The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
The full moon kicked in a little early this month,
and I was hors de combat for most of yesterday. Today, working my way through
the entire canon of work by Daniel Johnston, and trying to put together a Frank
Zappa special for the weekend, seems a little better. Yesterday evening the
Riders came round. Nor the Four Horsemen, but Steve and Andy P. A jolly time was
had by all. Later last night the tortoises (Testudo graeca) were getting
amorous, and it was the first time I have ever seen the mating ritual of this
species as described by Gerald Durrell in 'My Family and Other Animals'. My
jokes about "50 Shades of Graeca" were sadly unappreciated by my wife and mother
in law.
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!
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responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
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* 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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Syd Henley phoned me late last night
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?
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