The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
My first wife used to say that my habit of
deliberately misquoting Bob Dylan lyrics was intensely irritating. It is another
strange day today. Corinna is out shopping, Graham is fixing the museum roof and
I am sitting in the office trying to keep my head below the parapet. The news
from the Middle East gets increasingly more disturbing, as much of the region
descends into complete savagery. Something is happening but you don't know what
it is, do you Mr Downes?
Daevid Allen, UK, Eddie Jobson, John Wetton, Peter
Banks, Sidonie Jordan, Empire, Jon Anderson, Yes, and Hawkwind fans had better
look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#117) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Daevid Allen, we have exclusive words and pictures from last weekend's
Drones 4 Daevid benefit/celebration show in Brighton, and Doug Harr explains
about the final farewell tour from the band UK. 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 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!!!
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
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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
