The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
A strange day today. I got up out of the wrong side of the bed this morning
and was completely bloody useless for the first few hours. So I went to sleep in
my armchair at two, slept until five, and in the words of the Fab Four, I feel
Fine!
Another EU controversy is nigh as officials from 29 African states say they
are appalled by an EU decision to oppose a comprehensive global ban on the ivory
trade. An existing global embargo on ivory sales is due to end in 2017 and
Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa and Botswana are pushing for it to be replaced
with a decision-making mechanism for future tusk trading, at the Convention on
International Trade in International Species (Cites) conference in Johannesburg
this September. However, the African Elephant Coalition (AEC) – a coalition of
29 African states – is warning of a mass extinction on the continent within 25
years, unless elephants are given an ‘Annex I’ Cites listing, which would ban
any future domestic ivory trade.
As I said yesterday, I hope that I am wrong, but it is looking as if a
mixture of apathy, happenstance, and the fact that nobody has any money due to
the Government's austerity measures, will probably call time on the Weird
Weekend after this year. I always said that I would do ten and this one will be
the seventeenth. Ticket sales are the slowest ever. I strongly suspect that it
is because of the financial insecurity that so many people are feeling at the
moment, but I hope that it will turn itself around in the next few weeks. 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 for the news................
Wild Man Fischer: An Evening With Wild Man Fischer...
Album review: GREG KOFI BROWN – Rock ‘n’ Roll And ...
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Al Stewart - Roads to...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #191
We interview Ian Jones from everyone’s fave Welsh rockers Karnataka, Doug
muses on Rush, Alan grieves for music venues under threat, John goes to see
Santana, and Jon expounds on hippydom and reviews a book by John Lennon’s
mistress, while Biffo goes Ghostbusting!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, 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
thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside 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:
The RAZ Band, John Shuttleworth, Yoko Ono, Dolly Parton, Jon Anderson,
Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman, David Gilmour, Meat Loaf, Led Zeppelin, Robert
Plant, Jimmy Page, Randy California, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Steven Young, Danny Smythe, Gladys Hermiston-Hooper
(née Nash), Arthur Brown, The Beatles, The Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic
Encounters, Richard Brautigan, Karnataka, Ian Jones, Rush, Alan Dearling, John
Brodie-Good, Santana, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, John Lennon, May
Pang, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Glastonbury, Paul McCartney, Neil
Nixon, Cantona,
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
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:
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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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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?
