The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
In Wordsworth's ode on his Intimations of Mortality
from Recollections of Early Childhood he wrote: "Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come". I don't
know whether I have ever trailed clouds of glory, but for the last few days I
have been trailing clouds of phlegm as I stagger around the house coughing like
a sick and elderly ram overdue for the knacker's yard. Add to that two badly
behaved dogs, who may both have been neutered but I suspect are picking up on
the hormones of spring which are in the air, and an overly amorous male tortoise
who insists on trying to copulate whilst his inamorata is busily eating
aubergine, and you may have a vague idea what springtime at Myrtle Cottage is
like.
Yesterday evening I interviewed Ian Jones of
Karnataka for the first time. What a ice chap he is. I also spent much of
yesterday listening to their latest album and like it very much, as do my
long-suffering Mama in Law, and Martin Eve of 4th-Eden.
Cream, Kansas, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Viv Albertine, The
Slits, Daevid Allen, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#123) is another bumper one at 92 pages
and is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Cream on the cover, and inside yours truly pontificates on the band's
legacy while Tony Palmer remembers filming their farewell show back in 1968.
Doug writes about proggers Kansas, and Jon critiques the new autobiography by
Viv Albertine ofThe Slits. We look at just a few of the many tributes to Daevid
Allen, and send the Gonzo Customer Service guy to a Desert Island. Neil Nixon
reports on an even stranger album than usual, Wyrd goes avant garde, Xtul gets
even more peculiar, 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:
Cream, Ringo Starr, SXSW, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Blur, Daevid Allen,
James Murphy, Galahad, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, John Renbourn,
Anthony Pero, Michael Porcaro, Bruce Crump, Jackie Trent, 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, Tony Palmer, Kansas, Steve Lavelle, HaWkwind, Yes, Viv Albertine,
Xtul, Fairport Convention, Belle and Sebastian,Neil Nixon, Alberto y Lost Trios
Paranoias, Beatles,Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, 1D, Elvis, Micky Dolenz, Tom
Jones, Golden Resurrection, Indicco, Myrath
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?
When my family first returned to North Devon in 1971 after an absence of nearly two decades, during which my parents fought gallant rearguard actions against the fall of the British Empire in Nigeria and Hong Kong, they quickly made friends with various members of the local gentry. In those days there was a remarkable range of minor aristocracy and interesting, though often impoverished, gentlefolk who lived in the area. Woolsery Manor, for example, which in later years was a hotel, then fell into disuse, and now as a derelict building has been bought by the bloke who started Bebo, was inhabited by the Count de St Quentin and his wife, a Swedish princess. They were very kind to me during my first year or two in the village, and encouraged me in my pursuits as an amateur naturalist, and wannabe poet.
