The Gonzo Daily - Monday
It is very odd without Graham here. He is off for a
week visiting his family, and seeing Hawkwind. It is very strange without him.
We have good news and bad bird-related news today. The bad news is that Orcrist
the crow who has lived in the bottom aviary ever since he was rescued from a dog
two years ago died suddenly on friday night. Poor thing survived the winter only
to die out of the blue when the spring came. Bizarrely Jerry the Jackdaw did
exactly the same thing a few years ago. The good news is that the rescued
pigeons in the top aviary have bred and there is at least one jolly looking
squab demanding food. The Universe giveth and the Universe taketh
away.
Eliza Carthy, Arthur Brown, Simon Phillips, Daevid
Allen, Gilli Smyth, Jon Anderson, Hawkwind and Yes fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#119) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Eliza Carthy on the front cover with an interview with her inside. Doug Harr
reports on legendary drummer Simon Phillips, and we send Liz Lenten to a Desert
Island. Neil Nixon reports on singing drug addicts, Wyrd goes acoustic and Xtul
gets freakier than ever. Jon does some reporting from the field, 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: Wilko Johnson, Noel Gallagher,
Paloma Faith, Bjork, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Arthur Brown, Daevid Allen,
Gilli Smyth, Bob Marley, Karnataka, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night
Progressive,Leonard Nimoy, Warsaw Pakt, Hugh Hopper, Orlando Monday
Allen, Dee Palmer, Badfinger, Ant-Bee, Billy Cobham, Tony Palmer, Homeostasis,
Nolan Porter, Galahad, Mick Abrahams Band, Eliza Carthy, Jim Moray, Protocol,
Liz Lenten, Hawkwind, Yes, Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye, Alan White, Joey
Molland, Robben Ford, George Harrison, Xtul, Elvis, Justin Bieber, Marillion,
Metallica,
Beatles, Spurious Transients, The Relationships, Rocket
Scientists, The Brits, Chasing Violets, Pest, Eliwagar
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
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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?
I have been terribly remiss in ignoring the CFZ Publishing Hit Parade for the past three months. Whilst February's results haven't yet been calculated here are December and January. The monthly bestseller lists are moving over to the new blog on the CFZ Publishing website, together with other book-related news.. One thing of interest is that January 2015 saw the first month that ebooks were included in the rankings. 
