The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
I have never got Twitter, but after years of being scathing about it, I
think that I have finally begun to realise what it is all about. Yesterday was
my birthday and I have reached the venerable age of 58. Dear Thom Woodruff (aka
Thom the World Poet) was kind enough to write this for me:
I was (and am) very touched. Thank you Thom. But back to Twitter. Last
night, as you probably know Messrs Drummond and Cauty aka The Justified Ancients
of Mu Mu returned to out plain of existence. This all happened in Liverpool, but
I watched the updates on Twitter, and got carried along by the excitement of the
event. And finally - after having had an account for eight ears, and never
having used it for anything but to automatically repost links to blog posts - I
GET TWITTER!
Now, usually when I experience an epiphany, I end up getting mildly
obsessed. I wonder whether this will happen on this occasion?
And as far as the JAMMs are concerned, I get the feeling that something
truly extraordinary is happening up on Merseyside, and that those of us why are
following what is happening are helping to assist its reverberations across
IdeaSpace. I urge you to read John Higgs' book so that you can get what I mean.
This might just be what we have all beenj hoping for. On the other hand it might
not. And for the record, Corinna is just laughing at me as I get ever more
enthusiastic.
On a personal level I would be very grateful if you could spread the word
about our rebooted monthly webTV series after a brak of nearly four years. I
actually hadn't realised it had been so long, but - then again - my concepts of
time and space are fairly abstract at the best of times.
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Justified Ancients...
BRUFORD'S BOX SET
IAIN MATTHEWS NEWS
YES IN THE NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #248
THE BY THE TIME WE GOT TO WICKHAM ISSUE
In which Alan goes to the Wickham Festie and raves about The Levellers, The
Selecter, Edward II, The Dhol Foundation and more. We remember Oz Magazine, look
forward to next week’s revisitation by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, look at
what
might well have happened if Syd Barrett had been completely cured, and
spend a weekend with Lennon and McCartney.
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 antichinuses in
primordial ooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have become time
travellers and got stuck in a prehistoric swamp, 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, Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Keith Christmas,
YES, ARW, Tears for Fears, Prince, Roger Waters, Sinead O'Connor, Neil Young,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jo
Walker-Meador, Kasatka, Benard Ighner, Segun Bucknor, Rick Wakeman, Ashton,
Gardner and Dyke, Third Ear Band, Atomic Rooster, Oz, Richard Neville, Alan
Dearling, Wickham festival, Andy Fairweather-Low, Lowriders Band, Levellers,
Spooky Men’s Chorale, The Selector, Seth Lakeman, Phillip Henry and Hannah
Martin, The Dhol Foundation, Pronghorn, Edward II, Maia, Alan Finlan, Kev
Rowland, Karibow, Left Lane Cruiser, Lost World Band, The Midnight Ghost Train,
Noothgrush/Corrupted, Pageninetynine, Riverdogs, Seven Spires, Lutz Ulbrich, Mr
Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis, Beatles, Tupac,
Michael Jackson, Lemmy, Edward S Dumit
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
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!
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raining. See you tomorrow...
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it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
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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?
