The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
And so, what is euphemistically known as 'The Festive Season' is trundling
inexorably towards us like a bad tempered water buffalo on quetiapine. The
Christmas double issue of Gonzo Weekly comes out tonight, following which the
next issue of the magazine will be another double issue on the 6th of January,
after which we return to some semblance of normality. However, the week after, I
am scheduled to be doing two days filming with – of all people – one of
Britain’s leading computer game manufacturers, so I am not promising that we
will return completely to normal, even by then. Although it is not a time of the
year of which I am fond, I do like to take the opportunity to spend some time
with my loved ones (as well my friends Mr Smirnoff and Mr J. Daniels and Mr
Tesco Brandy-Flavoured-Gutrot), and so neither the Gonzo Weekly office or the
CFZ office will be fully functioning for the remainder of the year, but I will
be in most days for an hour or two and can be contacted should anything urgent
arise.
Episode 86 of OTT will be out next week, and I have every expectation that
the next issue of A&M will be out before the end of the year.
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:
And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:
But for now, here is the news:
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COMING THIS WEEKEND
Marlene Dietrich full interview
DON PRESTON NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #264
THE INNER MOUNTING ISSUE
As we approach Christmas, guitar legend John McLaughlin does something
truly special, Mr Dearling goes to Parliament and sees an art exhibition in a
railway station, Jon muses on Judge Smith's new film, we send Robert Schneck to
a desert island, Jeremy reviews Larry Wallis and John listens to Quicksilver
Messenger Service!
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney AND Strange Fruit, AND Friday
Night Progressive AND (because it was a full moon last week) 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 southern dibblers who
have blown a fuse (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are not good at
household electrics, 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:
Judge Smith, Adam Horovitz, Israel Horovitz, Paul McCartney, Elton John,
Downes Braid Association, Yoko Ono, Jarvis Cocker, Neil Young, The Beatles, Yes,
Cruise to the Edge, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's
Mystery Hour, Jean-Philippe Leo Smet (Johnny Hallyday, Christine Margaret
Keeler, Carles Santos, Norihiko Hashida, James Mundell Lowe, Robert "Bilbo"
Walker Jr., Magin Diaz Garcia, Michael I, Barbara Dickson, Jessica Lee Morgan,
Rick Wakeman, Billion Dollar Babies, Tangerine Dream, John McLaughlin, Alan
Dearling, Waterloo Station, All Party Parliamentary Writers' Group (APWG),
Wojciech Grajkowski, Agnes Monod-Gayraud, Cressida Cowell, David Freiberg's
Quicksilver Messenger Service, John Brodie-Good, Jeremy Smith, Larry Wallis, Kev
Rowland, Monster Magnet, Quiet Riot, Ric Sanders, Rafael Senra, Quantum Fantay,
Carol Albert, Catherine Howe, Hawkwind, Jimmy Durante, Katy Perry, Jimi Hendrix,
Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Beyonce, Neil Nixon
And the last few issues are:
Issue 263 (The magic Band)
Issue 262 (DikMik)
Issue 261 (Leonard Cohen)
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!
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 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?
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