The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
Yesterday evening I received an instant message from Paul Vella's brother
Dermot: "It was just to let you know that Paul passed away on Saturday the 15th
[...] basically as a result of the health issues he had over the last year or
so. He passed away peacefully seemingly without any pain. I'm just trying to
contact as many of his friends as best I can to let them know. If you can think
of anyone else that would like to know I would appreciate it if you passed it
on."
As you probably all know, Paul was for many years in charge of the CFZ BHM
Study Group, and will be missed by his many friends.
According to Loren Coleman he was 42, but I thought he was a little older
than that I thought he was about ten years younger than me, and I am 58. He kept
his personal life and his cryptozoological life very separate. I knew him for
years, he stayed at my jouse several times, and even camped in my garden but as
far as his personal circumstances are concerned I realise that I hardly knew him
at all. And that is an incredibly upsetting thing to admit. Our thoughts and
prayers are with his family.
But now, here is the news:
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Yardbirds - Over Under...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Café Chats: Archie Fisher MBE Interview
YES IN THE NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #244/5
THE SUMMERTIME SPECIAL DOUBLE BUMPER HOLIDAY ISSUE
Herewith the Gonzo Magazine summer bumper holiday special thing featuring
Jon and Neil talking about The Beatles, fifty years after their greatest year,
Jon interviewing Tim Bowness, John B-G watching It’s a Beautiful Day, Gregg from
Paradise 9 on a desert island, Alan on Pirate Radio, and lots of Female Dr Who
bilge, plus news, reviews, radio shows and self opinionated
columnists...
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 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:
Dr Who, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Loretta Lynn,
Adam Ant, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Martin Landau, George Andrew Romero, David Zablidowsky, Graham Wood, Roland
Cazimero, Chester Charles Bennington, Edwin Mahi?ai (Mahi) Copp Beamer, Mary
Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Tim Bowness, Neil Nixon, The
Beatles, Alan Dearling, Pirate Radio, Paul Harris, Phil Bayliss, Wickham
Festival, John Brodie-Good, Summer of Love, The Liberators, David Laflamme, It's
A Beautiful Day, Kev Rowland, Warner Drive, Wilderness Dream, Bloody Hammers, Da
Vinci, Gateway to Hell, Intrcptr, Laces Out, Phil Campbell & The Bastard
Sons, Dialeto, Dusan Jevtovic, Gregg McKella, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind,
Xtul, Milda Harris, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, John Lennon,Disney Camp Rock, One
Direction, Keir Dullea
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
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!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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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?
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