The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
I don’t want to continually be bellyaching about things, but this growing
old business is nowhere near as much fun as one has been led to believe. The
books I read as a child portray older folk like what I am, as being wise, with
grey beards and twinkling eyed which bely a calm good humour. Well, my beard is
far more grey than I realised until I gave it a fairly radical trim a couple of
weeks back, but my eyes only twinkle in an appropriate light, and whereas I have
developed a certain low cunning, I would hesitate to describe myself as “wise”.
I am far more bad tempered than I was a few years ago, and each day I seem to
have a new ache or pain, or discover that another bit of me has dropped off or
stopped working. I am afraid classic children's literature lied to me.
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 here is the news:
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Mike Clark Interview (Brand-X drummer on Product)
Carl Palmer and Arthur Brown talk about the 60s
The Pink Fairies, The Pigs of Uranus, Single 1972
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Barbara Dickson - Anot...
Gonzo Magazine #210
In this mesmerising issue we look at she who was Nico, Doug was in the
audience when it all got weird for Kanye West, so unlike everyone else we can
print what REALLY happened, Alan looks at the music scene in Madeira, John was
there when Ryley Walker went electric, and Archie was there when Jon had mixed
feelings about J K Rowling, but at least he finally likes Paul Simon, (Jon that
is, Archie is still undecided).
Strange Days Indeed (Most Peculiar Mama)
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. The saga of Xtul gets
particularly nasty, but Neil Nixon, Richard Freeman and Strange Daze take
rainchecks this week. 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:
Binky Womack, Richard Palmer-James, Madonna, Steve Rothery Band, Elton
John, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Morrisey, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Craig Douglas Gill, Sharon
Lafaye Jones, Hugh McDonald, Donald “Don” Lee Waller, Walter Howard "Hod"
O'Brien, Joe Esposito, Spirits Burning and Clearlight, Vangelis, Al Atkins,
Atomic Rooster, Rick Wakeman, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher
& Barbara Dickson, Nico, Pink Fairies, Kanye West, Alan Dearling, The
Camachofones, Andrei Ladeichikov, Quatro Litros, John Brodie-Good, Ryley
Walker, Itasca, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, J K
Rowling, nDavid Bowie, Adam Ant, Elvis, Neil Nixon, C.O.B. (Clive’s Original
Band)
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 209 (Pink Floyd)
Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)
Issue 207 (Tibet)
Issue 206 (Raz)
Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)
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!
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 a Jack Russel cvalled Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?
