The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
It is a beautiful sunny day, I overslept massively, and I have absolutely
nothing to say, except that I feel surprisingly at ease with the universe,
although that might just be because I have only been up for forty minutes and
nothing has gone wrong yet. I need to apologise grovellingly to Judge Smith. I
was supposed to telephone him yesterday, and things got in the way. Please
forgive me old friend. The only other thing of note is that I saw two silver
washed fritillaries (or one twice) in the garden yesterday, for the first time
in about seven years. What is a silver washed fritillary? This is:
They are my favourite British butterfly, and I particularly like Argynnis
paphia ssp. paphia f. valesina although I have never seen one. Shoshannah and
Olivia should thank their lucky stars because if I had ever had a biological
daughter of my own I should have very much wanted to call her Valesina.
And now I am on the want again. It is time, once again, for me to remind
you all about this year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant,
and a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make
me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..
find out all about the Weird Weekend
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: LA FEMME VERTE - SMALL...
Interview with Eric Burdon (The Animals)
HAWKWIND - RARE "ON TOUR " DOCUMENTARY
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Dave Bainbridge BCB Radio interview pre 18 7 15 ho...
Gonzo Magazine #184
Mick Abrahams, Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull. The Who, Quintessence, Raja Ram,
Lev Grossman, Bruce Springsteen, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary
Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
And once again we have another monumental groovefest for you all, starting
with the Mick Abrahams Benefit at The Borderline in pictures, Alan writes
about Quintessence and Raja Ram, Doug goes to see The Who, Shosh goes to see
Bruce Springsteen, Jon goes to the magickal land of Fillory and bitches about
the government. Biffo in the meantime, goes on a ghost train. Bloody hell we’re
great!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontières,
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 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:
Pink Floyd, Stick Men, Prince, Tony Henderson, Pink Fairies, Carl Palmer,
Keith Emerson, Corky Laing, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Nicholas "Nick" Menza,
Herbert Tsangtse "Burt" Kwouk, OBE, 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, Mick Abrahams, The Who, Alan Dearling,
Quintessence, Raja Ram, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Shoshannah
McCarthy, Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, The Beatles, Bill Graham, Happy
Mondays, Berry Gordy, Neil Nixon, The Butthole Surfers
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)
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!
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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
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* 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?
