The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
I was being so bullish yesterday about not having overslept. And guess what
happened today? I overslept. I have a reasonable excuse though. One of my
favourite books has always been My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell -
the story of his childhood in Corfu. I have loved that book so much that I
almost called the book I am writing at the moment (which is the story of my
childhood in Hong Kong) "My Family and other Manipulative Psychopaths" or "My
Family and other Colonial Wasters" (the latter also giving a nod to our Rog) but
I decided against it. Durrell's book has been dramatised several times and I
have watched them all. Last night I sat up late watching the first three
episodes of the latest version on ITVplayer, And I have to admit that - despite
being somewhat cavalier with the timelines of the three books which make up 'The
Corfu Trilogy' - that they were very good, and might even have captured the
essence of Durrell's prose, and his brother Larry's book - Prospero's Cell -
about the family's sojourn on the island, better than any of the others. Mind
you I was drinking a couple of bottles of red wine while I watched it...
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Perfect Day, by La Fem...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Jon Downes meets Keith Levene
The Al Stewart Story - narrated by Alan Parsons
Rick Wakeman in conversation, 1980
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:
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
Gonzo Magazine #178
Viv Stanshall, Mike Livesley, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Fred Frith,
Armando Gallo, French-Frith-Kaiser-Thompson, Ra ra riot, Arthur Brown, C S
Lewis, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Astor Piazzolla, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That
Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End is on the front cover, there is an interview
with Mike Livesley who is the mastermind of the latest revival inside, together
with Alan's notstalgic look at the original mastermind, Viv Stanshall. Doug
raves about Ra Ra Riot, whilst John goes to see Arthur Brown. Jon goes all South
American whilst Alan muses on French-Frith-Kaiser-Thompson, and interviews the
legendary Fred Frith. We send legendary rock and roll photojournalist Armando
Gallo to a desert island, review a book about C S Lewis, and there are radio
shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, as well as the return of Friday Night
Progressive, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all
sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible
Corinna who this week has Elvis in her sights (uh huh huh). There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside
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:
Alfredo Zitarrosa, Astor Piazzolla, The Who, Ringo Starr, Bruce
Springsteen, Alan Dearling, Tony Hawk, Led Zeppelin, John Ellis, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Robbie Brennan, Anthony
Schmaltz "Tony" Conrad, Earl Solomon Burroughs (Jack Hammer), Captain Beefheart,
Brand X, Osibisa, Pink Fairies, Gram Parson's The International Submarine Band,
Gib Guilbeau, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Sons of Fred, Percy Jones, Norman Wisdom
featuring Rick Wakeman, Viv Stanshall, Michael Livesley, Ra Ra Riot, French
Frith Kaiser Thompson, Roy Weard, John Brodie-Good, Arthur Brown, Mr Biffo,
Armando Gallo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Walter Hooper, C S Lewis, George Michael, Sex
Pistols, Beethoven, Johnny Rotten, Neil Nixon, Paul Buchanan, Folkstone
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
Issue 165 (David Bowie)
Issue 164 (Free Festivals)
Issue 163 (Lemmy)
Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)
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)
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:
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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.
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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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
