The Gonzo Daily - Monday/Tuesday
Good morning campers.
In fact, it's half way through the afternoon but as Matthew Watkins so
succinctly proved at the Weird Weekend time is a load of bollocks anyway. In
fact he didn’t say anything of the sort. However, T. S Elliot did say:
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future
and time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility.
And if that isn't a stylish way of suggesting that time is complete
bollocks, then I don't know what is. So, boys and girls, another week begins.
Chloe and I are taking arms against a sea of troubles, or as Horace Coker said,
a sea of bubbles, and are making some vague sense of things. We can't really
hope for any better than that.
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if
you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
And now for the news................
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Steve Hillage - The Sa...
BEATLES MYTHS AND LEGENDS: What might have been
Gregg Kofi Brown Belgium Book review translated
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
GONZO PEOPLE: Neil Nixon
Gonzo Magazine #199
In this magnificently groovy issue Doug goes to see the latest incarnation
of Yes and is very impressed, Alan, Jon and Tim bid farewell to the Marmite-like
Richard Neville, and John waxes lyrical about Linda Imperial. And Alan goes to a
folkie pub and visits Graham Keen’s exhibition 1966 and All That, and interviews
the man himself. Jon, on the other hand, finishes Miss Peregrine's peculiar
trilogy.
Good ‘ere innit?
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive takes a week off. 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:
Richard Neville, Stevie Nicks, David Bowie, Iman, Loretta Lynn, Price, The
Revolution, Nico, Velvet Underground, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery
Hour, Clifford Curry Jnr., Gerald E. "Jerry" Heller, Fred Hellerman, Martin
Stephenson, Jeff Wayne/Radio Luxembourg, Dee Palmer, Arthur Brown, Rick Wakeman,
Pink Fairies, Captain Beefheart, Joe Cocker, Rick Wakeman and Mario Fasciano,
Rick Wakeman and Brian May, Barbara Dickson, Yes, Tim Rundall, John Brodie-Good,
Linda Imperial Band, Alan Dearling, Graham Keen, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind,
Xtul, The Beatles, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Sheila Chandra and the Ganges
Orchestra
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
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!
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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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
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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 57 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?
