The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
I woke up this morning with – what I believe is called - an earworm
wriggling about my head. What's worse is that I couldn't work out what the song
was. Three irritating hours later I realised that it was a song by Clive Gregson
and Christine Collister that I hadn't thought about in years. So I put the album
on, and realised with a jolt. what a bloody good band they were. I saw them live
in Exmouth or somewhere of that ilk back in 1989, and it was one of the best
shows I saw all year. So guess what I am listening to today?
I am feeling a little tired today, not because of the gin I ingested last
night, but because I was up stupidly late finishing Joann Hodgkin's awesome
'Amateurs in Eden'; the story of her late Mother's marriage to Lawrence Durrell.
It is a remarkable, poignant, and eminently readable memoir which plays games
with style and substance as well as telling a remarkable story. I am putting my
credit card to good use: I think Henry Miller's 'Colossus of Mourosi' is
next.
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
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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: Barbara Dickson - Car...
Interview with ARTHUR BROWN 2017 - Heavy Demons Ra...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
ZAPPA NEWS
ROB AND SANDY IN THE NEWS AGAIN
Gonzo Weekly #287
THE LAST FREAKOUT ISSUE
In this progressively poignant issue, Tim Rundall remembers his old friend
Boss Goodman, Jon remembers Gerald Durrell, and reads Nelson DeMille, Doug goes
to see Steven Wilson, Graham is in the desert talking about Hawkwind and Alan
waxes lyrical upon The Hanging Stars.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, the columns from all sorts of folk including Neil Nixon, and
Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo are on hiatus this week although Kev
Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna are present and correct. There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and tiger quolls who have
nothing to lose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have got all
fatalistic, 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:
Gerald Durrell, Beach Boys, The Beatles, John Lydon, Sid Vicious, Damon
Albarn, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Beastie Boys, Prince, The Rolling Stones,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Glenn
Branca, Margaret Ruth Kidder, Scott Hutchison, Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin,
Bessie Camm (née Alderson, formerly Canwood), Matt Marks, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe
Jr., Ashton, Gardner, Dyke & Co., Michael Bruce, Man, Karnataka, Tim
Rundall, Dave 'Boss' Goodman, Doug Harr, Steven Wilson, Alan Dearling, The
Hanging Stars, Kev Rowland, Galahad, Gary Miller, Gridfailure, Imperial
Triumphant, Johan Kilberg's Impera, Hawkwind, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin
Springett, Nelson DeMille, Trina, Benny Goodman, Ray Charles, Grateful Dead,
Iggy Pop, The Doors, Rossini
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!
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raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
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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
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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?
