The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
And so it is the end of another week, and it is the end of another 29.5 day
period and Lady Selene is high in the sky with all the havoc that she brings
along with her. This full moon is—apparently—a ‘blue moon’ which has nothing to
do with its colour, but instead refers to its rarity; there being two full moons
in one calendar month, and there will not be another one until Samhain 2020.
Next month’s moon will be a treat for Nick Drake fans, because it is.. You’ve
guessed it: A PINK MOON.
ciaou....
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:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore
seems to be in order: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy the record by the main protagonist of the novel who isn't me in an
elephant mask, honest:
buy my single:
But for now, here is the news:
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Bob Calvert - The Rig...
Rick Wakeman talks bad behaviour in rock at the Cl...
Tramshed's Interzone - Dave Brock from Hawkwind
COMING THIS WEEKEND
Gonzo Weekly #279
THE DIGI-ME-DO ISSUE
In this magnificently peculiar issue, The immortal and happily visible Mr
Biffo has a new TV project and needs OUR help, Alan reviews Lady Sybil Grey,
Doug concludes his series on Split Enz, John loves the new Cary Grace album, and
Jeremy goes to see the Handsome Family, while Jon reads a book about The
Beatles. Wot, another one?
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, there are columns from all sorts of folk including Neil
Nixon, Kev Rowlands, Roy Weard, C J Stone, and Mr Biffo AND the irrepressible
Corinna. 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:
Leslie Charteris, Gerald Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Digitiser, Mr Biffo,
Paul Rose, John & Yoko, Ed Sheeran,great crested newts, Ringo Starr,
Orbital, Glenn Hughes, Roger Daltrey, music piracy, David Bowie, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Charles Kofi Amankwaa
Mann, Sudan, Killjoy (Frank Pucci), José Juan Piñero González, Alfred Lynn (aka
Allah Real) Laurence Cleary, Katie Boyle, Lady Saunders (born Caterina Irene
Elena Maria Imperiali di Francavilla), Peter "Mars" Cowling, Tony Klinger,
Billion Dollar Babies, Man, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar, Jeremy
Smith, The Handsome Family, Doug Harr, Split Enz, Alan Dearling, Lady Sybil
Grey, Simon Boyd, John Brodie-Good, Cary Grace, Kev Rowland, Testament, X-Panda,
Ammouri, Anti-Flag, Armed Cloud, Babylon A.D., Band of Rain, Beast in Black,
Betontod, C.J. Stone, Hawkwind, Captain Rizz, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy,
Martin Springett, Margaret Hunt, The Beatles, Barry Manilow, Lemmy, Motorhead,
Neil Nixon, Five Starcle Men
And the last few issues are:
Issue 278 (The Beatles)
Issue 277 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 276 (Dukes of the Orient)
Issue 275 (Martin Gordon)
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)
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:
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock
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.
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to
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 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?
