The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
Yesterday Mike Davis and I did a marathon session, which resulted in a new
song for him. Those of you who are interested can see/hear it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EzcNaT6ypg
The noisy guitar and programming is by me, by the way. A couple of months back
Mike came breezing into my studio with a new song. It was really simple, he said,
and would be a doddle to record. The song was and is great, but it wasn't
simple, and wasn't a doddle by any stretch of the imagination.
And by the way, if anyone else tries to talk to me about the new Doctor
Who. please don't.
But now, here is the news:
Founder and star of band Osibisa, Teddy Osei, on T...
Ringo Starr on Life as a Beatle
Igor Stravinsky Documentary
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: KARNATAKA - Fairytale ..
Gonzo Weekly #243
THE YO HO HO AND A BUCKET OF PROG ISSUE
...in which Jon interviews Stu Nicholson from Galahad, Richard goes to the New
Forest folk festival, and sees Ric Sanders, Show of Hands and the Acoustic
Strawbs, we ask whether modern music is rubbish, Alan ties Jon to a Listening
Post, and all with a Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of Prog.
Yup, and it’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, Canterbury Sans
Frontieres, 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
numbats with the right to choose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who
have become eligible to vote, 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:
Morrissey, Rolling Stones, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson,
Nile Rodgers, Chic, Brian May, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Tamara Grigoryevna
Miansarova, Raymond Chikapa Enock Phiri, Joseph Fire Crow, Luigi Ferdinando
Tagliavini, Melvyn "Deacon" Jones, Fresh Kid Ice, Egil Kapstad, Nelsan Ellis,
Mary Hopkin, Ashton Gardner and Dyke, Stu Nicholson, Galahad, Alan Dearling, Crass, Scott Walker, Cockney Rebel, Captain Beefheart, John Lennon, Yoko Ono,
Plastic Ono Band, Belle and Sebastian, The Polyphonic Spree, Gram Parsons, Roger
Waters, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Richard Foreman, New Forest Folk Festival, Kev
Rowland, Warner Drive, Wilderness Dream, Bloody Hammers, Phil Campbell & The
Bastard Sons, Dialeto, Dusan Jevtovic, Datura 4, Da Vinci, Gateway to Hell,
Intrcptr, Laces Out, Charlotte Phillipson, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul,
Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Prince, Slipknot, Neil Nixon, Dread Zeppelin.
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?
