Thursday, March 26, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN ON HIS OWN

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
Thursday's child, apparently at least, has far to go. And today is Thursday and I have lots to do. Last night I went out to a meeting about the Centenary book of Woolsery men who fought in WW1; a fascinating and very poignant project. I have also resumed work on 'The Wild Colonial Boy'; the story of my childhood with animals in Hong Kong, which I have been working on, on and off (but mostly off) for years. I am terrible at my authoring work ethic. I have so much more to write each week that work on my own books tends to be shoved to one side, which is why I have only put out one proper book (and a small collection of short stories) in the past decade, whereas I did five or six i the decade before that (depending on how you define 'proper' books). This blasted cold still hasn't completely gone, and it is sometimes two steps forward and one step back, but the general trajectory is one of vague improvement. Corinna seems to have it now, and I am praying hard to the Patron Saint of Mothers in Law that Mum doesn't get it, because it is specifically rather nasty.
The Gonzo Weekly #122
www.gonzoweekly.com
Anthony Phillips, Genesis, Hunkley's Heroes, Nick Lowe, Andy Fairweather-Low, Paul Carrick, Graham Parker, Suggs McPherson, Robert Calvert, Nax Blake Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#122) is another bumper one at 90 pages and is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Anthony Phillips on the cover, and an article and interview with him inside. Roy Weard reports on a very special benefit concert in aid of ailing Wings and Grease Band guitarist Henry McCullough, and we send an insect geneticist to a desert island. Neil Nixon reports on an even stranger album than usual, Wyrd goes avant garde and there are radio shows from Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are still lost at sea, although I have been assured that they will hit land again soon. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons trying to choose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials having difficulty in making choices, 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!!!
This issue features:
Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Spandau Ballet, Ronnie Wood, Kanye West, Cream, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mick Abrahams, Firemerchants, Dee Palmer, Atkins May Project, Wagner, Hawkwind, Karnataka, Paul Buff, Frank Zappa, Charli XCX, Garth Brooks, 5 Seconds of Summer, Ed Sheeran, Albert Maysles, Andy Fraser, Anthony Phillips, Hinkley's Heroes, Roy Weard,Henry McCulloch, Tony O'Mally, Graham Parker, Don Mescall, Suggs McPherson, Nick Lowe, Andy Fairweather-Low,Paul Carrick Hawkwind, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Wally, Geoff Downes, Chris Squire, Neil Nixon, Osbournes, 1D, Beatles, Nirvana, Alarm Will Sound, Golden Resurrection, Indicco, Martolea
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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