The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
I am currently reading 'Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the
Twentieth Century' by John Higgs, who is another one of those interesting people
that I know vaguely. I invited him to the Weird Weekend a few years ago, after I
read his massively entertaining and thought-provoking book about Messrs Drummond
and Cauty (with whom I suspect most readers of my inky fingered scribblings
(here and elsewhere) will know I am mildly obsessed. John then gave me a copy of
his excellent novel 'The Brandy of the Damned' which I enjoyed immensely. But
this new book of his may well be the single most terrifying thing that I have
ever read. Suddenly a lot of things make sense, and NOT in a good way.
And here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Paul Hindemith - Strin...
COMING THIS WEEKEND
Peter Hammill Interview from 1984
JEFFERSON STARSHIP NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #223
THE COR FAB FOUR WAR ISSUE
In this exciting issue, Jon critiques Tony Palmer’s reboot of what was the
worst and weirdest Beatles film ever, Doug enthuses on Camel, Alan meets DJ
Jeremiayah, John looks at the Spirit albums released after Randy California’s
untimely death, Igor presents a dialogue on acoustic philosophy, and there are
lots of other things as well!
Groovy huh?
It’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive,
Strange Fruit, Jeremy Smith's new project The Seven Deadly Sins, and an episode
of Canterbury Sans Frontieres which fell through the cracks of my emails. We
also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil
Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. 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:
The Beatles, Nile Rodgers, Belle & Sebastian, David Cassidy, David
Bowie, The Human Be-In, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Strange Fruit, Canterbury sans Frontieres, Larry Coryell, Clyde Stubblefield,
Peter Skellern, Evan Sewell Wallace (e-dubble), Alan Aldridge, Supertramp, Tony
Ashton & Jon Lord, Lutz Ulbrich featuring Nico, Pink Fairies, Camel, Alan
Dearling, Reggae Got Soul, DJ Jeremiyah (Jerry Neville), John Brodie-Good, Randy
California, Kev Rowland, Unwritten Pages, Avenford, Betontod, Captain of the
Lost Waves, Code, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Geoffrey Paul Boers, Igor Neshcheret,
Xtul, Martin Springett, Ella Fitzgerald, Nsync, Clockwork Orange, The Residents,
Lemmy, Neil Nixon, Criswell
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
Issue 217 (Dig Doug Harr)
Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)
Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)
Issue 212 (Greg Lake)
Issue 211 (Phil Collins)
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)
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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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 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?
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