The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday/Thursday
And so the visit from Olivia, Aaron and my granddaughter Evelyn is nearly
over. We have been looking forward to it for so long, and it is going by so
fast. Evelyn is a complete darling. However the dogs have neither been as
friendly or as tractable as we would have wished and - although I don't think
anything nasty would have happened - Archie got wildly excited and did his
annoying habit of rushing around barking and growling at the same time, and this
(quite naturally) scared the little girl. So the dogs and her have been
segregated in a sort of canine apartheid, and this seems to work out fine. When
she hears a bark, or sees them through the glass door she squeals with delight,
claps her hands, and shouts "doggie, Archeeee", but without any risk that closer
interaction might prove unfortunate. Never work with children or animals, eh? I
love both. It is adults of my own species that are often guaranteed to piss me
off.
But now, here is the news:
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YES IN THE NEWS
LEONARD COHEN IN THE NEWS
Howard Stern reflects on David Peel
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #244/5
THE SUMMERTIME SPECIAL DOUBLE BUMPER HOLIDAY ISSUE
Herewith the Gonzo Magazine summer bumper holiday special thing featuring
Jon and Neil talking about The Beatles, fifty years after their greatest year,
Jon interviewing Tim Bowness, John B-G watching It’s a Beautiful Day, Gregg from
Paradise 9 on a desert island, Alan on Pirate Radio, and lots of Female Dr Who
bilge, plus news, reviews, radio shows and self opinionated
columnists...
Yup, and it’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, C J Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and numbats with the
right to choose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have become
eligible to vote, 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:
Dr Who, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Loretta Lynn,
Adam Ant, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Martin Landau, George Andrew Romero, David Zablidowsky, Graham Wood, Roland
Cazimero, Chester Charles Bennington, Edwin Mahi?ai (Mahi) Copp Beamer, Mary
Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Tim Bowness, Neil Nixon, The
Beatles, Alan Dearling, Pirate Radio, Paul Harris, Phil Bayliss, Wickham
Festival, John Brodie-Good, Summer of Love, The Liberators, David Laflamme, It's
A Beautiful Day, Kev Rowland, Warner Drive, Wilderness Dream, Bloody Hammers, Da
Vinci, Gateway to Hell, Intrcptr, Laces Out, Phil Campbell & The Bastard
Sons, Dialeto, Dusan Jevtovic, Gregg McKella, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind,
Xtul, Milda Harris, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, John Lennon,Disney Camp Rock, One
Direction, Keir Dullea
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
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?
