The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
Well, Friday is now here, and it is marginally less cold than it was, but
there is still about half an inch of powdery snow scattered about the garden and
the lane outside our house. The promised blizzards and Arctic carnage singularly
failed to arrive, although Corinna and I slept downstairs because it is far
warmer.
As a result I had the nicest night’s sleep that I have had in yonks,
stretched out in my favourite armchair with Archie curled up on my lap.
Now, I don’t mean to be one of those curmudgeonly old sods who continually
complains about the state of the modern world, but this snowfall is a fukkin’
doddle compared top some of the ones I experienced in this very house when I was
a youngster.
On two or three occasions the snow was as high as the upper windows of the
house and we were properly snowed in. Half an inch of powdery stuff with the
consistency of icing sugar, and one frozen pipe is nothing in comparison.
But in those days the newspapers didn’t employ people top come up with cute
little names for inclement weather patterns.
“Beast from the East” Pah!
ciaou....
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
ERIC BURDON IN THE NEWS
RICK SPRINGFIELD IN THE NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #275
THE APOCALYPSE WOW ISSUE
In this massively groovy issue we meet Martin Gordon (ex of Sparks and
Radio Stars amongst others) to talk about his excellent, if apocalyptic, new
record, Alan discovers an art enclave near Portsmouth, Doug goes to see
Bananarama, and Jon watches Riverdale
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, although -
for technical reasons beyond our control - Friday Night Progressive is on hiatus
this week. TheRE ARE columns from all sorts of folk including Neil Nixon, AND
the irrepressible Corinna, although Roy Weard, C J Stone, and Mr Biffo are on a
break. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and
southern dibblers who have gone for a snooze (OK, nothing to do with small
marsupials who have probably got hangovers and have decided to have a little
rest, 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:
Riverdale, Chic Ft Nile Rodgers, Wilderness Festival, George Harrison,
Elton John, The Rutles, Soft Cell, John Lydon, Damon Alban, Strange Fruit, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Shaun "Stormin MC" Lewis, Didier Lockwood, Little Sammy
Davis, Boyd H. Jarvis, Billie Johnson, Klaasje van der Wal, William Franklin
Graham Jr. KBE., Norm Rogers, Nuray Hafiftas, Rapee Sagarik, Barbara Dickson,
Jessica Lee Morgan, Rick Wakeman, Billion Dollar Babies, Tangerine Dream, Martin
Gordon, Doug Harr, Bananarama, Alan Dearling, Portsmouth, Kev Rowland,
Playgrounded, Primitive Man, Pulsing Dark Absorptions, Riddlemaster, Scour,
Security Project, Signs of the Swarm, Smothered Bowels, Hawkwind, Jon Downes,
The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Michael A. Duffy, The Beatles,
Traveling Wilburys, The Who, Prince, Grateful Dead, Paul McCartney, Neil Nixon,
Wild Man Fischer
And the last few issues are:
Issue 274 (Steve Took)
Issue 273 (Live Dead 69)
Issue 272 (George Butler)
Issue 271 (Mark E Smith)
Issue 270 (Eric Clapton)
Issue 269 (Narnia)
Issue 267-8 (Happy New Year)
Issue 265-6 (The Who)
Issue 264 (John McLaughlin)
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!
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* 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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