The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
Unlike many people I actually like the beginning of the week. It is so
pregnant with possibilities of what could be achieved, with all the
opportunities laid out before one like glittering dishes at a conceptual
banquet. Then, of course, five days later one looks back at all the bollocks
that has occurred, and one merely wants to hide in a gin bottle for a couple of
days. But somehow those two days in the gin bottle refresh one (well, they
refresh me, at any rate) and I find myself fit and cheerful and ready for the
week ahead once more. My enthusiasm has already borne a certain amount of fruit:
Animals & Men 64/5 is now with Corinna who will fix my execrable spelling
before it goes public in a few days.
And for those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy
Policy is here:
And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
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:
FRANK ZAPPA NEWS
BARBARA DICKSON IN THE NEWS
FAIRPORT CONVENTION NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Captain Beefheart - ..
Gonzo Weekly #289
THE JAH WONDERFUL ISSUE
We continue to trawl the counterculture with this Jah Wonderful issue of
Gonzo Weekly featuring Alan on Misty in Roots, Doug on the Dixie Dregs, Jon on
Political biopics, John on Ryley Walker, C J Stone on Chaos Magic, Graham on
Hawkwind and Richard on Bob Weir and we have lots more besides...
#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, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo and Kev Rowlands AND the
irrepressible Corinna . There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and tiger quolls who are havinga little snooze (OK, nothing to do
with small dasyurids who are a little sleepy, 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:
Jeremy Thorpe, Dave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear, Brand X, John Lennon,
Michael Jackson, Carl Palmer, Gorillaz, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Elton
John, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury sans Frontieres, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Stewart Lupton, Andy MacQueen, Tsehaytu Beraki, Phillip
Ernest Emmanuel, Jürgen Marcus, Eyio Di Marzo, Josh Martin, Alan LaVern Bean,
Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, Rick Wakeman, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell
Trio, Doug Harr, Dixie Dregs, Alan Dearling, Misty in Roots, Richard Foreman,
Bob Weir, John Brodie-Good, Ryley Walker, Kev Rowland, Melanie Mau & Martin
Schnella, Mike Lepond's Silent Assassins, Necropanther, Rick Springfield, Ring
of Gyges, Sainted Sinners, Scumpulse, Chris Stone, Chaos Magic, Hawkwind, The
Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Elvis, Beatles, Britney Spears,
Janis Joplin
And the last few issues are:
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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?
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...
The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
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