The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
I am not sure what the Transatlantic equivalent is here, but when I was a
boy I used to read The Beano and The Dandy, two (sadly functionally defunct)
comics which were published by a company in the Scottish town of Dundee. I say
‘functionally defunct’ because whilst The Dandy has gone the way of all flesh,
The Beano is still published albeit in a form unrecognisable to those who - like
me - were aficionados of the comic back in the sixties.
Every summer there was a double issue, called the Bumper Book of Holiday
Fun or something like that, and it was only since I reached Man’s estate that I
realised that the reason for this was that the staff, probably specifically the
folk who worked in the print works, could have their annual holiday. Well, just
like most things that happen in Gonzo Weekly, this seems like a jolly good idea
and I am going to nick it. Next week I have a family wedding in Staffordshire
followed by a visit to my granddaughters in Norfolk, and there is a fair amount
of pootling about the countryside on matters appertaining to my elderly
mother-in-law, and I also want to go and see the Indopacific crocodiles at
Thrigby Hall whilst we are in Norfolk, and I want to buy my granddaughters
colourful sun hats, and so I am going to be away from home for about a week. It
would be possible for me to try and mastermind the production and dissemination
of the magazine from my ipad in some motorway service station somewhere up or
down the M6, but it seems like a far better idea to take a leaf out of the
rulebook of the creators of Desperate Dan and Corky the Cat and inaugurate the
first ever Gonzo Bumper book of Holiday Fun and Games.
So this weekend you are going to get a double issue - The Gonzo Summer
Special with a mixture of old and new stuff for your delight and
amazement!
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:
And now the news:
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COMING THIS WEEKEND
Hawkwind interview by It's Psychedelic Baby Magazi...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Interview with Arthur Brown - The God of Hellfire
Gonzo Magazine #186
To mark the launch this week of the dedicated Facebook page for Neil
Nixon’s extraordinary new book about Beatles
folklore we have an
exclusive extract, Alan goes to see Braniac 5 and The Green Ray, Doug
eulogises Talking Heads, Jon reviews a book about The Band and burbles on
about Santana, Judy Dyble remembers Dave Swarbrick, while Corinna talks about
jolly nice Traffic Wardens. Just another day chez Gonzo.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and 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:
Santana, Karnataka, Paradise 9, Ray Bennett, Quadrophenia, Abba, Brian May,
Axl Rose, Paul McCartney, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progessive, Mack Maloney's
Mystery Hour, David Cyril Eric Swarbrick, Muhammad Ali, Robert Allen "Bobby"
Curtola, CM, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band,
Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Neil
Nixon, The Beatles, Talking Heads, Alan Dearling, The Green Ray, Brainiac 5, Roy
Weard, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, The Band, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Bob Dylan,
Sebastian Cabot
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
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:
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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