The Gonzo Daily - Friday
Richard arrived yesterday evening, and will be
staying until Sunday. Graham is off to see his Mama in St Albans, which - I have
to admit - that apart from the fact Graham's family live there, and was
mentioned once in a song by Al Stewart, is a place I know absolutely nothing
about, so I am totally unable to write anything witty about it. All sorts of
exciting things are in the offing, including (but not restricted to) a Mike
Davis recording and mastering session, Saskia's first big assault on the
conservatory ably supported by a gang of young people of various ages, and maybe
a couple of middle aged hippies. Her plans are exciting ones, and suggest that
the conservatory is gonna be fit for visitors for the first time in years. The
first lot of work on Corky Laing's deliciously funny memoirs has now been
finished, and will be dropboxed to the great man today. Its all go
here!
The new issue of Gonzo Weekly, in its swish new
format, will be out tomorrow, and features interviews with Andy Colquhoun and
Cyrille Verdeaux, with the second part of my conversation with Joey Molland
about the glory days at Apple Records. There are also features on Rpcket
Scientists, what happens when The Psychedelic Warlords collaborate with Michael
Moorcock and a look at music written by Jews whon died in the death
camps.
The current issue is still available featuring Tim
Blake, Craig High from the Psychedelic Warlords, Cyrille Verdeaux goes native,
plus Acid Mothers Temple, Joey Molland remembers working with John, George and
Ringo, Mice on Stilts, Steve Hillage and more news, reviews, views, interviews
and and London Zoos (OK, no metropolitan menageries, 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!!! We are also relaunching with a brand new layout and
format for our 70th issue. We hope that you like it.
To make sure that you don't miss your copy of this
and future issues make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
http://eepurl.com/r-VTD
PS: If you are already a subscriber but think that
you haven't been receiving your copies please check your spam filters. For some
reason known only to the Gods of the internet, some e-mail programmes
automatically count the magazine as 'spam' probably because it comes from a mass
mailer. Either that or they are just jealous of our peerless
content
PPS: WARNING: If you are If you are a subscriber
using Outlook, Hotmail or Outlook Express, some previous issues of the magazine
may come out with formatting errors.
* 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.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* 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 54 who - together with an orange kitten named after a
song by Frank Zappa puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a
tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and
sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 the orange kitten?
Posts
