The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
And for no real reason Sunday's notifications are done in rhyme
It's Sunday so again its time
to do the daily blogs in rhyme:
I've been off sick since Wednesday night
But I think I am back OK now
For a couple of days I felt terribly shite
but at last my body will allow
me to get on with stuff that all needs to be done
and catch up with the backlog and how
and to write deathless prose, and try to make it fun
whether nonsense, or news or highbrow
Ta Dah!!
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.
And for those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo 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:
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Coptic hymn Epouro O King ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
CAROL HODGE/CRYSTAL GRENADE NEWS
FRANK ZAPPA NEWS
YES feat ARW
Gonzo Weekly #294
THE SEE JUNGLE SEE JUNGLE GO JOIN YOUR GANG YEAH CITY ALL OVER GO APE CRAZY
ISSUE
In this remarkably eclectic issue, which is one of my favourites for a
while, Doug meets Annabella Lwin from the legendary Bow Wow Wow. Wow! Alan
discusses the rewilding of the British coastline, John takes a critical look at
Dweezil Zappa, Wooden Sjhips, Jessica Risker and more, while Jon talks about
Mott the Hoople and Sadie Mae Glutz and Graham brings us up to date with
Hawkwind news. YOU CANNOT GET MUCH MORE ECLECTIC THAN THAT!
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive is on hiatus this week, AND there are columns from all sorts
of folk including Kev Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna, although Neil
Nixon, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo are having a well-deserved
week off. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews
and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest
extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, 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:
Rewilding Britain, Mott the Hoople, Paul McCartney, Public Image Limited,
Andrew Boff, cannabis, Yes, Morrissey, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Henry Butler, Alan Longmuir,
William Russell Watrous III, Roy Carr, Jahvante (Smoke Dawg) Smart, Eugene
Sampson Pitt, Big Bill Bissonnette, Harlan Jay Ellison, Richard Swift, Rick
Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural Gas, Doug Harr, Bow Wow Wow, Annabelle Lwin,
Alan Dearling, Rewilding Britain, Devon, Berwickshire, John Brodie-Good, Wooden
Shjips, Jessica Risker, Rusty Young, Poco, Diana Mangano, Dweezil Zappa, Darryl
Williams, Kev Rowland, Johannes Luley, Karkaos, Bugra Sisman, King Goat,
Krepuskul, Last Days of Eden, Legend of the Seagullmen, Letters from the Colony,
Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Susan
Atkins-Whitehouse (aka Sadie Mae Glutz), Helter Skelter, Charles Manson,
Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett, Beastie Boys, Michael Jackson,
Blackbeard
And the last few issues are:
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
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
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.
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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?
