The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
"Chimeny chimeny chim chim cheroo,
a fat cryptozoologist is writing to youoooo"
Sarah, our delightful new housekeeper arrived yesterday in a maelstrom of
activity. The only thing stopping her from being our veritable Mary Poppins is
that she has singularly failed to sing me and Archie a song about feeding the
birds at tuppence a bag - something which I hope she shall rectify soon.
When I was a boy, my first introduction to the world of science fiction was
the UNEXA novels of Hugh Walters, and I have been wanting to re-read them all
for decades. I have a few that I have picked up over the years, but I was
overjoyed the other evening to find an online resource which has all but the
final two available as free (and I suspect slightly hooky) e-books. The
hookiness of them is irrelevant as far as I am concerned because the author
(whose real name was Walter Llewelyn Hughes, who ran a furniture store, Walter
Hughes Ltd in Bradley and became Managing Director of Brasteds Ltd (a
contraction of Bradley Bedsteads) and who in 1931 he married Doris Higgins) has
been dead for a quarter of a century and the books have been long unavailable.
Check them out at:
Expedition Venus is particularly nasty, and - from memory - was probably my
favourite
My pleas for a marketing guru for the CFZ have gone unanswered so far, but
I live in hope. I would very much like to become the acceptable face of
alternative capitalism, if only so I can send rude and threatening letters to
myself, so please get in touch.
We are all doing our best to carry on as normal, but I am afraid that our
deadlines are sort of out the window at this point. Corinna is still largely
pain free, and being pretty damn magnificent. Thank you to all of you who keep
on praying for us. Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. I am
convinced that the barrage of love and blessings you have sent us so far has
borne remarkable results. And being at the receiving end of such a torrent of
positive vibes is a truly wonderful and humbling experience.
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have
sold eight whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate
I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium.
Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here:
https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't
I?
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
YES NEWS
UNCLE RICK'S PIANO ODYSSEY
LEONARD COHEN IN THE NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Fairport Convention - ...
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AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #305-6
THE SAUCERFUL OF WASSNAMES ISSUE
In another fantastically fab issue, Kev and Jon bid a fond farewell to
Maartin Allcock, Graham has a shufti at the reactions to the new Hawkwind album,
Alan looks at art from beach litter, and conducts a Listening Post with Kyle
Mew, Jeremy checks out Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, John goes to see David
Crosby, and Jon burbles on about Erich Kastner, Michael Moorcock and Bojack
Horseman.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Canterbury sans
Frontieres AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev
Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard AND Mr Biffo but the
irrepressible Corinna is 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:
Erich Kästner, Bojack Horseman, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Chas Hodges,
Cruise to the Edge, Peter Hook, Joy Division, Damon Albarn, Suede, Gary Numan,
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Jeremy Smith, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery
Hour, Max Bennett, Wesley Tinglin, Cecil James McNeely, Buren Bayaer, Denis
Mostyn Norden CBE, Felton Pruett, Charles Nicholas Hodges, Dudley Sutton, Man,
Binky Womack, Rick Wakeman, Essra Mohawk, Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun, Alan
Dearling, Litter Cubes, Kev Rowland, Maartin Allcock,Richard Foreman, Swanage
Folk Festival, John Brodie-Good, David Crosby & Friends, Kyle Mew,
Streetlight Manifesto, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Childish Gambino,
Andrew Jackson Jihad, Mariachi El Bronx aka The Bronx, Random Hand, Jonathan
Coulton, Brothers Moving, Gogol Bordello, Fake Problems, Downriver Dead Men Go,
Earthless, Epos Nemo Latrocinium, The Fierce and the Dead, Flesh Hoarder,
Frequency Drift, Frontline, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Chris Stone, Hawkwind,
Coldharbour Diaries, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett,
Michael Moorcock, Spirits Burning, Neil Nixon, Vincent Gallo
And the last few issues are:
Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
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)
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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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
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mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we
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