The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
Yesterday we had probably my favourite day of the year. Andy Phillipson
carried out the druid ceremony for Bealtaine, and we had two small, but
functional, bel-fires in the garden. I cooked up a big pan of red beans and
rice, and we washed it down with spiced gin and elderflower tonic. Carl and only
I drank a modicum of it last night. We were slightly tiddly but nowhere near
drunk. And we both have terrific hangovers. Lars has just given me a lecture on
congeners, and I now understand the phenomenon far better.
Changing the subject completely, is there anyone reading this who has any
experience in coding apps? Even more importantly, if you do, would you be
prepared to lend your expertise to us for a few hours? Email me please at
jon@eclipse.co.uk.
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
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ERIK NORLANDER NEWS
LEONARD COHEN NEWS
FASCINATING LOOK AT THE BILLION $ BABIES LIVE ALBU...
Gonzo Weekly #285
THE STANDING ON A MANHOLE COVER ISSUE
In the week where things get EVEN stranger than usual, Greg goes back a few
years to the swansong of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and a gig that never was, Alan
goes on patrol with Concrete Soldiers, Doug waxes lyrical on LCD Soundsystem,
Jon celebrates the Renaissance of Mathew Street whilst standing on a manhole
cover, and comes out in support of the Italian film director who challenged the
Harry Potter empire.
#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 AND the irrepressible Corinna, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone,
and Mr Biffo. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and long nosed potoroos who have stood around waiting for other
potoroos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have decided to stage a
reading of the Samuel Beckett classic, 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:
JK Rowling, Harry Potter, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Discogs, Neil Young, Crazy
Horse, George Clinton, Brian Wilson, Suede, Rolling Stones, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery
Hour, Tim Calvert, Rose Laurens, Roberto Anglero Pepin, Larry Harvey, Roy Young,
Charles Neville, Max Berru Carrion, David "Duck" Barraclough, Kato Khandwala,
John Henry "Jabo" Starks, Ashton, Gardner, Dyke & Co., Michael Bruce, Man,
Karnataka, Greg Jarrells, ELP, Doug Harr, LCD Soundsystem, Alan Dearling,
Concrete Soldiers, Kev Rowland, Gabriele Tranchina, Gadi Caplan, Gregory Lewis,
Half Past Four, Colin Tench Project, Endorphins Lost, -16-, Come to Grief, Mr
Biffo, Roy Weard, Chris Stone, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy,
Martin Springett, The Renaissance of Mathew Street, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu,
Bill Drummond, Youthmovies, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Elvis, Neil Nixon,
Friedberger, Cultural Appropriation
And the last few issues are:
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
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!
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?
