The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
"You started telling me a funny story, and I fell asleep
Oh Wot a dream that was"
I have just returned from the podiatrist in Bideford, and it appears that I
have ulcerated pressure sores on each foot from sitting in the same position too
long. The one on my left foot is particularly bad, and I have been warned that
it could have very serious complications. The a-word was even used. You know;
the one that rhymes with amplification but has nothing to do with music or
electricity. As I told the podiatrist (who was very sweet to me) I have no
objections to getting legless but I don’t wish to BE legless.
"Oh Wot a dream that was"
And there are problems with my potential tenants in my Exeter house. After
what happened with the last bunch I want a month’s rent in advance. I have no
intention of becoming a nasty slum landlord, and - in fact - I want to be as
kind and equitable as I can be. But I don’t want to find myself, once again,
being a patsy that is being taken advantage of left right and centre.
"Oh Wot a dream that was"
Talking of Exeter, the Royal Clarence Hotel in Cathedral Close is currently
in flames, and there are great fears that many of Exeter’s oldest and most loved
buildings are at risk. The Cavern Club was torched some weeks ago, and I believe
that there have been other fires in recent weeks, some of which have been
confirmed as arson.
"Oh Wot a dream that was"
But the new album by The Divine Comedy is their best in maybe eighteen
years, and young master Hannon is on top form. This is the latest in a glut of
great records that have appeared this autumn. At least the crappy times
elsewhere in life are being given a soundtrack par excellence…
"You started telling me a funny story, and I fell asleep
Oh Wot a dream that was"
And now for the news................
COMING THIS WEEKEND
Pink Fairies - the snake (john peel session)
Barbara Dickson - Caravans
Peter Hammill interview - Schio, 11th May 2012
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Brahms - Symphony No. ...
Gonzo Magazine #205
We have exciting news about the new Pink Fairies album together with
exclusive photographs of them in rehearsal, Jon burbles on about Alan Bennett
and the movie of The Lady in the Van, Doug goes to see The Specials, and Alan
meets Lenny Helsing, whilst we run a book review a century and a half
late.
Good ‘ere innit?
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive, and because last week was a full moon, Canterbury Sans
Frontieres. 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:
Alan Bennett, Maggie Smith, The Who, Boy George, Rolling Stones, The Last
Shadow Puppets, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Chuck Berry, John Lydon, Leonard Cohen,
Bart Lancia, Alan Dearling, Clowns, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans Frontieres,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Robert “Big Sonny”
Edwards, William Nelson "Sonny" Sanders, Robert Bateman, Rick Wakeman, Martin
Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher & Barbara Dickson, Binky Womack,
Arthur Brown, Nils Lofgren, Jackie Lee, The Pink Fairies, The Specials, Lenny
Helsing, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Little Richard, Michael Jackson,
Elvis, Gizz Butt, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Martin Springett, The Gardening
Club, Jules Verne, Neil Nixon, Keith Christmas
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 204 (Gas Tank)
Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)
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!
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* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
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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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 
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