The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
Yesterday I interviewed Stu Nicholson from Galahad for a forthcoming issue
of the magazine. What a nice guy he is! And by the way, the new album is a
corker. What I like about this band is the way they keep on reinventing
themselves, and playing games with sound, form and substance. The new record,
for example, is a baroque little thing without any guitars peeping even slightly
over the horizon: but still it sounds just like Galahad. In other news, Graham
has borrowed Julia's car to go to Exeter today, and all sorts of buggerups have
ensued. You truly do not want to know about the comedy of errors that took
place. Comne to think of it, I have no idea why they call it a 'Comedy of
Errors' because it is not even slightly funny. However, we are having a very
welcome pair of visitors in the next few minutes; a pleasant oasis in a desert
of crapulence.
But now, here is the news:
YES IN THE NEWS
GRUMPY OLD RICK VS THE COPS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: JACKIE LEE sings RUPER...
CORKY LAING IN THE NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #242
THE MIDNIGHT TOKER ISSUE
John B-G travels across the Atlantic to see the Steve Miller Band|and Peter
Frampton, Jon muses on The Beatles again, Alan visits Ben Chasny, Jeremy
critiques Peter Perrett’s long awaited album and Richard visits psychedelic
Cambodia.
Yup, and it’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, C J Stone, 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, Steve Earle, Scott Walker, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Spike
Lee, Stew, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
John Blackwell Jr., Rudy Rotta, Barry Leslie Norman, CBE, Kelan Phil Cohran,
Joan Clayton Boocock Lee, Pierre Henry, Carol Lee Scott, Mary Hopkin, Steve
Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Jeremy Smith, Peter Perrett, Alan Dearling, Ben
Chasny, Ben Flashman, Ethan Miller, Comets on Fire, Howlin' Rain, John
Brodie-Good, Peter Frampton, Steve Miller, Richard Foreman, Cambodia, Kev
Rowland, Elegant Simplicity, Five Horse Johnson, Goblin, Shadow of Doubt, Jorn,
Domingo Candelario, Glen Vaudrey, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hoaxwind, Xtul, John
Higgs, Biggie Smalls, Mic Conway's Whoopee Band, Beyonce, Kurt Cobain, Cream,
Grateful Dead, The Dragons
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
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!
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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?
