I spend much of my life hiding in a small nest behind the compost heap, so
this probably why I had never heard of The Black Mirror until John Higgs
referenced it in something I was watching on YouTube on Friday. It sounded
intriguing so I checked it out on Netflix and was almost immediately hooked. For
those who are not in the know it is an updated 'Tales of the Unexpected' cum
'Twilight Zone' for the internet age. Massively stylish and displaying mordant
horror and dark wit in spadefulls, it is easily the best new thing I have
watched in yonks. I watched all Season One in bed on Saturday night, and all
Season Two with Julia last night. Unconditionally recommended, although I
suspect that I am in the vast minority for not having heard about it when it
first came out.
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot
to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and
spread the tidings of it far and wide:
But now, here is the news:
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #259
THE ALL HALLOWS ISSUE
In this week’s post-Samhain issue, Alan has a punk Hallowe’en in Gosport,
Neil looks at freaky psychedelic obscurities, John sees the Doobie Brothers in
Dublin, and Jon, once again, finds himself musing on the Justified Ancients of
Mu Mu, and following the 400 on Twitter.
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Harvest 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 long nosed
potoroos who have done lots of poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who
have been at the laxatives, 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:
he Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Salvation Army, John Lennon, Strawberry
Field, Nile Rodgers, Todmobile, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Pete Levin,
Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart, Keith Wilder, Richard "Dick" Noel, Mike Hudson,
Muhal Richard Abrams, Katie Lee, Billy Mize, Mary Hopkin, Man, Arthur Brown,
Tony Ashton and Jon Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten,
Neil Arnold, Salem Mass, Rings & Things, Icarus, Alan Dearling, Blink Daze,
Asylum Seekers, Acid Attack, John Brodie-Good, The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat,
Kev Rowland, Catherine Howe, The Convalescence, Damanek, Debbie Ray, Meat Train,
The Pod, Alex Hawkins, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, The Beatles, Elvis, Michael
Jackson, KLF, Joe Walsh, Terence Stamp, Neil Nixon, The Erotics
Issue 258 (The Devil's Jukebox)
Issue 257 (Judge Smith)
Issue 255/6 (John Lennon)
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!
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.
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to
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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?
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