The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
Much to my chagrin I discovered yesterday that the syndication programme
which I use to make sure that blog posts are proliferated onto the appropriate
Facebook pages had gone wrong. It appears that all the hoo hah with GDPR earlier
in the year should have resulted in me being sent a notice telling me that I
needed to update all the Facebook and Twitter priveliges. Needless to say that
no such notice was ever received, and thus a large proportion of what should
have been posted to social media wasn't.
Oh how we laughed. We didn't actually, I just swore a lot, and ranted about
idiotic bureaucracy until Corinna brought in tea, and I completely forgot all
about it.
And so the saga of my new record trundles on and on. I received a very
interesting snippet of knowledge the other day. According to one of the books by
Joan Aitken, a cold harbour was an unofficial place of safety, maintained by
vagrants and vagabonds. I had been reading Aitken’s Cold Shoulder Road whilst I
was mixing the album. However my old friend Judy Ja’afar one time head honchess
of BUFORA (the British UFO Research Organisation, if you didn’t know) thought I
was being crafty in my titling:
“Project Cobra Mist run out of Orford Ness and East Anglia bases leased to
America. Allegedly pulled in 69/70 but continued under the name Cold Harbour.
There is much to tell, but not on here.”
Art imitating life again..
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't
I?
There is no further news about Corinna. She needs more tests, and so the
waiting game continues. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers...
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
The Day John Lennon Died (2010 Documentary)
Eric Burdon - The Animals And Beyond (Awesome Docu...
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Yes - Owner of a Lone...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
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AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #299/300
THE RESPECT IS DUE ISSUE
In another fun packed and spectacularly Gonzoesque issue, Doug goes to see
Bow wow wow and ABC and Belinda Carlisle and more at Retro Futura, Alan loves
Courtney Barnett's new album, and looks at the return of the Necessary Animals,
Jon bitches
about Fake News and praises snarky online book critiquing, Graham examines
a Hawkwind rarity that isn't and there is poetry
from Thom and Josephine Dunn.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, AND there are columns from all sorts of folk including Kev
Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard BUT the irrepressible Corinna AND
Mr Biffo are on hiatus. 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:
John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Richard Thompson, Caravan, Curved
Air, ULU, Phil Collins, Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Richard Freeman, Strange
Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Linda Mkhize, Jose
Carlos Almenar Otero, Majid Al-Majid, Jett McKee (Scepaz), Navid Izadi, Randall
Desmond Archibald, Aretha Louise Franklin, Rick Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural
Gas, Doug Harr, Alan Dearling, Courtney Barnett, Josephine Dunn, Kev Rowland,
Acherontas, Alight, The Amorettes, Andrew Neu, Auri, Axel Rudi Pell, Agnostic
Front, Hell to Pay, Necessary Animals, Stephen Clarke 1980, Roy Weard, C J
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Mardoll, Neil Nixon, Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
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)
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Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
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