The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
Just when you thought that it was safe to go back
in the water.
As many if you will know, I was badly screwed over
by some so-called friends who were tenants of mine in the house that I own in
Exeter. As a result, I was told by those jolly nice people in Exeter City
Council that I was unable to rent it out until I had a lot of work done to it.
Work that I am afraid that I cannot afford. In the interim my tenants moved out
and left the place looking like a pigsty.
So, ever since the end of last July I have had to
leave the property empty, having little bits and bobs of work done as I can
afford to do so. I am now five hundred quid a month worse off, and have been
struggling.
This morning I received a bill for Council Tax for
the property ever since it became empty. Not only do I have to pay out over
eighty quid a month, but I have a bill for arrears of over six hundred quid.
This is truly not fair.
However, it appears that there is nothing that I
can do about it. I am not posting this just in order to bellyache about it all,
but so anyone who finds themselves in the same position as I do can be warned
that the Boys from the County Hall will be screwing you in every way that they
can.
Billy Sherwood, Prog Rock History, Michael Raz,
Free Festival, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon
Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#143) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Billy Sherwood on the front cover together with an interview with him the
day after his first show as bass player of Yes inside. Jon muses about Princess
Diana, Irish extremists and Weird Weekends whilst reviewing the hippest new
comic. Doug reviews a book on the history of Prog Riock, John B-G talks about
his memories of Free Festivals, 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. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and water opossums with something to lose (OK,
nothing to do with small marsupials planning to pray to St Anthony of Padyua for
an intercession, 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:
Zombies, The Faces, Stevie Van Zandt, Darlene Love,
Nile Rodgers, Galahad, Friday Night Progressive, Keith Richards, Don Kent, David
Nobbs, Eddie Cusic, Stephen Lewis, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman,
Billy Sherwood, John Brodie-Good, Roy Weard, Michael Raz, Ted Nugent, Frank
Sinatra, Davey Jones, Carole King, Beatles, Louis and Bebe Barron, Neil Nixon,
Hagbard
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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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
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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, 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?
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What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?
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