The Gonzo Daily - Monday
Today upon waking up early, I decided to get up and have the house to
myself for a few hours. Basically my plan was to drink coffee, wake up slowly
and write the Weird Weekend press release. But it didn’t work out like that. The
telephone rang, I had a whole string of messages come through on my iPad, and
both Graham and Mother were up within minutes of my coming downstairs. Never
mind. They made me the coffee, and I got the Press Release written.
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,
but I will still be disappointed of it has to end. 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................
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Richard Brautigan-1983 Swiss T.V. (Interview/readi...
Captain Beefheart - Co De Kloet Interview (July 23...
Frank Zappa - Interview - 12/8/1984 - unknown (Off...
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: 10 String Symphony - "...
Gonzo Magazine #192
What happens when the keyboard player from Yes shares a stage with the
guitarist from Queen? Doug tells you all about it. Meanwhile, Alan is at the
Edinburgh Blues and Jazz festival, our old mate Andy Roberts takes some acid
(and Jon writes about it as well as asking whether the world of Narnia is
sexist?) What other magazine gives you all this for free?
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Canterbury Sans
Frontières, 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:
Steve Hillage, Keith Richards, The Beatles, Alan White, Bono, Ozzy and
Sharon Osbourne, Elton John, Queen, Boruch Alan Bermowitz (Alan Vega), Erik
Petersen, Les Stocker, Bonnie Jean Brown, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown, The
Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic Encounters, Richard Brautigan, Brian May,
English Rock Ensemble, Alan Dearling, Ten String Symphony, Hillfolk Noir, Mr
Sipp, Rad Trads, Jan Garbarek Group, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Andy
Roberts, Roy Wood, The Eagles, Crosby, Still & Nash, The Monkees, Neil
Nixon, The Cardboard Lung
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
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)
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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 