The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
Seventeen years ago, Graham and I made a film in
Mexico, and we both fell in love with the place. We have warm memories of the
places and the people (except for one bunch of bent policemen who tried to shake
us down for ten grand in permits). Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is
a celebration held on May 5. It is celebrated in the United States and in
Mexico, primarily in the state of Puebla,where the holiday is called El Día de
la Batalla de Puebla (English: The Day of the Battle of Puebla). Mexican
Americans also often see the day as a source of pride; one way they can honor
their ethnicity is to celebrate this day.The date is observed to commemorate the
Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on
May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.
Así que en nombre de mis amigos y colegas
mexicanos, que todos tengan un feliz cinco de mayo.
Kingsmen, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Camel, Gong, Daevid
Allen, The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, Gretchen Peters, Roy Weard,
Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Ibeyi, Ringo Starr, Malachite, Hawkwind,
Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#128) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has the greatest rock song of all time on the cover, a potted history of the
Louie Louie story inside, together with a backstage look at the recent Drones
for Daevid concert by Tracy from the Invisible Opera Company, the story of Camel
and The Snow Goose by Doug Harr, new columnist Lee Walker on Gretchen Peters,
Jon critiquing Ibeyi and Ringo Starr, as well as the new Lou Reed biography, the
legendary Roy Weard starts a regular column.We send the lovely Babz from
Malachite to a desert island, Neil Nixon reports on an even stranger album than
usual, Wyrd gets down with the kids, 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:
Jack Ely, Johnny Cash,
Paul McCartney, The Grateful Dead, Ringo Starr, Noel Gallagher, Black Sabbath,
Marillion, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Keith Harris, Guy LeBlanc,
Marty Napoleon,B.E.King, Mick Abrahams & Sharon Watson, Tommy James, Hugh
Hopper, Third Ear Band, WMWS, David Peel, Strawberry Alarm CLock, Eliza Carthy
& Jim Moray, Tracy Austin, Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, Camel, Lee
Walker, Gretchen Peters, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Malachite, Yes, Steve Howe, Rick
Wakeman, Chris Squire, Steve Hackett, Billy Sherwood, Wyrd, Stargrace, Jaz
Rogers, Peter Banks, Stephen Hawking, Zayn Malik, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix,
David Bowie, Elvis, Yes, Lou Reed, Xtul, Ringo Starr, Ibeyi, Laurie Anderson,
Nine Treasures
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?
