The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
Yesterday was a strange day. Uncle Jon the
Psychedelic Psocial Worker was out on his rounds doing his inimitable thing, and
today all I want to do is hide in my office and listen to Fela Kuti. I have
already been interrupted by a dodgy looking bloke trying to sell me double
glazing, and I was surprisingly polite to him. I am not in the mood for
interactions with anyone outside my immediate family today, and intend to be as
insular and isolated as possible.
Karnataka, Simple Minds, Frank Zappa, vintage rock
biography, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#124) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Karnataka on the cover, and inside yours truly interviews the band's Ian
Jones. Doug writes about Simple Minds, and Jon critiques a rather peculiar
creature feature novel. Neil Nixon reports on an even stranger album than usual,
Wyrd goes avant garde, Xtul gets even more peculiar, and there are radio shows
from Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the
titular submarine dwellers are still lost at sea, although I have been assured
that they will hit land again soon. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and pademelons trying to choose (OK, nothing to do
with small marsupials having difficulty in making choices, 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:
George Tremlett, Jack White, The Rolling Stones,
Rihanna, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Cynthia Lennon, Preston Ritter, John Shuttleworth, Hugh Hopper,
Rocket Scientists, Tommy James, Birmingham Sunday, Inner City Unit, Mick
Abrahams, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding, Florence and the Machine, Brantley
Gilbert, Karnataka, Simple Minds, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Yes, Bill Bruford, Jon
Anderson, Jane Anderson, Wyrd Music, Xtul, Gracie Fields, Elvis, Justin Bieber,
Madonna, The Rat Pack, Bob Dylan, Starfish64, Neil Nixon, A A Allen,
Battlesoul
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
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!
* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange
cat 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 infantile
orange cat?
