The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
One of the most striking talks at the recent Weird Weekend was—as I have
mentioned elsewhere—by Matthew Watkins who is better known to Gonzo afficianados
for presenting the monthly radio show celebration of Canterbury music. His talk
was about mathematical proofs of time playing silly buggers (although he put it
far more elegantly than that, and as far as I recall didn’t use the term ’silly
buggers’ once). But time does play silly buggers. I have spent months
alternately looking forward to and dreading the seventeenth Weird Weekend, and
now it is a whole week since it started. Where has that intervening week gone? I
have absolutely no idea. I had a birthday, drank too much brandy one night, put
this issue of the magazine together, drank too much vodka last night, and now I
am writing this with a nagging and mildly irritating hangover. I know that dear
Chloe was here for a couple of afternoons working, I know that she and I
corrected a proof by Brian Allan, and finished Karl Shuker’s book on the Loch
Ness Monster. I know I have been reading the various books I got for my birthday
and listening fairly solidly to The Beatles white album, but I have no idea in
real terms what has happened to the last few days.
Weird huh?
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if
you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
And now for the news................
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Fairport Convention, R...
BRIAN MAY: The extension of the badger cull is hor...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
GREGG KOFI BROWN REVIEW
Gonzo Magazine #196
We talk to the mighty Paul May about his work on Al Atkins’ (ex Judas
Priest) anthology. Alan investigates glissando guitar, Doug goes to see
Radiohead, and Jon burbles on about John Lennon.
Funky eh?
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a
thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to
do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
John Lennon, Madness, Prince, Icarus Peel, John Blaneym Brimsley Schwarz,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Kenneth
George "Kenny" Baker, Ruby Wilson, David Enthoven, Barbara Gibb, The Boomtown
Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Paul May, Al Atkins, Radiohead, Alan Dearling,
Steve Hillage, Gong, Glissando Orchestra, Neil Nixon, The Beatles, Chris
Hadfield, Starmus Festival, Ken Gerhard, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Stacia,
Xtul, Cavern Club, James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Elvis, Devo, Brian Eno, Johnny
Cash
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock
journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to
write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and
want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at
gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and 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.co.uk
* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?
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