The Gonzo Daily - Friday
Yesterday I had a telephone call from a woman with a most unattractive
accent: "Hello, is that Mr Downes?"
I replied in the affirmative.
"Before we go any further, you must answer some security
questions..."
But I wasn't having it. "Who are you?" I asked.
"I cannot answer that until you answer the security questions", she
said.
I summoned up every ounce of my late Mother's haughty demeanour when
dealing with recalcitrant and/or impudent tradespersons:
"My Dear. In my family one doesn't talk to people who refuse to identify
themselves", and I put the telephone down.
Robert Browning said it best:
Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos!
'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon.
'Thinketh He made it, with the sun to match,
But not the stars; the stars came otherwise;
Only made clouds, winds, meteors, such as that:
Also this isle, what lives and grows thereon,
And snaky sea which rounds and ends the same.
Am I made today? You casn bet you arse.
And now for the news................
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Badfinger "Without You" 2002 doc
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Sensational Alex H...
COMING THIS WEEKEND
AT LAST.....
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 #203
This week, we discover the extraordinary art and music of Martin Springett
of The Gardening Club, John investigates Cary Grace, we find that Scott Walker
can still ...gasp... write tunes, Alan writes about Banksy and other street art,
and we are not very impressed by the latest slice of Harry Potter marketing.
And there is lots more besides.
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:
Scott Walker, Bad Touch, The Bestemming Project, Steve Hillage, Bart
Lancia, Arnold Palmer, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's
Mystery Hour, Stephen John Byrd, Michael Casswell, Royal Torrence "Little
Royal", Rodney Lynn "Rod" Temperton, Joan Marie Johnson Faust, Caroline Crawley,
Donald H White, Rick Wakeman, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher
& Barbara Dickson, Binky Womack, Arthur Brown, Nils Lofgren, Jackie Lee,
Martin Springett, Alan Dearling, Banksy, John Brodie-Good, Cary Grace, Mr Biffo,
Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Harry Potter, Justin Bieber, Grateful Dead, John
Lennon, The Ramones, The Beatles, Neil Nixon, Chimes of St. Dormition,
Focus
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 202 (Gong)
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!
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 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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 
