The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
i was actually doing quite well this week until I received a letter from
Exeter City Council this morning. In July last year I was informed that I would
have to do a lot of expensive work on my house in Exeter before I would be able
to let it to tenants. The fact that a lot of the damage that had been done had
been done by the tenants that I had there at the time was irrelevant, and so I
was forced to evict them. As I could not afford to do the repairs, I let the
house stand empty until I could raise the funds.
A couple of months back I was told by Exeter City Council that I was liable
to pay Council Tax on the empty property, and I have now been informed that I
have to pay 150% tax as of next year. This is, to my mind, completely bloody
outrageous, and I intend to be as obstructive and difficult over the affair as I
possibly can be. However, as the old saying goes, you can't fight City Hall, and
I don't fancy my chances that much.
COMING TOMORROW
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #148
www.gonzoweekly.com
Wally Hope, Kansas, King Crimson, Mike Oldfield, Tony Palmer, Pink
Military, Al Stewart, Beatles, harper Lee, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary
Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#148) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Wally Hope on the front cover together with an interview with Paolo, the
Director of the new Wally Hope biopic inside, Doug looks at Kansas, Jon muses
about Jeremy Corbyn. Mike Oldfield and Tony Palmer, Doug writing about Kansas,
Lee about Pink Military and Max's account of going to see King Crimson. We
review the controversial new book by Harper Lee which isn't a new book at all,
Neil unearths a hidden gem by The Beatles. 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 the third of four Strange
Harvest radio specials from the folk wot bring you Strange Fruit. There is also
a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons wanting a
snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who stayed up too late last
night, 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:
Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Palmer, Al Stewart, Morrissey, New Order, Glen
Campbell, Sister Sledge, Keith Richards, Brian May, Elephant's Memory,
Badfinger, Joey Molland, Sleaford Mods, Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life, Strange
Harvest, Friday Night Progressive, Martin "Kiddie" Kearns, Gary Dean Richrath,
Bryn Merrick, Hugh Hopper, The Pirates, Ducks Deluxe, The Pirates, Wilko
Johnson, Dr. John, Johnny Winter & Uncle John Turner, Billy Cobham, Brand
x, Pete Sears, Frank Zappa, Wally Hope, Paolo Sedazzari, Kansas, Max Blake, King
Crimson, Lee Walker,Pink Military, Jayne Casey, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Lemmy,
Steve Hillage, Elvis Presley, Flaming Lips, Cher, John Lennon, Elton John,
Wham!, Neil Nixon, The Beatles, Bucovina
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
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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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
old hippy of 56 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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?