The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
Things always go more slowly than I would have
liked, but I am happy to announce that the hard copy and ebook versions of
Animals & Men #52 are currently in preparation. Just to reiterate the
changes which have recently taken place with the CFZ Flagship Publication.
Animals & Men is no longer available by
subscription. The membership package will now consist of a monthly newsletter,
regular publications for members only and a series of discounts on CFZ
publications and tickets to the Weird Weekend. All current subscriptions will be
migrated to the new format, and a credit note issued for any outstanding monies
held by us. That credit note can be redeemed against any of our publications
including Animals & Men, so although we are changing the model, subscribers
can still stick to what is basically the current plan if they wish. The first
newsletter will be going out very soon and from then on will be on the first of
each month. Because this is a radical rewrite of the membership structure, all
members will be given a free 3 Month subscription on top of what is currently
owed to them. For those not aware, the new look Animals & Men can be found
for free on the front page of the website.
However, both hard copy and ebook versions have
been uploaded and will be available to purchase in the next week or so. Thank
you for your forebearance while the CFZ (and partiocularly this grumpy old
bugger) embraces the new cultural mores of the 21st Century.
It really does feel like spring today: the sun is
shining, the birds are singing, and I will hopefully have a full complement of
students here doing their various tasks. Graham is still away, so I shjall be
gang boss today, but luckily all three are nice kids who are helpful, hard
working and do as they are told. Thirty years ago, when I was trying to be the
Brian Epstein of South Devon, I picked up a hitchhiker called Mike Davis
travelling through Starcross. In all my years in the business he is still the
most talented singer/songwriter that I have ever met! We have remained friends,
and still make music together. And today is his birthday. Love on ya
Mike.
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
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?
As I have intimated recently, Martin Eve and I are at the heart of a new venture - Wyrd Music. This is an extension of what I have been doing with music and theatre over the past ten years and is intended as a sister project to the CFZ Publishing Group. Working on vaguely Fortean and Anarchist, and strictly anti-capitalist lines, in the same way as CFZ Press, Fortean Words and the others put out books strictly because we want to read them, and because we think they should be out there whether they make a profit or not, Wyrd Music aims to do the same for music. Although it doesn't officially launch until April Fool's Day, a Blog, a website, a Facebook page, and some free music will be up in the webiverse in the next few days and will always be plugged shamelessly on the CFZ and Gonzo blogs. Why? Because I can.
It's Mike's birthday today (tuesday). So not only do we have him looking mildly sinister in my study and wearing a birthday present from his delightful sister Karen, but we have a new song for you all.
