The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Each year I plan to carry out a complicated and
massively entertaining April Fool's Day joke. Each year I forget until it is too
late. And each year I rationalise that the world around us is so fundamentally
absurd, that no half arsed joke that I could carry out would hold a candle to
the complete idiocies being carried out in our name daily by those who have been
placed in power over us. And this year I still have the cold I have had for the
last month. No Joke!
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?
