The Gonzo Daily: Thursday
Last night I discovered that a quintet of plays by Bill Drummond, written
under the soubriquet of 'Tenzing Scott brown' and called 'The Cherry Blossom
Quartet' (yes, there are five of them) was performed on Resonance FM just over a
year ago. Furthermore, they are all available to listen to online, and so -
appropriately - I accidentally listened to the final one first last night.
Between Heaven and Helsinki, is based on the rise and fall of Kristina Bruuk,
the imaginary singer invented by Drummond and Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love
Reaction's Mark Manning for their book, Bad Wisdom. In their epic voyage to the
top of the world, the pair created a record label, Kalevala, and released six
singles by make-believe bands, with Bruuk – described as 'the Nico of the
north-lands' – contributing guest vocals to a record by fictional all-female
Finnish quartet, Dracula's Daughter. The play that has come out of all this is
something of a rock and roll tragedy.
Check them out:
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:
Kevin Ayers in "Wild Thing" music documentary
Nico - rare NZ interview (1985)
RICK SPRINGFIELD IN THE NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Frederick Delius: Flo...
Gonzo Weekly #283
THE BACK TO THE VINYL FUTURIST ISSUE
In the week where it has been announced that the recorded music industry in
the UK has had its best year since Britpop, John looks at Record Store Day 2018
from the point of view of a Gonzo reader, Alan does some extraordinary things in
Lithuania, Doug looks at an unfairly overlooked Genesis album, and Jon mutters
on about Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, and global reapolitik.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive is on hiatus this week, there are columns from all sorts of
folk including Neil Nixon, Kev Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna, although
Roy Weard, C J Stone, and Mr Biffo are sadly 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:
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Corky Laing, Morrissey, Kino, Sting,
The Damned, Nick Mason, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's
Mystery Hour, Tom McBride, Maurice Reedus Jr., Deborah Coleman, Irwin Gage,
Arthur William Bell III, Barbara Bush, Randy Lynn Scruggs, Rick Wakeman, Natural
Gas, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Michael Bruce, Man, Doug Harr, Genesis, Alan
Dearling, Uzupis, Poliarizuoti stiklai, Uprising Tree, Nerius Peciura, Rakija
Klezmer Orchestra, Baltasis Kiras, Sen Svaja, Arklio Galia, Balandos, John
Brodie-Good, Record Store Day 2018, Kev Rowland, The Billy Lester Trio, Joe
Elliott's Down 'N' Outz, Blood Red Saints, Blues Pills, Brad Garton & Dave
Soldier, Bugenhagen, Christina, Hawkwind, The Blackheart Orchestra, Martin
Springett, Pink Floyd, Elvis, Jerry Garcia, Elton John, Neil Nixon, Roddy Frame,
Manic Street Preachers
And the last few issues are:
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
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!
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it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
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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?
