The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Life continues as smoothly as it can do when you
have a highly anarchic five week old kitten rampaging about the house. I thought
that I was an anarchist until I met little Squeaky Biscuit. OK That will
probably not be her proper name when she grows up, but at the moment it is
massively appropriate. Things are still a little awry after the recent computer
crash, but we have managed to restore most of what we were working on from
backed up versions, and have just invested in the new Google Drive for Work
cloud storage thingy (which would never have been feasible before we got fast
broadband) and I sincerely hope that this means that that particular drama shall
never happen again.
Boomtown Rats, Midlake, Beatles, George Harrison,
Apple Scruffs, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon
Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#131) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has The Boomtown Rats on the front cover together with some exciting news about
a hitherto lost video from 1978 inside. There is a look at Midlake by Doug, Jon
examines a book by one of the Apple Scruffs, and discovers the sad story behind
it, and talks about a very peculiar week dogged by Mercury Retrograde, whilst
the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. Xtul gets even more
peculiar, and there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive.
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:
David Crosby, Garry
Johnson,Eric Clapton, Noel Gallagher, Steve Hackett, Genetics, Marillion,
Edison's Children, System 7, Steve Hillage, Karnataka, Friday Night Progressive,
Sam Zaman, Mick Abrahams & Sharon Watson, Tommy James, Hugh Hopper, Third
Ear Band, WMWS, David Peel, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Eliza Carthy & Jim
Moray,The Boomtown Rats, Midlake, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Yes, Steve Howe, Chris
Squire, Wyrd, Martin Eve, Xtul, Elvis, onkees, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Pink
Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne, Keith Richards, FängörN
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?
