David came round yesterday and did arcane things to the audio interface
that Martin Eve gave me, adding a Phantom Power Box (which sounds like a bunch
of Militant Ghosts to me) and doing some arcane things to my sound drivers. But
the long and the short of it all is that he saved me about £70 and my little
studio is functional again. Sophie suggested the other day that if In got a
small garden shed outside somewhere then I could use it as a vocal booth. That
is not a bad idea at all and we will have a bash at it the next time that a
garden shed turns up on Freecycle.
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: Rachmaninov Piano Conc...
RICK WAKEMAN IN THE NEWS
GRAHAM FELLOWS NEWS
LEONARD COHEN NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #281
THE LET THERE BE DRUMS ISSUE
Doug goes to see Carl Palmer with the ELP Legacy, and is happy to say that
the percussional wunderkind of half a century ago still has what it takes, Alan
and Phil give an encyclopaedic overview of ladies who have sung the blues,
Graham brings us up to date with Hawkwind, and Jon brings us up to date with a
follow up on last week's article about Steve Andrews.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, BUT Friday
Night Progressive is on hiatus this week, there are columns from all sorts of
folk including Neil Nixon, Kev Rowlands, C J Stone, and Mr Biffo AND the
irrepressible Corinna, although Roy Weard is sady absent this week. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers
who have stood around in twos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have
paired up under last weekend's blue moon, 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:
Steve Andrews, Sheffield tree-felling, Beatles, Jay-Z, Tony Banks, David
Bowie, Morrissey, Mark 'E' Everett, Bob Dylan, Elton John, #200Fish, Strange
Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's
Mystery Hour, Kenny O'Dell, Caleb Scofield, Lívia Rév, Sabahudin Kurt, Brendon
Whitney, Michael Tree, Frode Magnus Viken, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Audrey
Morris, Ahmed Janka Nabay, Barbro Margareta Svensson (Lill-Babs), Walter
Frederick George Williams (Bill Maynard), Mike Harrison, Philip Ballantyne Kerr,
Rick Wakeman, Natural Gas, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Michael Bruce, Man, Doug
Harr, Carl Palmer, ELP Legacy, Alan Dearling, Phil Bayliss, Gertrude 'Ma'
Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Nina
Simone, Joan Armatrading, Big Mama Thornton, Memphis Minnie, Odetta, Angela Y.
Davis, Kev Rowland, Seconds Before Landing, Sound Storm, Squealer, Starsabout,
Sulphatketamine, Taproban, Tonochrome, Weend'o, Mr Biffo, C J Stone, Hawkwind,
Jonathan Downes, Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, G.T. Reels, Elvis, The
Who, Syd Barrett, Jimi Hendrix, Fornicating Female Freaks, Dr John
And the last few issues are:
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
Issue 279 (Biffo)
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:
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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.
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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?
