The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
Last night Richard and Mother and I watched The
Grand Budapest Hotel, which truly is a brilliant film. It shows how out of touch
I am with everything except rarified types of progressive rock music and
cryptozoology that I had not heard of it. Richard apparently saw it at the
cinema and earmarked it as a movie that I was bound to like. And he was right.
Today the away team are dropping Richard off at Gunnislake so he can catch the
train back to Exeter. Then Graham and Danny are helping a damsel in distress to
move house. While Jessica and I take a metaphorical hatchet to the office. Fun
eh chaps?
Peter Banks, Sidonie Jordan, Empire, Ty Segall,
Robert Wyatt, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#116) will soon
be available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has the lovely Sidonie Jordan, one half of Empire together with the late Peter
Banks on the cover and a fascinating interview with her inside. We also have an
interview with the author of the new Robert Wyatt biography, and we confirm,
that sadly Robert has stopped making music. We introduce you to the new co host
of Strange Fruit, and Doug Harr explains why you all should check out the multi
talented Ty Segall, whilst Jon waxes lyrical about the Prog Rock FAQ. We send
Jeremy Smith to a desert island. Xtul are on the road to Norwich, and there are
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 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!
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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?
A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 
