The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
The post has once again been pleasantly innocuous. I am currently reading
Frederick Forsyth's autobiography and am surprised to find things that I know
full well to be factual inaccuracies, as well as some shoddy editing. I know
that I am hardly one to talk on that score, but one would hope that the
proofreadinhg department of Corgi books has more in terms of manpower than a
brace of ageing and rather dotty hippies.
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,
sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of
Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and
featuring 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: Kevin Ayers - Stranger...
Gib Guilbeau's 77th birthday jam
Soft Machine interview
Wayne Kramer's Flagrant Disregard For Authority - ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #185
Judge Smith, The Cure, Whole Earth Catalog, William Shakespeare, The
Beatles, Dead Fred, Alternative London, The Preacher, Garth Ennis, 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, bringing
you up to date with Judge Smith's lost prog rock masterpiece, sending Dead Fred
to a desert island, while Doug goes to see The Cure, Alan goes to watch The
Taming of the Shrew in Shakespeare's own theatre, Jon drools over Beatles
guitars and is surprisingly kind about the pilot episode of The Preacher, and
alongside all of this John B-G remembers Alternative London and the Whole Earth
Catalog, And Biffo? He unearths some particularly disturbing examples of Mutant
Turtle cosplay. This issue goes out with love to Dr Demitrius who died this
week.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive takes a week off because of Vickistock which is described in
words and pictures. 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:
Preacher, Songs from the Black Meadow, Crass, Iona, Dave Bainbridge, Sally
Minnear, Roger Daltrey, Quadrophenia, Paul McCartney, Oasis, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Carla Lane, Harambe, Alan
Wise, Marshall "Rock" Jones, Thomas Fekete, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom
Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band, Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick
Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Judge Smith, The Cure, Alan Dearling, Taming of the
Shrew, Roy Weard, John Brodie-Good, Mr Biffo, Xtul, Dead Fred, The Beatles,
Rolling Stones, Adam Ant, Bob Dylan, Joy Division, Neil Nixon, Cabaret
Voltaire
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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!
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.
* 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?
