The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
For those of us who see British party politics as one of the most
entertaining spectator sports on the planet, last night was perhaps the most
exciting election since 1974. Corbyn did very well, May did very badly, UKIP
disappeared and it is hard not to agree with the head of the SCP, who said that
last night’s result makes all talk of a second independence referendum highly
unlikely. However, in the end, because of the DUP, it might not have made a jot
of difference. As Pete Townsend wrote many years ago;
“Meet the new boss,
the same as the old boss!”
Ummmmmmmmmm… Exactly the same as the old boss! As I write, Mrs May is
putting on her best bib and tucker and preparing to go and kiss hands at the
palace.
And, of course, Graham and I did our now regular piece of stupidity;
exercising our democratic right to dick about on polling day.
And now, here is the news:
COMING THIS WEEKEND
WAYHAY! BRAND X NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Who - Won't Get Fo...
FRANK ZAPPA IN THE NEWS
Gonzo Magazine #237
THE INTO THE WOODS ISSUE
We go all Rashomon on you and publish two different reviews of Hawkwind’s
triumphant return to The Roundhouse, Alan mans the Listening Post and Corinna
hunts Lycanthropes in Cornwall. Jon muses about Lightning, the Bay City Rollers
and critiques the long awaited Roger Waters album, and Davey Curtis goes to see
Dutch freakmusos My Baby!
And listen up Kiddies: It’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, and Strange Fruit, but Friday
Night Progressive is having a week off. 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:
Elton John, Ringo Starr, Liam Gallagher, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Julian
Dorio, Roger Waters, Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart, Brian May, Strange Fruit, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, John Noakes, Gregory LeNoir "Gregg" Allman, David Sidney
George Lewiston, Martin Intalex, Mrs Raines, Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton,
Gardner and Dyke, John Brodie-Good, Hawkwind, Graham Inglis, Alan Dearling,
Snarky Puppy, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Pigs Pigs
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Mike Vest and Bong, Blown Out, Spokes, Davey Curtis,
My Baby, Kev Rowland, Ronny Whyte, The Room, Rozvitaus, Sectunefor, Richard
Foreman, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Martin Springett, Bay City Rollers, The Monkees,
Fall Out Boy, Lady Gaga, Alice Cooper, Sid Vicious, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Jimi
Henrix, Neil Nixon, Bette Davis, Roger Waters
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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)
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
power chaps, we have to share it!
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responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
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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?
