The Gonzo Daily: Thursday/Friday
There will be no blogs tomorrow because of my interview with ATOS (which I am dreading). Will they be the kindly souls portrayed in the booklet they sent me, or the Gestapo headhunters portrayed on Twitter and in the popular press? My suspicion is that they will be somewhere in between. But wtf do I know? I know that I am genuinely ill, and so does everyone I know. But will they? We still have not heard about Corinna's operation and so we are all in a scary state of limbo. And I am still not drinking more than a couple of glasses of wine a few times a week. This is not a nice time.
Please keep us (and particularly Corinna) in your hopes and prayers.
Blessed be.
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AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
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:
This phantasmogorical phaerie issue pheatures: Kev tracks down Elfin Bow somewhere in phaerieland, we hear abour airborne animal rescue from PAART, Steve Andrews eulogises David de Rothschild, we go Crossing the Tyne with Emerald Stone, Doug goes to see the legendary B52s, Alan visits Surplus People, Graham tells us all about the forthcoming Hawkwind album, we visit The Netherlands for the True Music Guide, and believe it or not, Jon praises...wait for it...Taylor Swift.
Groovy eh?
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Strange Fruit, there are columns from Kev Rowland and Mr Biffo, C J Stone, and Roy Weard, but Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for 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:
Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Sinead O'Connor, Asia, Peter Hook, Jessica Hook, Melanie S Jane, Emerald Stone, Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Lavrentis Machairitsas, Camilo Blanes Cortés, Volodymyr Havrylovych Luciv, Jimmy Ray Johnson, Kylie Rae Harris, LaShawn Ameen Daniels, Les Adams, Laurent Sinclair, Adiss Harmandian, Terrance William Dicks, Donald Ray Fritts, Dan Warner, Rick Wakeman, Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris-Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, David de Rothschild, Doug Harr, B-52's, Alan Dearling, Surplus People, Nukli, Astralasia, Spacedogs, Dream Machine, Deviant Amps, AOS3, Shom, Sendelica, Captain Starfighter, Lockheeds, Lacertilia, Kev Rowland, Elfin Bow, Tony Klinger, Spock's Beard, Abhorrent Deformity, Omenfilth, Orange Goblin, Ordo Ignis Dei, Violation Wound/Cliterati, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Christiaan Bruin, Skylake, Hasse Fröberg, HFMC, Jolly, Inventions
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 60 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?
