The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
Thursday's child, apparently at least, has far to
go. And today is Thursday and I have lots to do. Last night I went out to a
meeting about the Centenary book of Woolsery men who fought in WW1; a
fascinating and very poignant project. I have also resumed work on 'The Wild
Colonial Boy'; the story of my childhood with animals in Hong Kong, which I have
been working on, on and off (but mostly off) for years. I am terrible at my
authoring work ethic. I have so much more to write each week that work on my own
books tends to be shoved to one side, which is why I have only put out one
proper book (and a small collection of short stories) in the past decade,
whereas I did five or six i the decade before that (depending on how you define
'proper' books). This blasted cold still hasn't completely gone, and it is
sometimes two steps forward and one step back, but the general trajectory is one
of vague improvement. Corinna seems to have it now, and I am praying hard to the
Patron Saint of Mothers in Law that Mum doesn't get it, because it is
specifically rather nasty.
Anthony Phillips, Genesis, Hunkley's Heroes, Nick
Lowe, Andy Fairweather-Low, Paul Carrick, Graham Parker, Suggs McPherson, Robert
Calvert, Nax Blake Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#122) is another
bumper one at 90 pages and is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Anthony Phillips on the cover, and an article and interview with him inside.
Roy Weard reports on a very special benefit concert in aid of ailing Wings and
Grease Band guitarist Henry McCullough, and we send an insect geneticist 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:
Rolling Stones, Marvin
Gaye, Spandau Ballet, Ronnie Wood, Kanye West, Cream, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, 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, Albert Maysles, Andy Fraser, Anthony Phillips,
Hinkley's Heroes, Roy Weard,Henry McCulloch, Tony O'Mally, Graham Parker, Don
Mescall, Suggs McPherson, Nick Lowe, Andy Fairweather-Low,Paul Carrick Hawkwind,
Yes, Rick Wakeman, Wally, Geoff Downes, Chris Squire, Neil Nixon, Osbournes, 1D,
Beatles, Nirvana, Alarm Will Sound, Golden Resurrection, Indicco, Martolea
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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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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?
