The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
And so we trundle on. The new episode of On the Track is now up. I have
included it on all the blog notifications, because even though it is completely
off topic, I usually get complaints from one or more Gonzofolk when I leave it
out. The newsletter for December has also gone out; all this being spectacular
considering that it is only just gone midday and I have a cold and am therefore
feeling somewhat sorry for myself. As a result of this rhinovirus I am annoying
the whole household by playing Kurt Weill too loud in the office. Graham is
going away for a couple of days but this is entirely unrelated to my exploration
of the music of the Weimar Republic.
Once again I am fluttering an Aescuplian prayer flag high above the
noosphere but whereas she does not return to hospital until the end of February,
my darling wife Corinna is still in intermittent discomfort and some pain, but
we are doing our best to manage it. Please remember us in your thoughts and
prayers, because I remain convinced that the massive outpouring ofgood vibes
which have come in our direction since July, have been responsible for the
cautiously positive aetiology of her illness so far.
Thank you all of you.
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Rachmaninoff - Piano ...
SPIRITS BURNING REVIEW
LEONARD COHEN AT SUNDANCE AND MORE
On The Track (of Unknown Animals) Ep. 97 (Mystery ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
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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?
I do have good news to impart: Lars Thomas' book about the mystery land
animals of Scandinavia and the Baltic States has been uploaded, and over at
Gonzo the first volume of Kev Rowland's The Progressive Underground is also
imminent. And at Fortean Fiction, my latest novel - 'Zen and Xenophobia' -
vaguely a sequel to 2015's 'The Song of Panne' - is now available.
! would warn you that if you are of a nervous disposition, or easily
offended, you will find parts of my novel both offensive and upsetting. There is
sex, violence, drug abuse, occultism, pornography, firearms, politics, religion,
and not a little sociology. But there is also love, kindness, faith, and
redemption. And it's a cracking good yarn. Or I think so, at any rate. All I
would say on the subject before bidding you farewell is Caveat Lector. And I'm
not gonna explain what that means, because because if you don't know what that
means then you probably shouldn't be reading the book in the first place.
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #303/4
THE WE TOOK THE WRONG STEP YEARS AGO ISSUE
This is a very Hawkwind-centric issue: Graham talks about the latest tour,
and John goes to see them at The Palladium. But we also have Richard Seizing
Lambeth Bridge with Extinction Rebellion, Alan critiquing The Beatles reissued
White Album, and interviewing Playground Theory, Carl and Geordie go searching
for zombie locations, and Jon bumbles on about Digitiser the Show and a book
that lifts the lid on the New Labour government of twenty years ago.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, AND there are columns from Kev Rowlands, BUT C J Stone, AND
Mr Biffo AND Neil Nixon, AND Roy Weard AND the irrepressible Corinna are on
hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and
rock wallabies who've blown a fuse (OK, nothing to do with the relatively small
macropods who are having electrical problems, but I got carried away with things
that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stickat. And the best part is IT's
ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
This issue features:
Digitiser, Paul Rose, Mr Biffo, Norm MacPherson, Martin Springett, Richard
Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Cyril Pahinui, Alexander "Alec" Finn, Masahiro Sayama, Stan Lee, Evgeny
Viktorovich Osin, Jens "Malle-Jens" Büchner, Al James, Luis Enrique Gatica
Silva, Rasmus Berg, The Fall, Tony Palmer, Chad Mitchell Trio, Deviants IXVI,
Mick Farren, Steve Bonino, Kev Rowland, Alan Dearling, Marcy Moo, Playground
Theory, Extinction Rebellion, Richard Foreman, Blackheart Orchestra, Hawkwind,
John Brodie-Good, The White Album, The Beatles, Norman Baker, Noshir Mody, Alien
Weaponry, Octopus, Other Animal, Paradise Lost, PHI, Project:Patchworth, Carl
Marshall, Geordie Jackson,
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, Stephan Speelman, Hawkwind,
Jonathan Downes, The Coldharbour Diaries, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin
Springett, The Catholic Orangemen of Togo,
Craig Murray
And the last few issues are:
Issue 313-14 (Hawkwind)
Issue 311-12 (Extinction Rebellion)
Issue 309-10 (Steve Hillage)
Issue 307-8 (Michael Moorcock)
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 (Strangelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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