The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
It is cold, damp and grey outside. Apparently the accelerated melting of
the Arctic ice cap is pushing cold air southwards. It is truly not very nice
here at the moment, especially considering it is mid May and we were warned to
expect baking heat. Everything is getting weirder and weirder - just look around
you. And you might well have thought that I would have embraced this, but I
don't.
Toodle-pip
YER EDITOR SEZ:
THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
You guys out in readership land recently did massive amounts of praying for
my wife Corinna. And that now - at least at the moment - she appears to be
cancer free. I am convinced that these two things are related. A prayer flag
(Lung ta) is a colourful rectangular cloth, often found strung along mountain
ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas, used to bless the surrounding
countryside and for other purposes. I believe something similar happens with
positive vibes transmitted electronically, and - having used it to such good
effect with my dear wife's condition - I want to try it on a larger scale. I am
still trying to work out the details, so watch this space.
Find out more:
Blessed be.
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Maria Callas - Puccini...
THAT FZ HOLO9GRAM REARS ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN
JON ANDERSON AT CAPITOL THEATRE
CHRIS SQUIRE EN PASSANT
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?
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #335/36
THE DEAR PRUDENCE ISSUE
In a bittersweet issue we meet Raz of the eponymous RAZ band, to talk about
their ground-breaking new album with Joey Molland late of Badfinger, Graham
explains how Dave Brock has got involved with U.S Presidential politics, and
also goes to the hawkwind Summer Sundae, Alan gets the Blues in Scotland,
Richard joins the Rxtinction Rebellion whilst Jon muses upon them and other
peculiar subjects including Daisy et al Imminentizing the Eschaton, Dean
remembers Wally Hope, Kev remembers Bernie Tormé and an interview he did some
years ago, Carl looks at cult Spaghetti Westerns, whilst we all say goodbye to
Prudence.
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive
AND Strange Fruit AND Canterbury Sans Frontieres. AND there is a column from Kev
Rowland, BUT Neil Nixon, Mr Biffo, C J Stone, and Roy Weard,and the
irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers who are walking in twos (OK,
nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are paired up, 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:
Prudence, Julian Assange, John Lennon, The Beatles, Michael Jackson,
Woodstock 50, Camel, Pink Floyd, Prince, Olivia McCarthy, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Earl
Thomas Conley, Paul Martin Raymond, Dina (born Ondina Maria Farias Veloso),
Jörg Demus, Kent Levaughn Harris, Leslie David Reed OBE, Johnny 'Hutch'
Hutchinson (also known as Johnny Hutch), Joe Terry (born Joe Terranova), Ed
Tigner, Jr., (better known as Eddie Tigner), Amar Pal, Dave Samuels, Dick Rivers
(born Hervé Forneri), Pink Fairies, Rick Wakeman, Comic Strip Presents, Iona,
Essra Mohawk, The RAZ Band, Joey Molland, Michael Rescigno, Kev Rowland, Bernie
Tormé, Alan Dearling, Scottish Blues Weekend, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues
Festival, Big Jon Atkinson, Øyvind Stølefjell, Kyla Brox, New Blues Session,
Nicole Smit, Gus Munro, Thomas Lucas, The Jensen Interceptors, Sandy Tweeddale,
Tim Elliott, Allan Jones, Toby Mottershead, Rollin' Joe Dalton, Richard
Foreman, XR, Dean Phillips, Wally Dean, Voices, Wiegedood, Winterfylleth, Within
the Giant's Reach, '77, Fistula/Hemdale, World Demise, Age of Taurus, Amanda
Somerville's Trillium, Carl Marshall, Geordie Jackson, Spaghetti Westerns, Tony
Klinger, Graham Inglis, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin
Springett, Daisy Campbell, John Higgs
And the last few issues are:
Issue 331-32 (Scott Walker)
Issue 329-30 (Charlie X)
Issue 327-28 (Hawkwind)
Issue 325-26 (Gonzo)
Issue 323-24 (Irvine Welsh)
Issue 321-22 (Discordianism)
Issue 319-20 (Brix Smith)
Issue 317-18 (Christmas)
Issue 315-16 (Steve Miller)
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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old hippy of 59 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, 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 elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of
social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
