The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
So once again another week plods wearily off into the sunset as I write the
finishing paragraphs of this week’s magazine. This week I am exceptionally
jealous of one of our staff writers, John Brodie-Good, because he is presently
in Alaska looking at Bowhead whales, which were until recently one of the rarest
creatures on the planet, and something that i have always wanted to see. In
fact’ although I have seen various dolphins and porpoises, and an orca back in
the day when Legoland was Windsor Safari Park, and it was still considered
ethical to house these magnificent creatures in a swimming pool, I have never
seen any of the great whales, except for a brief sighting of a fraction of a
hump and the vanishing remains of the spume of what I was informed at the time
was a humpbacked whale somewhere between the Canary Islands and the Straits of
Gibraltar back in 1971.
TODAY'S WEIRD WEEKEND NEWS
The Devon Badger Group are going to be there this year, which will probably
provoke some more sniping against us from those who still believe what the
Government say about bovine tuberculosis. Personally I don’t believe what any
government says about anything!
There has been another change to the Weird Weekend lineup, Glen Vaudrey is
back again talking about the Health and Safety Beast and Richard will still be
talking about almasty - the semi mythical ape man from Central Asia - prior to
our second excursion to Russa next year. 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, at least for a while 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................
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Maria Callas - Puccin...
Denny Laine, Paul McCartney And Wings
Merrell Fankhauser Interviews Cyrille Verdeaux
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #193
We interview Martin Birke of the mighty Genre Peak about their
extraordinary new album, Doug goes to see Peter Gabriel and Sting, and Alan
concludes his visit to the Edinburgh Blues and Jazz Festival, while Jon muses on
The Eagles and Anton LaVay and looks at the most scurrilous book about the
Rolling Stones... What other magazine gives you all this for free?
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 Eagles, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dr Dre,Adam Lambert, The Who, Jack
White, Ozzy Osbourne, Marillion, Rick Springfield, Don McClean, Joe Perry,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Samuel Clarke "Sandy" Pearlman, Lewis "Lewie" Steinberg, Roye Albrighton,
Allan Curtis Barnes, Keith Gemmell, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown, The Beatles, The
Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic Encounters, Richard Brautigan, Martin Birke,
Genre Peak, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Alan Dearling, United Vibrations, Mop Mop
Sound System, Reggae Got Soul, Lightnin’ Malcolm, Blues and Beyond, John Nemeth
and Blue Dreamers, John Hunt, Chloe Louise Gray, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Richard
Freeman, Batman, Hawkwind, Xtul, The Rolling Stones, Bono, Debbie Harry, Kylie
Minogue, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, George Harrison, Neil Nixon, Walter
Carlos
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
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.
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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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 