The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
And so today I am finally biting the proverbial bullet and getting down to
the horrible task of making all our mailing lists GDPR compliant. Doing this is
even more annoying than when I had to write up a Health and Safety compliance
document for the Weird Weekend a couple of years back. I truly resent having to
do this "ticking the boxes" stuff, and it was much more fun when Graham, Richard
and I were the last gang in town, playing fast and loose with every regulation
that came our way, twenty years ago. But entropy only goes in one direction, and
so I have to buckle down to it.
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:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Osibisa - Pata Pata 1...
Hawkwind Documentary (Do not Panic)
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
YES NEWS
FRANK ZAPPA NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #285
THE AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ISSUE
As Netflix streams (almost) the entire output of the Monty Python team plus
a whole bunch of documentaries, we take a nostalgic look at these Titans of
Comedy. Doug remembers Mr Rogers, Corinna looks at Hawkwind on eBay, John looks
forward to upcoming gigs, and bemoans recent bankruptcies, Biffo talks about the
toxic fandom of Ricky Gervais and Alan goes Busking.
#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:
Monty Python, Wayne Kramer, MC5, John Lennon, Julia Baird, Selfridges,
Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Suede, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Vladimir Borisovich Sapunov, Dick Williams, Abi
Ofarim, Tony Cucchiara, Stephen "Steve" Coy, Tony Kinman, Gayle Shepherd, Ben
Graves, Carl Perkins, Big T, David William Goodall AM, Ashton, Gardner, Dyke
& Co., Michael Bruce, Man, Karnataka, Doug Harr, Fred Rogers, Alan Dearling,
Street Performing, Jonny Walker, John Brodie-Good, upcoming gigs, Gibson
Guitars, Oppo, Shure, Business Catalyst, Kev Rowland, Birzer Bandana, Bleeding
Gods, Broken Cross, Colin Edwin/Robert Jurjendal, Corrosion of Conformity,
Discipline, Flaming Row, Martin Schnella & Melanie Mau, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard,
Chris Stone, Hawkwind, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Jon Dunn, Jerry
Garcia, Elvis, Beatles, Offspring, Victoria Beckham, David Bowie, Jimii Hendrix,
Grateful Dead, Mark Fry
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?
