The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
I was woken early by dear Richard Freeman who had just arrived in London
after flying back from Tasmania. Apparently the fourth CFZ Thylacine expedition
was the most successful yet, although he didn't have one of them with him,
hissing and spitting in a makeshift cage on Paddington Station. Then, three
hours later, we had a visit from Jeremy Smith late of the Strange Fruit Radio
Show with Neil Nixon. A pleasant couple of hours talking about obscure rock
music followed, and then at three Professor Jon's Academy for Young Ladies
opened its campus doors and the student body came flooding in. OK I am indulging
in hyperbole. The entire student body is in fact a fourteen year old young lady
called Charlotte here for an English lesson and pizza.
Quite a day really. No wonder I am tired.
Hey ho.
And here is the news:
Al Atkins Spanish review translated
SPIRITS BURNING Canadian review
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jah Wobble and Keith L...
André Previn: How Lucky I Am Now
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #218
THE ART FOR ART'S SAKE ISSUE
Mark Reiser, veteran space rock artist died last year, and the Real Music
Club have put together a tribute album for him. Alan meets Australian artist
Mookx, Jon burbles about The Beatles and reviews a book about Frank Zappa, John
critiques the new Pink Fairies album, Doug goes to see Midge Ure, and Kev
continues his eclectic reviews. Biffo, however, is scathing about Star Trek
merchandise. And listen up kiddies.....
It’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive as well as Jeremy Smith's new project The Seven Deadly Sins.
We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil
Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos (OK, nothing to do with
small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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 Beatles, Shirley Evans, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Nicks,
George Michael, Flaming Lips, Sid Vicious, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Yanni Alexis Mardas, Lance d'Boyle (Gary Lance Robins), Colo, Eugene Andrew
"Gene" Cernan, Franz Jarnach, Thandi Klassen, Greg Trooper, Antony Charles
Robert Armstrong-Jones, Richie Ingui, William Onyeabor, Rachael Heyhoe Flint,
Loalwa Braz, Steve Wright, Absolute Elsewhere feat Bill Bruford, Al Atkins,
Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Atomic Rooster, Lord Buckley, Tony Ashton & Jon
Lord, Adrian Legg, Mark Reiser, Pink Fairies, Midge Ure, Alan Dearling, Mookx
(aka Brendan Hanley), John Brodie-Good, Kev Rowland, Miss Peach and the
Travellin' Bones, La Torre Dell Alchmista, Taylor's Universe, Bauda, Roy Weard,
Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Mr Biffo, Frank Zappa, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Hard Rock
Cafe, Elton John, Bo Diddley,
Nat King Cole
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 217 (Dig Doug Harr)
Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)
Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)
Issue 212 (Greg Lake)
Issue 211 (Phil Collins)
Issue 210 (Nico)
Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)
Issue 207 (Tibet)
Issue 206 (Raz)
Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 204 (Gas Tank)
Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)
Issue 202 (Gong)
Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
Issue 199 (Yes)
Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
old hippy of 57 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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
