The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
I have been trying to keep a cold at bay all year
using all the weapons in my arsenal (brandy and/or lemsip) but it is finally
here with a vengeance, and I am as deaf as a post and coughing like a sick
sheep. Being a man, of course, I am making more fuss about it than Mother (who
is nearly over hers, I think) and Corinna (who is being irritatingly stoic). So
I would be grateful if people didn't expect much from me today....
Annie Haslam, Renaissance, Gryphon, Daevid Allen,
Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#121) is another
bumper one at 96 pages and IS available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Annie Haslam on the cover, and an exclusive interview with her inside, as
well as the Renaissance European Tour Dates. Doug Harr interviews Gryphon, but
of course the whole magazine was disrupted totally by the untimely death of
Daevid Allen on Friday. There are tributes and his last messages inside. We send
cartoonist Mark Raines to a Desert Island. Neil Nixon reports on an even
stranger album than usual, Wyrd goes avant garde 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:
Sandy Denny, John Lennon,
Bjork, Muse, Noel Gallagher, Ringo Starr, Steve Strange, Daevid Allen, Strange
Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Terry Pratchett, Jimmy Greenspoon, Sam Simon,
Lewis Michael Soloff, Tommy James, Mick Abrahams, Firemerchants, Dee Palmer,
Atkins May Project, Wagner, Hawkwind, Karnataka, Paul Buff, Frank Zappa, Charli
XCX, Garth Brooks, 5 Seconds of Summer, Ed Sheeran, Annie Haslam, Gryphon,
Hawkwind, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Chris Squire, Peter Banks, Trevor Rabin, Bill
Bruford,Kanye West, Take That, Beatles, Blues Brothers, 1D,Neil Nixon, Eden
Ahbez,Death Dealer, Ecnephias, Edge, Giuntini Project, Aktarum
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?
