Today is not working out to be the best of days. The car has broken down,
near Rewe on the old Exeter-Tiverton road whilst Graham is on his way to try
sorting out a particularly recalcitrant client of mine who owes me a grand and
rising. And on top of that; only three weeks after we took out a lease on the
new smart TV, with the fact that I can use it to stream a number of providers
(particularly Spotify) through my sitting room hifi being upmost in the factors
behind the decision, can you guess who has now withdrawn support for the
make?
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Badfinger - Baby Blue ...
BARBARA DICKSON IN THE NEWS
LEONARD COHEN IN THE NEWS
MARTIN STEPHENSON IN THE NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE ANORAKS IN THE UK ISSUE
Carol Hodge talks about the excitement of playing Glastonbury with Steve
Ignorant’s Slice of Life, we meet a bloke who wants to make a giant bronze
statue of Great Cthulhu in the Orkneys, Phil Bayliss’ reggae themed Listening
Post, the details of Hawkwind’s legal victory and the Doctors of Madness box
set.
Good ‘ere innit?
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, and Strange Fruit, 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:
Carol Hodge, Steve Ignorant, Roger Waters, Iggy Pop, Banksy, Lady Gaga,
Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Stella McCartney, British Sea Power, Kris
Kristofferson, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jimmy Nalls, Thomas
Michael Bond CBE, Geri Allen, Dave Rosser, Gary DeCarlo, Mary Hopkin, Steve
Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Alan Dearling, Phil Bayliss, Bob Marley &
The Wailers, Peter Tosh, Jacob Miller, U-Roy, King Tubby & Friends, Burning
Spear, Ijahman, Morgan Heritage, Fat Freddy's Drop, Jeremy Smith, Doctors of
Madness, Glen Vaudrey, Great Cthulhu, Kev Rowland, Tim Burness,
Tyrannosorceress, 8Kids, Art Fristoe Trio, Barrows, Beasto Blanco, Evelyn and
Iris, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, David Bowie, Sting, Bill Haley, Bob
Marley, Beatles, Jon Downes and the Amphibians From Outer Space
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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
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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 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?
