The Gonzo Daily - Monday/Tuesday
And so we start another week. Chloe was here for five hours today and
worked her little fingers to the metaphorical bone. Karl Shuker's book on Loch
Ness is now available, and I shall be writing more about it over the next few
days, and the Muirhead's Mysteries book will be out soon. We have also worked on
Barbara Dickson's autobiography and all sorts of other odds and sods, and it has
been a very productive and enjoyable day.
And now for the news................
FROM THE BESTEMMING PROJECT
TONY PALMER INTERVIEW
MJ12 Review
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Search God Within - Si...
Gram Parsons - On WBCN Radio Show
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:
Gonzo Magazine #202
This week, as John looks at Gong’s first album since Gilli and Daevid’s
deaths, Jon looks at the history of the band and their legacy, discovers the
campaign to save Tin Pan Alley, and enthuses over a book about the unreleased
music and film of The Beatles. Alan investigates Ryley Walker, and Doug goes to
see ELO.
Good ‘ere innit?
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:
Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Jack Lancaster, John Shuttleworth, Dave Gilmour,
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sharon Osbourne, Pete Doherty, Marillion, John Lennon,
Unicef, Bono, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery
Hour, Claiborne Joseph Cheramie, Kashif Saleem (previously Michael Jones), Hagen
Friedrich Liebing, Ollie Imogene "Jean" Shepard, Stanley Dural, Jr., Mike
“Taffy” Taylor, Buster, Newquay, Ludo, Percy, Lemmy, Truddle, Owlie, Blossom,
Friendly and Arthur, the Humboldt Penguins from Exmoor Zoo, Rick Wakeman, Martin
Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher & Barbara Dickson, Binky Womack,
Arthur Brown, Nils Lofgren, Jackie Lee, Henry Scott-Irvine, Electric Light
Orchestra, Alan Dearling, Ryley Walker, John Brodie-Good, Gong, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Johnny Winter, Lemmy, Isaac Hayes, Grateful Dead, The
Beatles, Richard Cheese
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
Issue 199 (Yes)
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!
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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
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* 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?
