The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
As most of you will know, for the past seventeen years I promoted the CFZ
annual Weird Weekend conference. There are a lot of highs and lows in conference
organisation, and one of the most irritating is when a speaker pulls out at the
last minute. Every year, I had at least one speaker do this to me, with excuses
ranging from the impressive to the facile. And now - I am embarrassed to say - I
am doing exactly the same thing.
I was booked to appear at the ASSAP conference in Bristol on the 28th. For
various logistical reasons it was changed to the 21st, and either I wasn’t told
or - more likely - I was told and it didn’t register, and this weekend I don’t
have a car or a driver. The idea of negotiating a complicated train journey with
my wheelchair is more than I can deal with, so I have been forced to cancel my
appearance. I do apologise to everybody involved and I hope that the event goes
off with a bang in my absence.
And now, here is the news:
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Gonzo Magazine #234
THE OUT AND ABOUT ISSUE
The legendary Al Atkins talks about his new album and his involvement with
the Metal for Charity project, Alan D is chasing a festival site in Lithuania,
we have news from the Real Music Club, the latest from Hawkwind, and Jon mixing
fact and fantasy in the White House.
It’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive,
Canterbury Sans Frontieres and Strange Fruit. 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:
Veep, John Ellis, Pink Floyd, Jeffrey Roberts, Craig Gill, Loretta Lynn, P
J Harvey, Pink, Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Ustad Rais
Khan, David Pell, Roberto Concina (Robert Miles), Albert Geoffrey Bayldon, Clive
Colin Brooks, Michael Parks (born Harry Samuel Parks), Curt Lowens, Mary Hopkin,
This Misery Garden, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Ashton, Gardner and
Dyke, Al Atkins, ANA - Metal For Charity, Alan Dearling, Lithuaniam Festivals,
Real Music Club, Brother Twain, Gail Storm Edmunds, Jack Pout, Kev Rowland,
X.Kernel, Witchbound, Yuval Ron & Residents of the Future, Witherfall,
Wingfield Reuter, Bart Lancia, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin
Springett, Milda Harris, Elvis, 1D, Average White Band, Jimi Hendrix, Cher,
Leona Williams, Led Zeppelin, Neil Nixon, Cut Chemist
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
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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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
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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 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?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 
