The Gonzo Daily - Monday
On Saturday night I was sitting watching TV with
Mother and Squeaky the kitten. We heard an enormous crash as something thrust
our wrought iron front gate open and it ricocheted shut again. Corinna looked
outside but could see nothing although the intruder security light was on. The
next morning Graham found that something had broken the gate between the garden
and the area where the aviary, chicken run and museum are. There is a big bulge
in the wire of the gate, although there is no apparent damage to the aviary and
the occupants were unhurt.
Whether the intruder was human or animal (Corinna
thinks human, I think badger, it is somewhat disturbing.
Daevid Allen, Gong, Blancmange, Grateful Dead, Roy
Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes
fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#132) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Daevid Allen on the front cover together with a thirteen page account,
written by the man himself, of one of his last excursions outside Australia. He
sent it to us for the blog three years ago, and when I had posted it I promptly
forgot all about it....until now. There is a look at Blancmange live with some
excellent pictures by Doug, Jon examines a book about The Grateful Dead, and
muses on an exciting new direction in music retail, Thom waxes all poetical
like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. Xtul shudders
towards a climax, and there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night
Progressive, and two from theose jolly nice chaps at Strange Fruit. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses
trying to snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials having difficulty
getting to sleep, 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!
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write for us, please contact me at
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want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at
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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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?
