The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
Yesterday evening Martin and Marianne appeared on
the local radio station, The Voice, to talk about tomorrow night's Reflektions
concert. Dutifully I sat and listened, and recorded it, but I thought they were
only on for an hour and so I stopped listening at 8:00, mildly piqued that they
had not mentioned my involvement in the project. Apparently their segment went
on for another ten minutes, during which they did nothing ut say nice things
about me, but by that time I was sitting in the sitting room playing Boom Beach
on my iPad (damn you David B-P, this is the biggest time waster I have had in
years). The section I recorded will be on the Wyrd blog later today. Thank you
chaps for your kindness even if I didn't actually hear it. Hopefully someone
else will have a recording.
Mick Abrahams, Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig, Magma,
Robin Trower, G.G.Allin and the Murder Junkies, Brian Wilson, Mark Ellen,
Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#125) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Mike Abrahams on the cover, and inside yours truly interviews the man
himself about his extraordinary new album. Doug writes about Magma, Davey Curtis
goes to see Robin Trower, and Jon critiques the new Brian Wilson album and the
delightful autobiography of Mark Ellen. 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:
Frances Bean Cobain, B.B. King,Mick Jagger, Barry
Manilow, Shaun Ryder, Bertrand Pourcheron, Joni Mitchell, Karnataka, Strange
Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Bob Burns, James Best, John Shuttleworth, Hugh
Hopper, Rocket Scientists, Tommy James, Birmingham Sunday, Inner City Unit, Mick
Abrahams, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding, Florence and the Machine, Brantley
Gilbert,Mick Abrahams, Magma, Robin Trower, Hawkwind, Yes, Bill Bruford, Steve
Howe, Rick Wakeman, Toto, 4th Eden, Mark Ellen, Xtul, Beatles, Elvis, Michael
Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Neil Nixon, G G Allin and the Murder
Junkies, Vanir
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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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
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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
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* 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?