The Gonzo Daily - Monday
I have a long and peculiar week ahead of me, so I
am up and about a little earlier than usual. Thank you to all the people who
said nice things about the Gonzo Weekly Chris Squire tribute edition that went
out on Saturday. It is very gratifying to know that one's efforts are
appreciated. I don't know what happened to our heatwave, but it looks
depressingly Octobery outside.
By the way, I have had various people ask me
whether they can camp in the CFZ grounds for the Weird Weekend this year. I am
afraid not. Mother, who is - after all - 86, finds it all a bit of an upheaval
for her, and so I am not having people camping here that she doesn't know
personally so as not to freak her out too much. I am sorry about
that.
Chris Squire, The Fall, Suzanne Vega, Grant Lee
Buffalo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon
Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#137) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has the late Chris Squire of Yes on the front cover together with a series of
tributes to him inside. There are accounts of Suzanne Vega and Grant Lee Buffalo
live, John muses on The Fall, and Jon examines a book about the a bloke who went
to see the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, and spent fifty years cataloguing
British Butterflies, there is Hawkwind news and an important Gong Family update,
Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his
regular column. And there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night
Progressive, and one from those jolly nice chaps at Strange Fruit, and one from
the wonderful Canterbury. There is also a collection of more news, reviews,
views, interviews and spotted quolls with nothing to lose (OK, nothing to do
with small marsupials in a devil may care mood, 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:
Chris Squire, Morrissey, The Beatles, Culture
Club, Sir Paul McCartney, Barbara Dickson, Nick Holland, Gilli Smyth, Van
Morrison, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury sans Frontieres,
Bruce Rowland, Val Doonican, Third Ear Band, Arthur Brown, Inner City Unit, Hugh
Hopper, Pete Sears, Captain Beefheart, Brand X, Lee Walker, Grant Lee Phillips,
John Brodie-Good, Suzanne Vega, Gerry Leonard, The Fall, John Haylock, Roy
Weard, Hawkwind, Yes, Steve Howe, U2, Morrissey, Michael Jackson, Sid Vicious,
Nick Cave, Neil Nixon, Virginia Astley, Cnoc An Tursa
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, and a small kitten totally coincidentally
named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, 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, and the adventurous kitten?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
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