The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
And so another week trundles inexorably towards its close. And what can I
say about it? Nothing much I am afraid. I achieved quite a lot of stuff that I
wanted to do, and was in a haze for much of Tuesday and Wednesday because of a
visit from Our Lady Selene. I am still getting my head around Twitter, and
finding that I am appreciating this ubiquitous little social medium more and
more each day. Yesterday I found photographs of a family of wild white eared
pheasants: a species which I had always been told was almost extinct, but it
seems that in the 40+ years since I read about them in Gerald Durrell's 'Catch
me a Colobus' either they have recovered remarkably or our Gerry was indulging
in hyperbole, 'cos they are currently judged as 'Near Threatened' with a wild
population of between 10-50,000 individuals.
Lovely birds though.
Forgive me for rattling on about pheasants. but it is Friday, and the
weekend beckons.
By the way, please also forgive me for banging on about this but on a
personal level I would be very grateful if you could spread the word about our
rebooted monthly webTV series after a break of nearly four years. 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.
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Paul Hindemith - Strin...
Robert Calvert - Ramblings at Dawn, 1982 Interview...
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Bruford - The Sahara of Snow parts 1 + 2
Gonzo Weekly #250
THE RITES OF MUMUMIFICATION ISSUE
The events organised by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu in Liverpool last
week: The cultural event of the decade? Or something properly important? Jon
interviews Tony Palmer about his legendary film of Tangerine Dream, Alan goes to
the Magic Gathering in Lithuania, Richard muses on handshakes, and Biffo talks
about sexist Yugoslav computer magazines - no we haven’t made that one up! In
fact we never make any of it up.
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Strange Fruit, but Friday
Night Progressive is taking a week off. 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
antichinuses who have blown a figurative fuse (OK, nothing to do with small
marsupials who have got cross for some reason, 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, Captain Beefheart, Pink Floyd, Coldplay,
Chester Bennington, David Bowie, ZZ Top, Katie Hopkins, Strange Fruit, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Melissa Cecelia Ewen Bell, William Tobe Hooper, Wilson
das Neves, Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop, Mohammed Abdul Jabbar, L N Shastri,
Lawrence Joseph Elgart, Mary Hopkin, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton and Jon
Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Tony Palmer, Tangerine
Dream, Alan Dearling, Magick Gathering, Timid Kooky, Medonas, Ignas is
Ignalinos, Josh Johnstone & The Bonnie Doons, Thundering Down, Celsijus, The
Holy Modal Rounders, Du-Tels, The Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson,
Peggy Seeger, Kev Rowland, All 4 1, Asphalt Horsemen, Attila, Beneath, Big Big
Train, Blind Guardian, Decapitated, Disengage, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind,
Xtul, Beatles, The Who, U2, Billy Currie, Ultravox, Michael Jackson, Queen, Neil
Nixon, Durutti Column
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
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
power chaps, we have to share it!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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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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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 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?
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