The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
Yesterday was a very complicated one. I interviewed
Roy Weard, had a phone call from Nick Redfern in Texas, skyped Doug Harr in
California, drank half a bottle of brandy, cooked red beans and rice, tried and
failed to write deathless prose, launched the third volume of the Journal of
Cryptozoology, and slept a lot. Add to that the advent of Mr and Mrs Portman and
their pedigree (and very handsome and well behaved) dogs, and a long telephone
conversation with Dave B-P about Boom Beach and PA systems, and you have my day
in a nutshell. I, by the way, am the nut.
Atkins-May Project, Judas Priest, Judge Smith, Peter Hammill, Van der Graff
Generator, Edgar Allan Poe, 4th Eden, Phil Collins, Genesis, Monika, Hawkwind,
Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#126) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has The Atkins-May Project on the cover, and inside yours truly interviews Paul
May about the new Anthology project. Doug writes about Phil Collins, Jon
eulogises over Monika, and Michael Des Barres' new album, and interviews 4th
Eden, and the director of a new staging of Peter Hammill and Judge Smith's
classic opera 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. Jon critiques a book about
4Chan. 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:
Black Sabbath, The Polyphonic Spree, Bill Wyman,
Abbey Road Studios, Paul McCartney, The Who, Percy Sledge, Ronnie Carroll,
Gunter Grass, John Shuttleworth, Hugh Hopper, Rocket Scientists, Tommy James,
Birmingham Sunday, Inner City Unit, Mick Abrahams, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding,
Florence and the Machine, Brantley Gilbert,Paul May, Al Atkins, Phil Collins,
Colin Watkeys, Peter Hammill, Judge Smith, Hawkwind, Richard Freeman, Steve
Hackett, Toto, Yes, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, 4th Eden, Xtul,
The Beatles, Ozzy, Michael Jackson, Elvis, Kate Bush, Muddy Waters, NSync,
Michael des Barres, Monika, America, Furor Gallico
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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it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
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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?
