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The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday

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And so, dear fellows, another week has come and gone. On a personal level the big news is the release of episode one (or 76, depending which way you are counting) of our rebooted monthly webTV series after a break of nearly four years.

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/and-in-my-day-job.html

I actually hadn't realised it had been so long, but - then again - my concepts of time and space are fairly abstract at the best of times. The worst news of the week is - of course - the terrorist atrocities in Spain yesterday. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims.

And finally, thank you to Corinna for sending me this news item: A childhood friend of Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett is developing a hospital garden in his honour. Syd's Garden will be "laced with little clues" about the singer, according to Stephen Pyle who was a schoolfriend of his, and played alongside him in a band called Those Without, which toured Cambridge youth clubs and pubs between 1963 and 1965. Designed as a restful area for patients and staff, it will open in the grounds of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge in 2018.

But now, here is the news:

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Tony Ashton & Jon Lor...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-tony-ashton-jon.html

Album review: EXTREMES – CD/DVD (Supertramp, Arc)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/album-review-extremes-cddvd-supertramp.html

YES IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/yes-in-news_18.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_18.html

FAIRPORT CONVENTION NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/fairport-convention-news.html

Gonzo Weekly #247

THE CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN ISSUE

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In which we meet the legendary Don Airey, who tinkles the ivories for Deep Purple (amongst others) and talks about his mountainous solo album, John talks about Cary Grace, the Luck of Eden Hall, Steely Dan and Pye Hastings, Alan gives an Observer’s Guide to Lithuanian Pop Music, Jon critiques the best novel he has read all year and presents the latest news from The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.

Yup, and it’s all free!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, Canterbury sans Frontieres 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:

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, RAZ Band, Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters, Ronnie Wood, Patti Smith, Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack  Maloney's Mystery Hour, Chantek, Jessy Serrata, Glen Travis Campbell, Janet Seidel, Arleta, Rick Wakeman, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Third Ear Band, Atomic Rooster, Deep Purple, Don Airey, Alan Dearling, Laura Remeikiene, Neda Malunaviciute, Rugile, Boris and the Gopnik tour of Vilnius, John Brodie Good, Cary Grace, The Luck of Eden Hall, Caravan, Pye Hastings, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen and The Nightflyers, Kev Rowland, ESP, Eternal Wanderers, Gentle Knife, Horseneck, Immolation, Integrity, Jam It!, Neil Arnold, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Nathan Kuzak, Lemmy, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo246.html

Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo244-5.html

Issue 243 (Galahad)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo243.html

Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo242.html

Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo241.html

Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo240.html

Issue 239 (Miss Peach)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo239.html

Issue 238 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo238.html

Issue 237 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo237.html

Issue 236 (Manchester)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo236.html

Issue 235 (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

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/

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.

* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as 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?