The Gonzo Daily - On the Seventh Day of Christmas
I am hungover, feeling less than hearty
but tonight we are having a New Year's party
with a Grande Fromage and a druid as well
and an insect geneticist with tales to tell,
Ring out the Old, Ring in the New,
there is a terrible amount of things to do
GONZO WEEKLY NEW YEAR SPECIAL
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Ding Dong, Ding Dong -...
PHOENIX AMERICANA SUPERGROUP THE ODD BYRDS PAYS TR...
Gonzo Weekly #163
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Lemmy, Hawkwind, Bridget Wishart, Twink, Brand X, Percy Jones, Digitiser,
Mr Biffo, Jaki Windmill, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion,
Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
What was once supposed to be the "Ring out the Old, Ring in the New, Blah
Blah Blah" edition has become a tribute to the recently deceased Lemmy, together
with Jon's look back at the best records of the year, Doug's look at the best
gigs, an interview with one-time Hawkwind chanteuse Bridget Wishart, another
with Brand X bass dude Percy Jones, a review of Hawkwind during 2015, and
columns from all sorts of folk including Mr Biffo. And all this during what is
euphemistically known as 'The Festive Season'. Golly! There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antechinuses wanting
poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are slightly constipated, 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:
Jimmy Page, P J Harvey, AC/DC, Trent Reznor, The Beatles, Michael Jackson,
EODM, Madonna, Wilko Johnson, David Bowie, Barbara Dickson, N.W.A., Galahad,
Strange Harvest, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jaki
Windmill, Tim Rundall, Adam Roth, Mick Lynch, Mary Joan Okum, James Hill OBE,
Peter Broggs, Johnny Winter, 13th Floor Elevators, Spirits Burning, The Pirates,
Dee Palmer, Freddie King, The Selecter, Ducks De Luxe, Alexis Korner, James
Brown, John Lee Hooker, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Judge Smith, John Brodie
Good, Public Service Broadcasting, The Long Lost Band, Jacqui McShee's
Pentangle, Spooky Ghost, Gary Duncan Quicksilver, Drones for Daevid, Pink
Fairies, John Martyn, Liz Lenten, Wreckless Eric, Howard Eynon, Roy Weard, Trim
Tab Jim, My Dad's LPs, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo, Ken Worthington, John
Shuttleworth, Hawkwind, Alan Friswell, Xtul, Elvis, Black Sabbath, One
Direction, Cliff Richard, Yoko Ono, Yes, Neil Nixon, Emit Bloch, Cave
Growl
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
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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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 young lady called Jessica. 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?
