The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
The new Gorilla album is out today. Reading an interview with Senor Albarn,
he says that on Humanz he kind of forgot to put any of himself into it, which is
roughly what I thought at the time, although the album has grown on me
massively. This album is sort of a polar opposite. It is nearly all Damon with
only a couple of guests, and is pretty well devoid of the signature hiphop. I
like it a lot, and am sure that it will grow on me further, but I think that if
you added the two albums together and then cut the resulting collection in half,
you might possibly have the greatest albums that Gorillaz have ever
produced.
Just sayin’
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buy the record by the main protagonist of the novel who isn't me in an
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But for now, here is the news:
ERIC BURDON NEWS
YES FEATURING ARW IN THE NEWS
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Shostakovich: Symphon...
Gonzo Weekly #292
THE NO TERN UNSTONED ISSUE
In this hearty Rocking and a rolling issue, Doug goes to see the Rolling
Stones, Alan goes to an Alternative Punk do at the Hope & Anchor, Jon
discovers the music of Bernie Christie and discovers that the spirit of Willard
Price lives on beyond the grave. Plus Graham looks at Hawkwind and Roy remembers
touring with Kevin Ayers and Ollie Halsall, and some collectible tat from the
lovely Corinna. Who could ask for more?
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, BUT Friday
Night Progressive is on hiatus this week, there are columns from all sorts of
folk including Kev Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna, as well as Neil
Nixon, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and tree kangaroos who've left piles of
poos (OK, nothing to do with medium sizes arboreal macropods who are no longer
constipated, 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:
Bernie Christie, Paul McCartney, Cher, Bruce Springsteen, PiL, Dr. Dre,
Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Puan, Efren
Echeverria, Josef Bansi Quinteros, Billy Sammeth, Travon Da Shawn Frank Smart,
Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, Rebecca Parris, Nick Knox, Matthew Tyler Murphy, Santos
Blanco, Hanabiko "Koko”, Lowrell Simon, Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, Rick
Wakeman, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell Trio, Doug Harr, Rolling Stones,
Alan Dearling, Hope and Anchor Pub, Ambition Demolition, The Glorias, Surgery
without Research, The Satellites, Kev Rowland, Demonical, Don Broco, Dukes of
the Orient, Dusan Jevtovic, Foul Body Autopsy, Greystone Canyon, Gwar, Thunder,
Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, CJ Stone, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Anthony McGowan,
George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Michael Jackson, Neil Nixon, Funkadelic,
Gorillaz
And the last few issues are:
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
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)
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
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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?
