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I am in a surprisingly good mood today, as opposed to last week when I was feeling like a potential axe murderer. There is/was no particular reason for either. The downside to all this is that I have nothing to rant about. One of the chickens appears to be being bullied by her stronger sistren (yes, that is a word, and far more correct than she-brethren which is what I was going to use).

 

(To go off at an interesting tangent, both brethren and sistren were used in Middle English (12th to 15th centuries) simply as the plural forms of brother and sister. From about 1600, brothers began to take over from brethren (Shakespeare used both), except when referring to fellow members of a religious community, or a society or profession.)

 

So Graham is fixing up a section of the chicken coop complex (the part of the bottom aviary were the quail used to be) with a rabbit hutch for the beleagured chicken and the most tatty of the others. I never realised that poultry sociology was so complicated

 

Forgive me for banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot to me, and I would be grateful for an many people as possible to see it, and spread the tidings of it far and wide:

 

EP 83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lr_j2Ij8Q

EP 82 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iP_Pii7ZF8

 

But now, here is the news:

 

HERMAN'S HERMITS IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/hermans-hermits-in-news_25.html

YES feat ARW

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/yes-feat-arw.html

BARBARA DICKSON IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/barbara-dickson-in-news.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: AUBURN: Leaving Day

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-auburn-leaving.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_25.html

 

Gonzo Weekly #253

THE SENSORIUM SUPERSTARS ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

In which we meet the very legendary Dana Gillespie, Alan goes to the Hapi Festival, Richard presents part one of a short series on Steve Kimock, Greg remembers seeing Gentle Giant back in the day, Graham writes about Hawkwind,and we send Sensorium Girliebox to a desert island!And is there more? You can bet your pondohs there is. And it is all free/buckshee/gratis. There may not be such a thing as a free lunch, but there is a truly free magazine!

 

Wooooot!

 

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 common planigales who have cooked some stews (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have been culinarily creative, 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:

 

Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Biggles, Richard Gordon, Gerald Durrell, Yoko Ono, Bruce Springsteen, 2017 Progressive Music Awards, Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, Morrissey, Roger Waters, Bob Dylan, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, John Everett Sandlin Jr., Laudir Soares de Oliveira, Harold "Harry" Dean Stanton, Violet Brown (nee Mosse), Wiarton Willie, Ameer Isah Hassan (aka Lil Ameer), Ben Dorcy, Mary Hopkin, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton and Jon Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Dana Gillespie, Alan Dearling, Hapi Festival, Asylum Seekers, Daniel Wakeford, Big Brother Soul, Mike Pender's Searchers, The Fab Beatles, the Animals and friends, Forever Queen, Limehouse Lizzie, Fleetingwood Mac, From the Jam, Iron Tyger, Big Noise Samba Band, Greg Jarrells, Gentle Giant, Richard Foreman, Steve Kimock, Kev Rowland, Lightning Strikes, Afterbirth, Beastmaker, Ohio Knife, Opeth, Forever Still, Pelander, Midnight Oil, Sensorium Girliebox, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Nicki Minaj, ABBA, Neil Nixon, Easy Star All Stars

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 252 (Cropredy)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo251.html

Issue 251 (Scott Walker)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo251.html

Issue 250 (Jamms)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo250.html

Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo249.html

Issue 248 (The Selecter)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo248.html

Issue 247 (Don Airey)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo247.html

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/

 

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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 58 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?