The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
There have been a whole spate of deaths, the latest being Charlie Manson
and David Cassidy. The latter has provoked some grieving from the girls who were
eleven in 1972, and the former a spate of vitriol that is not unexpected and not
undeserved. I wasn't, however, expecting the reaction to be so polarised. My
Twitter feed and e-mails are full of emails screaming abuse at his memory, but
there are more than a few - disturbingly - grieving at his passing as if he was
a counterculture Mother Teresa. For the record, I personally think that he was
quite correctly banged up for life although I am not sure that the "Helter
Skelter" defence wasn't a complicated conspiracy concocted to nail him for
crimes, whose true motive was far less cerebral. But on one fact he was
certainly correct. We could indeed feed the world with "our garbage dump".
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot
to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and
spread the tidings of it far and wide:
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But for now, here is the news:
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FOR THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN MY DAY JOB
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #261
THE LAMENTING LEN ISSUE
Marking the anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s death, we take a look at the
outpouring of grief the tributes manifest, Alan looks at Matthew Smith’s Exist
to Resist, Richard presents part three of the Steve Kimock story, and Jon looks
at Black Mirror and Netflix.
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Harvest, Friday Night
Progressive and Canterbury Sans Frontieres. We also have columns from all sorts
of folk including Neil Nixon, Roy Weard, C J Stone, Mr Biffo and the
irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and long nosed potoroos who have done lots of poos (OK, nothing to do
with small marsupials who have been at the laxatives, 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:
Black Mirror, Beatles, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Prince, Alan White,
Elton John, Walter Becker, REM, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Charles Henry Mosley III, Frederick Lee Cole, Chad
Hanks, Little Mama, Keith Barron, Michael ‘DikMik’ Davies, Lillith and Nilly,
Barbara Dickson, Jessica Lee Morgan, Rick Wakeman, Billion Dollar Babies,
Tangerine Dream, Peter Perrett, Jeremy Smith, Alan Dearling, Exist to Resist,
Matthew Smith, Leonard Cohen, Richard Foreman, Steve Kimock, Kev Rowland, Thy
Art is Murder, Travelin Jack, Trem do Futuro, The Two Tens, Ultranova, Venom
Inc., Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, David Bowie, Gerald
Scarfe, Pink Floyd, Chopin, Queen, Elvis, Freddie Mercury, Jim Morrison
Marking the anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s death, we take a look at the
outpouring of grief the tributes manifest, Alan looks at Matthew Smith’s Exist
to Resist, Richard presents part three of the Steve Kimock story, and Jon looks
at Black Mirror and Netflix.
Issue 260 (Amsterdam Squat Festie)
Issue 259 (Out come thee Freaks)
Issue 258 (The Devil's Jukebox)
Issue 257 (Judge Smith)
Issue 255/6 (John Lennon)
Issue 254 (Mr Biffo)
Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
Issue 250 (Jamms)
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
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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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
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* 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 58 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?
