The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
So my new computer arrived yesterday, two days early which made me very pleased indeed. However, then it all went somewhat pear shaped as I couldn't install my video editing software, and kept on getting irritating error messadges about something called XML4. However, as Graham had gone to bed by the time I stopped fiddling with the bloody thing, I left it on last night so as not to loose the error messages. In the night it apparently did a whole bunch oif updates, and now the programme appears to work perfectly. But rather than being complacent I am going to be even more diligent than I have been about backing up anything of even minor importance. I appear not to have lost anything from the last computer dying, but I have no wish to go back to the bad old days.
Now I am listening to Man Erg, and trying to put the Parish Magazine together.
Peace.
YER EDITOR SEZ: THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
You guys have been doing massive amounts of praying for Corinna. I believe that the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Find out more:
Blessed be.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Haendel - Sarabande
RICK WAKEMAN INTERVIEW
COHEN'S LAST WORDS
THE ORB WITH STEVE HILLAGE
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 eleven 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 #367/8
THE DEMOCRACY ISSUE
This peculiarly prescient issue features Alan at a Register to Vote gig in Todmorden, Jon discussing the unexpected result of his PIP application and the Toxteth Day of the Dead, Kev meets Tom Slatter, Graham describes the culmination of Hawkwind's 50th Anniversary Tour, and there is special news for fans of the late Robert Calvert.
Now THAT's what I call eclectic!
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Canterbury sans Fronieres AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Srange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and one from Mr Biffo, and one from C J Stone, and one from Neil Nixom but Roy Weard, is 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:
Marvel Comics, Watchmen, Alan Moore, Paul McCartney, Graham Coxon, Blur, Sharon Osbourne, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Pet Shop Boys, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sann Frontieres, The Merrell Fankhauser Show, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, RM djaduk ferianto Gregory, Jamarr Antonio Stamps (Bad Azz), Jan A. Byrczek, Gilles Bertin, Ivan 'Ivica' Maksimovic, Jan Erik Kongshaug, Michael Sherwood, Kehinde Lijadu, Vaughn Benejamin, Andrew Martinez (aka Wake Self), Robert Freeman, Rick Wakeman, Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris - Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, Icarus Rouff, Tony Beesley, 'Ignore Alien Orders – On Parole with the Clash’, Doug Harr, PAART, Alan Dearling, Amsterdam, Madam Bruno, Marco de Goede, Aja Waalwijk, Kev Rowland, Bob Mintzer Big Band - New York Voices, Bobby Sanabria Multiverse, Bullet for my Valentine, Canaan, Carptree, Centauro, Tony Klinger, C J Stone, Hawkwind, The Wild Colonial Boy, Jon Downes, Martin Springett
And the last few issues are:
Issue 365-6 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 363-4 (Focus)
Issue 361-2 (Martin Springett)
Issue 359-60 (Robert Hunter)
Issue 357-8 (King Crimson)
Issue 355-6 (Elfin Bow)
Issue 353-4 (Melanie S Jane)
Issue 351-2 (Royal Affair)
Issue 349-50 (Experimental Sonic Machines)
Issue 347-8 (Gary Duncan)
Issue 345-6 (RDF)
Issue 343-4 (Auburn)
Issue 341-42 (America)
Issue 339-40 (Kev Rowland)
Issue 337-38 (Zee)
Issue 335-36 (Raz)
Issue 333-34 (Nepal)
Issue 331-32 (Scott Walker)
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