The Gonzo Daily - Monday
And so another week begins. Last week Costa Rica
became the first country in Latin America to ban hunting for sport. Costa Rica’s
Congress voted unanimously to approve the ban, which will protect the country’s
wildlife – including several species of native big cats. Any hunters caught
breaking the new law will face jail time or hefty fines. If they can do it why
can't we?
Shoshy goes home tomorrow, and she and Corinna are
having a nice day out today. In the meantime a European race swallowtail has
been seen in Sussex and my office wifi is still not working. With less than a
fortnight to go until the sixteenth Weird Weekend I am beginning to get as
nervous as I do every year. However, Corrina's second novel is now out, and my
second novel is imminent.
Watch this space.
Rick Wakeman, Yes, Camel, Spirit, Shack, Soft
Machine, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden
Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#141) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Rick Wakeman on the front cover together with an interview with him inside.
Doug goes to the Ramblin' Man festival, he also remembers a very special gig
featuring Rick Wakeman and his family, John B-G talks about Spirit, and Jon and
Doug and Graham take mother down the pub. Lee remembers a band called Shack. The
story of Xtul comes to an end for now at least. 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 our monthly visit to Canterbury Sans Frontières
featuring an insanely rare slice of Soft Machine. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons with books to peruse (OK,
nothing to do with small marsupials in a literary 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:
Morrissey, Damon Albarn, Janis Ian, Keith Richards,
Nile, Chic, Marillion, Badfinger, Steve Ignorant, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Buddie Emmons, Bobbi Kristina Brown,
Norbert Schwefel, Eddie Hardin, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman,
Camel, The Scorpions, Blue Oyster Cult, Lee Walker, Shack, John Brodie-Good,
Spirit, Roy Weard, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Alan White, Steve Hackett, Steve
Howe, Xtul, Neil Nixon, Moe Barbari, Ozy Osbourne, The Beatles, Tony Bennett,
Jerry Garcia, Stormtide
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dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power
chaps, we have to share it!
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* 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?
