The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
Wednesday morning is the day that I get up early in order to liaise with my
amanuenses, the lovely Olivia. By early I mean several hours after most right
thinking people have emerged from their pit, drunk their breakfast coffee and
done whatever else there is that right thinking people do each morning. I,
however, have never been guilty of being a right thinking anything, and so have
no idea what Mr and Mrs Average do on a Wednesday morning. However, this
morning, like every other Wednesday I should have got up bright and early. The
fact is I did get up bright and early, but under the most difficult of
circumstances. The other week one of my ridiculous dogs chewed up the dispenser
in which Corinna lays out my medication each week, with the result that I had to
buy a new one in Asda, and I haven’t got used to it yet. This means that last
night I took my morning medicine instead of my evening medicine and had the
Devil’s own time trying to get to sleep. And when I did get to sleep, my dreams
were fairly surreal and tinged with episodes from ‘Beyond the Pinkerton Road’ by
Mark Fisher; a peculiar book that I am currently reading and enjoying massively.
I have charged Miss Olivia with poking me with a sharp stick if I lose
focus of what I’m supposed to be doing. Luckily she is in Norfolk and I am in
Devonshire, and I doubt whether she will find a sharp stick quite that long. We
shall see!
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: H. Purcell - The Fairy...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Al Atkins Interview | Judas Priest
NICO interview
ANNIE HASLAM IN THE NEWS
Gonzo Magazine Issue #240
THE SUMER IS ACUMEN IN ISSUE
We mark the Summer Solstice, with an issue including Alfredo Zitarossa and
The Beatles, and an exclusive excerpt from Tony Klinger’s new book. Alan reviews
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon, Biffo looks at Video Games
featuring Pop Stars, and Jeremy goes to see King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Good ‘ere innit?
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and the final
episode of Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins, but Friday Night Progressive is on
hiatus for a few weeks. 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:
Alfredo Zitarrosa, Queen, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Yoko Ono,
Coldplay, Eno, Neil Hannon, The Divine Comedy, Barry Gibb, Radiohead, Sigur Rós,
Strange Fruit, Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Albert Johnson "Prodigy", Brian Cant, Stephen Furst, Sheila Raye Charles, Byron
Christopher Murrell, Belton Richard, Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton Gardner and
Dyke, Tony Klinger, Alan Dearling, Joanna Cannon, King Gizzard and the Lizard
Wizard, Kev Rowland, Elephant Plaza, Wednesday 13, Witch Vomit, Flyinglow, The
Ferrymen, Jim Jackson, Mr Biffo, Paradise9, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin
Springett, The Beatles, Elvis, Motley Crew, Biz Markie, Johnny Rotten, Sid
Vicious, Bob Marley, Neil Nixon, The Dope King’s Last Stand
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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)
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If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo
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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?
