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The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday

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I am feeling surprisingly cheerful today. And for no particular reason. I have just heard from Judge Smith who has decided -it seems - to return to live performance with a new band. On top of this Spirits Burning made a rare UK live performance recently and I shall be talking to both Judge and Don Falcone very soon and the results will be in the magazine, as you might expect.

 

By the way, 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.

 

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

 

But now, here is the news:

 

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Clepsydra - Travel of ...

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

RICK WAKEMAN IN NEW MICK RONSON DOCUMENTARY

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/rick-wakeman-in-new-mick-ronson.html

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/captain-beefheart-news.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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

COMING THIS WEEKEND

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/coming-this-weekend.html

 

Gonzo Weekly #249

THE ON THE RAZ WITH BILL ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

We unpack Bill Bruford’s box and investigate the contents, we visit The Raz Band featuring Joe Vitale and Joey Molland in the studio, Alan introduces us to Gypsy Dave Smith, Alan Finlan and Startled Monkeys, we drop the legendary UFO author Nick Redfern on a desert isle, and review this week’s return of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

 

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 antichinuses attracting a chorus of boos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have become unpopular 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:

 

Leonard Cohen, Morrissey, Robert Plant, Cyreez Lewis, Skunk Anansie, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Iman, Prince, Carine Roitfeld, Billy Joel, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, John Laird Abercrombie, Jerry Lewis, Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess, Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE, Brian Wilson Aldiss OBE, Rick Wakeman, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Third Ear Band, Atomic Rooster, Bill Bruford, The RAZ Band, Alan Dearling, Gypsy Dave, Alan Finlan and Startled Monkeys, Kev Rowland, All Out War, BLK Ops/Cave Bastard, Child Bite, Syk, Chris Pasin and Friends, Warbeast, Empire, Aenaon, Nick Redfern, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, Mal Evans, Janis Joplin, Daniel O'Donnell, Robertson’s, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Wilson Pickett, Duran Duran, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 248 (The Selecter)

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

 

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 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?