Gonzo Weekly #305/6

Gonzo Weekly #305/6

THE JOKER ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

And so John goes to see John Fogerty and the Steve Miller Band, Jon muses about the JAMMS and the Toxteth Day of the Dead, Alan wanders about the South Coast of England with Gonzoid intent, Kev goes to see Sepultura and Death Angel in New Zealand, we critique a book about Gorillaz, and Carl and Geordie remember Dawn of the Dead. And Graham brings us up to date with Hawkwind. And there's lots of other stuff as well.

#Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Canterbury Sans Frontieres AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there are columns from Kev Rowlands, and J Stone, BUT 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 stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

This issue features:

Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Toxteth Day of the Dead, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Daisy Eris Campbell, Ken Worthington, John Shuttleworth, Morrissey, Prince, Bono, Kev Rowland, Sepultura, Death Angel, Blindfolded And Led To The Woods (BALTTW), Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Johnny Maddox, Malam Mamane Barka, Eddie C. Campbell, Lewis Frederick William Caddick, Edward Benton "Eddie" Reeves, Scott English, Chris Burroughs, Erik Raymond Lindmark, Harold "Devin" Lima, Trevor McNaughton, Edwin Calvin Newborn, Joseph Leon Williams, Harry Leslie Smith, Pete Shelley, The Fall, Tony Palmer, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Deviants IXVI, Mick Farren, Alan Dearling, The Dials, Necessary Animals, Ana Egge, The Satellites, John Brodie-Good, The Steve Miller Band, John Fogerty, Reformat, Rozmainsky & Mikhaylov Project, Perfect Beings, Rausch, Roch Lockyer, Takaaki, |Carl Marshall, Geordie Jackson, Dawn of the Dead, Jon Downes, Coldharbour Diaries, C J Stone, Hawkwind, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad and the Queen

And the last few issues are:

Issue 313-14 (Hawkwind)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-313-14.html

Issue 311-12 (Extinction Rebellion)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-310-11.html

Issue 309-10 (Steve Hillage)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-309-10.html

Issue 307-8 (Michael Moorcock)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-307-8.html

Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-305-6.html

Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-303-4.html

Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-301-2.html

Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-299-30.html

Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo295-6.html

Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo294.html

Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo293.html

Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo292.html

Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo291.html

Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo290.html

Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo289.html

Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo288.html

Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo287.html

Issue 286 (Monty Python)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo286.html

Issue 285 (ELP)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo285.html

Issue 284 (Strangelove)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo284.html

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

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.

* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to 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 59 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?

THE HO HO HEN UNDER THE MOON OF ALABAMA

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

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:

 

It is Sunday, so to raise a smile

Mother and I listen to Kurt Weill,

and do our best to stop the dogs

running amok while I do the blogs

 

Slainte

 

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-epiphany-hymn.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Epiphany Hymn

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/12/leonard-cohen-news.html

LEONARD COHEN NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/12/barbara-dickson-en-passant.html

BARBARA DICKSON EN PASSANT

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/12/captain-beefheart-en-passant.html

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART EN PASSANT

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_2.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

 

 

OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:

 

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http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

 

CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:

 

UK

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/

US

http://www.gonzomultimedia.com

 

AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

 

Our webTV show:

https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057

 

And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

 

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

 

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

 

The Gonzo Daily: Thursday

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/

 

YER EDITOR SEZ:

 

On top of everything else I have a cold and feel lousy, Corinna and I have a doctor appointment this afternoon, and tomorrow is not just the Toxteth Day of the Dead, but a Full Moon. So when somebody who shall remain nameless telephones saying "I know you told me not to telephone but I thought I would anyway" I think I can be forbidden for what I said next.

 

There will be a Gonzo magazine this weekend, but because there is an important hospital appointment tomorrow I am making no firm promises as to the scheduling, or that of the blogs for the rest of the week. I sincerely hope that these appointments will shed light on her condition, and indicate what her treatment should be. Corinna is mostly pain free, although in discomfort. In the mneantime she is being massively brave. I cannot tell you how much I love and admire that woman. Poor lass has to undergo another batch of tests, and we continue to forge on until something actually happens. Please remember us in your thoughts and prayers.

 

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

 

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY:  Pink Fairies - Waitin...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-gonzo-track-of-day-pink-fairies.html

Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten discuss "Die Winter...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/11/peter-pears-benjamin-britten-discuss.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_22.html

Captain Beefheart - Co De Kloet Interview (July 23...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/11/captain-beefheart-co-de-kloet-interview.html

Frank Zappa interview 1974

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/11/frank-zappa-interview-1974.html

 

OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:

 

For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy Policy is here:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

 

And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:

http://tinyurl.com/y7b9rlog

And, yes,

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

 

CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:

 

UK

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/

US

http://www.gonzomultimedia.com

 

AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

 

Our webTV show:

https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057

 

And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

 

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

 

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.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zen-Xenophobia-happened-after-Panne/dp/1909488569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540992221&sr=8-1&keywords=zen+and+xenophobia

 

! 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

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

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)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-313-14.html

Issue 311-12 (Extinction Rebellion)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-310-11.html

Issue 309-10 (Steve Hillage)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-309-10.html

Issue 307-8 (Michael Moorcock)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-307-8.html

Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-305-6.html

Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-303-4.html

Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-301-2.html

Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-299-30.html

Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo295-6.html

Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo294.html

Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo293.html

Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo292.html

Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo291.html

Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo290.html

Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo289.html

Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo288.html

Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo287.html

Issue 286 (Monty Python)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo286.html

Issue 285 (ELP)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo285.html

Issue 284 (Strangelove)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo284.html

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

 

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.

 

 

* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to 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 59 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?

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Sunday

ON THIS DAY IN -  1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. 
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Chimpanzees sniff out strangers and family members...

Extinction Has Five Faces - via Herp Digest

AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)