Norwich, 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 still lost at sea. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers wearing new shoes (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials in search of snazzy footwear, 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/
 

* 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/…/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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