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The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday

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Friday night was weird. I have seen sheet lightning before, but nothing like this. Trying to describe it without resorting to cliche is almost impossible. Great swathes of white electric light split the sky, and for the first time I could hear the rumble of thunder. I wasn’t the only one; Prudence, our eleven year old boxer/bulldog bitch is terrified of bangs, and always reacts badly to thunder or fireworks. She came rushing up the stairs with remarkable haste for such an elderly lady, and did a belly flop up onto the bed, whereupon she forcibly burrowed herself next to me for a cuddle.

 

Meanwhile the storm was almost upon us, and for the next twenty minutes or so I saw the most magnificent display of natural pyrotechnics that I have ever seen. In storybooks one reads about how the night sky is suddenly as bright as day after a particularly impressive lightning flash, but that is a completely inadequate description. The flashes of sheet lightning, which were coming every few minutes, were orgasmic in their intensity. The garden was, indeed, illuminated, but by a brighter light than one that I have ever seen. For the few seconds of illumination, the white light was so violently intense that it washed all colour out of it, and it was almost like looking at a film negative illuminated a hundredfold.

 

Half an hour later it was all over for us, and the storm moved off towards the Bristol Channel. However, somewhere between our house and the sea a couple of miles away, an unlikely lightning strike did irreparable damage to a British Telecom cable which means that the entire village was been out of broadband access for something over 24 hours. And this is why the last few days blog posts have been awry, and why you are getting the Sunday blogs today. Normal service should be resumed by Wednesday.

 

And now, here is the news:

 

HAWKWIND-LIVE IN MANCHESTER + INTERVIEW OF DAVE BR...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/hawkwind-live-in-manchester-interview.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: "Awen" ~ Poweful Druid...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-gonzo-track-of-day-awen-poweful.html

Gonzo Weekly #236

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/gonzo-weekly-236.html

PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #213

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/playlist-strange-fruit-213.html

 

Gonzo Magazine #235

THE OLD SCHOOL DANCE GOES ON FOREVER ISSUE

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We ponder the horrific events of last Monday, Jon waxes lyrical about Wreckless Eric, John goes to see Ryley Walker, Alan isbeing Green in Denmark, Graham talks about Hawkwind, and Corinna is as groovy as ever.

 

And listen up Kiddies: It’s all free!

 

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive,and Strange Fruit. 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:

 

Wreckless Eric, The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast, Ariana Grande, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Sir Roger George Moore, KBE, Granville William "Mickey" Roker, Kenneth Cordray, Jimmy LaFaye, Paul Blake "Frankie Paul", George Reiff, Kid Vinil, Mary Hopkin, This Misery Garden, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Jeremy Smith, The Doctors of Madness, Alan Dearling, Hyldemor/Hyldest, Skousen & Ingemann, Christiania, John Brodie-Good, Ryley Walker & Band, Kev Rowland, Oliver Lake & The Flux Quartet, Orange Clocks, Perspire, The Phans, Rog Patterson, Ronald Murphy, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, Elvis, Pete Doherty, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Neil Nixon, Dick Dale

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 234 (Jon Anderson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo235.html

Issue 234 (Al Atkins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo234.html

Issue 233 (Richard Strange)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo233.html

Issue 232 (Roy Weard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo232.html

Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo231.html

Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo230.html

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:

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SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock 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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* 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?