The Gonzo Daily: Tuesday/Wednesday
Wot? This blog post is early, I can hear you say. Or, at least, I could
have heard you say it if I had been listening keenly enough. Yes, it is. Because
tomorrow has a lot of things happening, including launching OTT and rescuing
some chickens, I am taking the unprecedented (almost) step of jumping the
gun.
Today was fun. Kev Rowland came all the way from New Zealand to eat
Corinna's cake and talk about obscure prog rock this afternoon, and although the
dogs behaved like President Trump at a Kim Family barbecue, everything went
swimmingly, and a splendid time was had by all.
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Steve Ignorant's Slic...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
YES FEATURING ARW ON TOUR
KEITH CHRISTMAS IN THE NEWS
HERMAN'S HERMITS IN THE NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #247
THE CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN ISSUE
In which we meet the legendary Don Airey, who tinkles the ivories for Deep
Purple (amongst others) and talks about his mountainous solo album, John talks
about Cary Grace, the Luck of Eden Hall, Steely Dan and Pye Hastings, Alan gives
an Observer’s Guide to Lithuanian Pop Music, Jon critiques the best novel he has
read all year and presents the latest news from The Justified Ancients of Mu
Mu.
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:
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, RAZ Band, Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters,
Ronnie Wood, Patti Smith, Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Chantek,
Jessy Serrata, Glen Travis Campbell, Janet Seidel, Arleta, Rick Wakeman, Ashton,
Gardner and Dyke, Third Ear Band, Atomic Rooster, Deep Purple, Don Airey, Alan
Dearling, Laura Remeikiene, Neda Malunaviciute, Rugile, Boris and the Gopnik
tour of Vilnius, John Brodie Good, Cary Grace, The Luck of Eden Hall, Caravan,
Pye Hastings, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen and The Nightflyers, Kev Rowland, ESP,
Eternal Wanderers, Gentle Knife, Horseneck, Immolation, Integrity, Jam It!, Neil
Arnold, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Nathan Kuzak, Lemmy, James Brown,
Michael Jackson, Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
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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journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
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write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and
want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at
gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as
widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as
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?
