The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
I heartily recommend Tony Palmer's film about Shostakovitch. A review by
Derek Elly reads:
"Testimony is one of those comparatively rare events nowadays; a real piece
of cinema. Palmer's prowess as an editor, his knack of juxtaposing image and
music, something which has remained his forte since he first caused a stir back
in the Sixties with Buddhist monks burning to The Beatles, has a field day in
Testimony. Most importantly for a movie about a composer, there is always the
feeling that Palmer understands the music. For a start he puts to rest the hoary
old cliche that the private Shostakovich is only to be found in his chamber
music (try listening to the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Fourteenth symphonies)
but he also brings vividly alive musical details (like the composer's use of
unison scoring) in colour sequences showing the orchestra, as in the climax of
the Fifth...a truly remarkable film."
Richard was here over the weekend in order to pick uo the equipment for his
trip to Tajikistan. We are all very excited about this, because it is a place
none of us - and very few crypto-types - have visited. Olivia (plus cat) arrives
here this afternoon, because - for a whole range of reasons with whichI shall
not bore you - her cat Morticia is coming to live with us. The latest OTT is
just being tweaked and will be out early this week.Apart from that? Nada!
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Gonzo Weekly #291
THE APPLES AND ALIENS ISSUE
Kev meets Alien Weaponry, the blue eyed boys of New Zealand Maori Metal,
Doug waxes lyrical about ex Stray Cat guitarist Brian Setzer, Alan reads about
Francoise Hardy, Jon encounters the Apple help desk and critiques Genevieve
Ching. And there is Hawkwind and the lovely Corinna. Who could ask for
more?
#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 Kev
Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna, though Neil Nixon, and Roy Weard, and C
J Stone, and Mr Biffo are absent this time arounf. 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:
houghty2, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Prince, Black Grape,
Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Robert Smith, The Cure, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Wayne Dockery, Philip
John "Jon" Hiseman, Jaroslaw Kozidrak, Maria Butaciu, Neil Evans Boyd, Ras
Kimono, Daniel David Kirway, Dominic Joseph Fontana, Jimmy Gonzalez, Eliza
Carthy, Kate Rusby, Rick Wakeman, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell Trio,
Alien Weaponry, Kev Rowland, Doug Harr, Brian Setzer, The Stray Cats, Alan
Dearling, Francoise Hardy, Black Royal, Machine Head, Nightwish, Bruce Lamont,
Caba, Cave Bastard, Chris Bay, Coreleoni, Hawkwind, Matthew Wright, The Wild
Colonial Boy, Jon Downes, Martin Springett, G.P.Ching, Iron Maiden, Elvis,
Beatles, Sex Pistols, Jimi Hendrix, Franz Liszt
And the last few issues are:
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
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)
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* 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?
