The Gonzo Daily - Monday
Six weeks without cigarettes or brandy, I learned
last night that another old drinking friend of mine is on the wagon. It is
strange how we are all cleaning up our acts at once. This morning I received a
picture of a stunning variation of the lime hawkmoth found near an RAF station
in Suffolk.
In other news, I did a brief gig on Friday and
enjoyed myself mightily. Tammy rescued a nearly fledged jackdaw from Captain
Frunomulax the orange cat on Friday, but it died on Saturday. And is there any
concrete news of my hard drive beyond vague mumblings from those responsible for
its welfare? Is there heck!
John Shuttleworth, Ambrosia, David Pack, Bob
Harris, Graham Fellows, Glastonbury Festival, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That
Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#134) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has John Shuttleworth on the front cover together with an exclusive interview
with him during which we also meet his manager and some bloke called Graham.
There is an exclusive interview with David Pack of Ambrosia, Jon examines a book
by Bob Harris, and goes through this year's Glastonbury Festival lineup, Thom
waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular
column. Xtul reveals a bit of the backstory, and there is a radio show from M
Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and one from theose jolly nice chaps at
Strange Fruit. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and pademelons looking for booze (OK, nothing to do with small
marsupials having difficulty in the offie, 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:
Glastonbury Festival Line-up, David Grohl, Phil
Rudd, Fleetwood Mac, Galahad, Merrell Fankhauser, Barbara Dickson, Pink Fairies,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury sans Frontieres, Randolph
Coleman, Sir Christopher Lee, Vincent Bugliosi Jr., Nick Marsh, Paul Bacon,
James
Last, Ron Moody, Jorge Galemire, Ruth Gilbert, Randy Howard, Merrell
Fankhauser,Hugh Hopper, Tommy James, Inner City Unit, Mick Abrahams and Guests,
Pete Sears, Barbara Dickson, John Shuttleworth, Graham Fellows, David Pack,
Ambrosia, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Moonloonies, Andrew Phillipson, Yes,Chris Squire,
Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Wyrd, Stargrace, Dogleg, Bob Harris, Neil Nixon, The
Aphex Twin, Michael Jackson, Cher, Country Joe & the Fish,Genesis, George
Harrison, The Beatles, Willie Nelson, Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead,
Slartibartfass
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
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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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all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
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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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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?
