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The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

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I don't really know where to start. Monday night I was scheduled to do an episode of Colin Schneider's excellent Crypto Kid radio show at midnight. Only I had forgotten that the clocks had gone back so it was actually at one in the morning. So there I was sitting up in my armchair listening to Roy Weard's excellent new album and Brian Eno's 1974 LP 'Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy'.

 

THEN:

 

...in came Corinna clutching something small and feathery: it was a fledgling robin that had been brought in by Dotty Periwinkle the small cat with a peculiar half moustache. She put it in a small box in the dark and left it to calm down. Twenty minutes later in came Dotty with another one. Then my iPad packed up, which was a problem, because I needed it to do Colin's radio show via Skype. I managed to fix it with minutes to spare and was able to do the radio show as planned.

 

BUT THEN:

 

Corinna went in to the office to show Julia how to feed baby birds, and the little buggers a#escaped and flappily scurried around the room. By the time they had recaptured the errant fledglings I was in full flow about the breeding biology of the European eel.

 

AND THEN WE WENT TO BED...BUT:

 

The next morning in came Dotty with a third fledgling. Corinna took the three babies into the Conservatory to find the big flight cage that Graham made for Martha the baby pigeon a few years back. But more by luck than judgement they all escaped again and scurried to the four corners of the conservatory. On top of this, there were a pair of frantic adult robings scurrying about the outside of the conservatory and divebombing the cats when they came close.

 

SO:

 

Graham and Corinna opened the window just wide enough for the adult robins to come in and feed their offspring, and this has worked remarkably well. Two of the babies are still alive this morning and the one that we can see is being remarkably bouncy, hale and hearty. Last night had diabetic ice cream and interviewed Roy Weard about his aforementioned excellent new album, and today I am sat in my study with the door open top let in the fresh air, and am awaiting the arrival of little miss pupil for her weekly English lesson.

 

Good 'ere innit?

 

And now, here is the news:

 

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Alexis Korner - Get Of...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/the-gonzo-track-of-day-alexis-korner.html

FRANK ZAPPA IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/frank-zappa-in-news.html

YES IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/yes-in-news_19.html

JACKIE LEE REVIEW

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/jackie-lee-review_19.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_19.html

 

Gonzo Magazine #230

THE HEARTFUL OF SOUL ISSUE

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In order to provide a perfect literary counterpoint to you guzzling chocolate eggs and waving your arms around in delight, here is an issue in which Jon meets Binky Womack (yes, folks, he is one of those Womacks), Doug writes about Kate Bush, Neil writes about the Great Beast, and Alan roams the highways and byways of Lithuania in search of musical delights. And yes, there is lots more, and it is all free...

 

Groovy huh?

 

It’s all free!

 

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive, Strange Fruit, the sixth of Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins radio shows, and because it was a full moon this week another episode of 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 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:

 

ate Bush, Elton John, Rick Wakeman, David Bowie, John Otway, Roger Daltrey, New Order, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Brian Matthew, Glen O'Brien, Ben Lacy Speer, John Warren "J" Geils Jr., Toby Grafftey-Smith, Mika Vainio, Eric Cook, Emmie Beckitt and Rick Wakeman, Supertramp, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Mary Hopkin, Binky Womack, Alan Dearling, Rasa Serra and Saulius Petreikas, Kamaniu Silesis (perhaps Pinewood of the Bumblebees), Baltik Postfolk Alternative, Esatis, Skyle, Justin 3, Matt Winson Band, Kev Rowland, Jadis, Matthew Parmenter, Lioncage, Marduk, Tony Daunt and the Dauntless, Soniq Theater, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, Sex Pistols, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Linkin Park, Neil Nixon, Aleister Crowley

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo229.html

Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo228.html

Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo227.html

Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo225-6.html

Issue 224 (Hibernal)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo224.html

Issue 223 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo223.html

Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo222.html

Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo221.html

Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo220.html

Issue 219 (Martin Stone)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo219.html

Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo218.html

 

 

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

 

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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?