The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
My friend Andrea who is well on her way to being a qualified astrologer,
says that 2016 is a year when all sorts of systems are breaking down, and giving
people a chance to rebuild from the bottom up. I am not sure how much I believe
in astrology, which to paraphrase February Callender (who, by the way is not an
entirely fictional character because my old dog bit her alter ego once many
years ago) in Friday’s Tunnel probably means that I don’t believe in it much at
all, but on this occasion I believe that she is spot on.
Looking around, even on the world stage, everything is collapsing around
us. For years I have been sighing and noting that we “live in strange and
disturbing times”, and they have been getting worse. Soon, I hope that they will
reach a nadir, and that Andrea is right, and it is time that people will start
rebuilding their systems and structures in order to be appropriate for this
brave new world in which we are all living.
All a bit metaphysical? I should coco, but it is only Thursday lunchtime,
and the great and good of Cryptozoology will descend on my garden for drinks in
a few short hours. Why? Cos it is the seventeenth Weird Weekend...
find out all about the Weird Weekend
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
This year's Progframme
And now for the news................
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Hawkwind - Solitary Ma...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Paul McCartney interview on Charlie Rose (1991)
Maria Callas, interview
Chris Squire - Master Class
Gonzo Magazine #195
The good people of Seaton pay tribute to Dave Brock of Hawkwind, Doug goes
to see LCD Soundsystem, Jon muses on legendary unreleased music and wonders why
so much of it is crap, Alan visits Ladies Day at the Festivals, and we look at a
new book on Crass
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:
Dolly Parton, Tony Iommi, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples, Adam
Lambert, Gregg Allman, Jack White, Rolling Stones, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Padraig Duggan, William Edward "B. E."
Taylor, Richard Fagan, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Hawkwind, LCD
Soundsystem, Alan Dearling, Kosfest, Ladies Day, Julia Quinn, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Xtul, Crass, Elton John, Elvis, Bob Marley, Alberta Casey
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
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!
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journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
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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? 