The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
Last week, my friend, colleague and regularly Gonzo weekly contributor Mr
Biffo released his 17 minute epic movie The Trojan Arse Project, Project,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AegZz2NxjOc
which is the tumultuous climax to his massively entertaining, and highly
recommended, webTV show, Mr Biffo’s Found Footage. It wasn’t quite as good as
episode 4 (which had me in it), if only for one reason (it didn’t have me in it)
and millions mourned. But it was hugely entertaining, and amongst other things
put me in the mood to stretch my cinematic wings a little further than they had
ever been stretched before.
Some years ago, I invested the takings from a particularly successful Weird
Weekend in a large, professional green screen set up, so that I could use it on
CFZ videos. And, embarrassingly, apart from a stupid video featuring Graham as
David Cameron, and a pair of dancing badgers, I have never used it. But this
week, all that changed!
I am really getting quite ambitious with our monthly webTV show. And, this
week, I finally ended up using the green screen in an elaborate sequence which
we filmed last Wednesday afternoon, and which will be the opening sequence to
the November episode of On The Track.
We are making a conscious effort to make the production values on this new
series as good as we possibly can, partly so we can be seen as real contenders
in the global media marketplace, and partly for our own satisfaction.
Sadly, my beautiful garden looks like something like the aftermath of the
battle of the Somme as a result of heavy rain, scratting chickens, falling
leaves, and the large dog that looks like a pigmy hippo galumphing around the
place, but as you can see from these pictures, it makes a perfect film set for
my cinematographic ambitions.
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:
But now, here is the news:
COMING THIS WEEKEND
DAVE BROCK IN THE NEWS
RICK SPRINGFIELD IN THE NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: KATE WESTBROOK GOODBY...
Gonzo Weekly #255-6
THE A IS FOR APPLE ISSUE
We meet the legendary Judge Smith and talk about his new film, The Garden
of Fifi Chamoix, and still in a horticultural mood Alan visits an Apples and Art
exhibit which sounds cracking fun. Richard presents the second part of his
critique of Steve Kimock, Jon muses about Cat Stevens and Liam Gallagher, and
Biffo causes ructions in the Lord of the Rings gaming community.
Wooooot!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Canterbury sans Frontieres and
Friday Night Progressive. Strange Fruit, is taking a week off, but will be back
soon. 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 southern dibblers who
have books to peruse (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have been to
the library, 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:
Liam Gallagher, Yusuf Islam, Nile Rodgers, 200Fish, Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, The Love Theatre, Rolling Stones, Queen, Small Faces, Bono, Prince,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jerry Jan Ross, Skip Haynes, Walter "Bunny" Sigler, Jan
Arvid Johansen, Jimmy Beaumont, Grady Bernard Tate, Dave Bry, Iain Shedden, Sean
Hughes, Roy Dotrice, OBE, Grape-kun, Gordon Edgar Downie CM, Mary Hopkin, Man,
Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton and Jon Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band,
Benjamin Britten, Judge Smith, Alan Dearling, Dave Watson, Morag Eaton, Graham
Bell, Richard Foreman, Steve Kimock, Kev Rowland, Alunah, Atomic Rooster, Rick
Wakeman, Made in Cuba, Steve Howe, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Sammy Davis
Jr, Bob Marley, Elvis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Michael Jackson, Neil Nixon, Preston
Epps
Issue 254 (Mr Biffo)
Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
Issue 250 (Jamms)
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!
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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
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it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
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* 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?
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 
The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
Gonzo Weekly #258
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