The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
And so another week dawns and Chloe and I are toiling with various bits of
odds and sods, prior to closing down in time for what is euphemistically known
as the festive season.
A few years ago I went to see a school production of what was basically
Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. I came away feeling rather sorry for
Ebenezer Scrooge. There he is, poor bastard, trying to run a business when he is
continually confronted by moaning staff, and ghosts everywhere. And is it just
me who wants to give Tiny Tim a punch in the face? I however, have no such
problems. My entire staff (Chloe) is charming, witty, and works harder than I do
and I think that she is highly unlikely to dress up as a ghost and to get me to
see the error in my ways.
"God bless us, every one!"
And here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: JOHN LENNON Watching t...
A prog-rock member of the Gardening Club - talks
MJ12 Progression Mag US review
Spirits Burning Dutch review translated
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #211
As Phil Collins releases his autobiography, Doug critiques it and remembers
the glory days of Brand X, Alan examines a Portuguese book about The Beatles,
but ARW postpone their SF show, John is less than enthusiastic about Kate Bush,
Corinna finds some good shit, and Jon sneers at Tex Watson!
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, . 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:
Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman, Marvin Gardens, Loretta Lynn, Prince, Neil
Young, Eric Clapton, Marillion, Kate Bush, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progessive, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, Shirley Bunnie Foy, Colonel Abrams, Tony
Martell, Carlton Kitto, Raymond John Patrick "Ray" Columbus OBE, Larry Rust,
Andreas Siegfried "Andrew" Sachs, Spirits Burning and Clearlight, Vangelis, Al
Atkins, Atomic Rooster, Rick Wakeman, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie
Fisher & Barbara Dickson, Brand X, Phil Collins, Alan Dearling, Beatlemania,
John Brodie-Good, Cary Grace, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin
Springett, Charles "Tex" Watson, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Neil Nixon, Miss
Pat Collins
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 210 (Nico)
Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)
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
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
old hippy of 57 who - together with a Jack Russell called 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?
