The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
Yesterday was a strange one even by my standards. I
went to a routine chiropody appointment at Bideford and District Hospital, where
I used to live over a third of a century ago when I was a young Nursing
Assistant. Everything went normally until they found a big dark mark on the sole
of my left foot and discovered that I had an abscess that was ulcerating quite
nastily. If they had not caught it and treated it in time then things could have
got very unpleasant and I might even have had my foot amputated! Just the news
one needs on a Thursday afternoon.
Galahad, Genesis, Paradise 9, Grateful Dead,
Glasto, Lotus Eaters, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind,
Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#138) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Galahad on the front cover together with an interview with Stu Nicholson
inside. Doug looks at the new Genesis iPad app, John B-G watches the final
Grateful Dead show, while John H watches Glasto. There is an interview with
Gregg from Paradise 9 and Jon examines a book about Anonymous. Xtul are very
near to a climax. 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. 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:
Sir Paul McCartney, Brian May, Keith Richards, Madonna, Richard Hawley,
Rolling Stones, Barbara Dickson, Val Doonican, The Beatles, Galahad, Mirror
System, Steve Hillage, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Omar Sharif,
Michael Masser, Camille Bob, Third Ear Band, Arthur Brown, Inner City Unit, Hugh
Hopper, Pete Sears, Captain Beefheart, Brand X, Genesis, Armando Gallo, Paradise
9, Lee Walker, The Lotus Eaters, John Brodie-Good, The Grateful Dead, John
Haylock, Glastonbury Festival 2015, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Yes, Rick Wakeman,
Trevor Rabin, Elton John, Chris Squire, Anonymous, Xtul, Elvis Presley, Corey
Taylor, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Alice Cooper, Neil Nixon,
Awesome Colour, TrollfesT
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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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?
