The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Thank you to everyone who has written to me in support after my ATOS
assessment on Monday. It was degrading, frightening, dehumanising and the whole
thing has upset me more than I like to admit, and I truly fear for the people
who have to deal with such things without the benefit of the support network
that I have. I have a beautiful wife, and a kind and loyal carer, and a network
of friends. The disputed benefits are not my entire income so if they do take
them away it will be difficult but I will not starve, and neither will my family
or animals. But I fear that people who are not as lucky as me will be chewed up,
spat out and forgotten by a heartless beaurocratic machine. From where I am
sitting it feels like a systematic ethnic cleansing of an unfortunate
underclass.
And this is BEFORE I get the result of my assessment, even though I am
pretty damn sure that I know what the answer will be. And, by the way, nobody
has yet noticed my little piece of Photoshop graffiti on the FB picture of me
with the wheelchair.
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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:
buy the CFZ 2016 Yearbook:
Gonzo Magazine #183
Gong, Daevid Allen, Harry Williamson, Joe Walsh, Bad Company, Beatles, Paul
McCartney, Beatles, Tellytubbies, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary
Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
Oh wot a luvverly issue we have for you this week: Thom the World Poet
introduces a selection of archive pictures of Daevid Allen and Harry Williamson
and other Gongfolk in Melbourne, Allan looks at the history of alternative
culture in Bognor, John celebrates the life of Paul Kantner with the pilgrimage
of a lifetime, Doug talks about Joe Walsh and Bad Company, Jon reviews a book
about Paul McCartney, and says goodbye to the irreplaceable Dave McMann, and
Biffo
looks at the nastier
side of Tellytubbies
fan art. Bloody hell
we’re great!
And there
are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night
Progressive. We also have 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. 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:
Dave McMann, Paul McCartney, Boris Savoldelli, Elektro Hafiz, Tony
Henderson, Pink Fairies, Yes, Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Guy Charles Clark, Paul
Alva Smoker, John Berry, Emilio Navaira III, The Beatles, Osibisa, Billy Cobham,
Wayne Kramer at the Pink Fairies, Al Stewart, The RAZ Band, The Flying Burrito
Bros, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Wakeman, Gong, Bad Company, Joe Walsh, Alan
Dearling, Shoreline Club, Roy Weird, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, Jefferson
Airplane, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Lemmy, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Neil
Nixon, Kate Bush
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 182 (Wally)
Issue 181 (Beatles)
Issue 180 (Beltane)
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
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)
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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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?
