Now the most complicated, stressful, and sometimes
the most rewarding week of my year has begun. It started with the advent of
Davey Curtis insisting that I drink wine with him. It continues with news of a
long tailed blue in Suffolk, and I fear that the Weird Weekend juggernaut is
bearing down upon me.
As I said, all bets are off.
Daevid Allen, Spirits Burning, Gong, Don Falcone,
Sophia Sage, Supertramp, Frank Zappa, Kate Bush, OMD, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That
Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look
out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#142) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning on the front cover together with an
interview with Don Falcone by Doug about his collaborations with Daevid inside.
Jon muses about Yes and fish (yes, the lower case f is intentional) and moans
abput Paul McCartney whilst reviewing Alan Moore's latest. Doug also writes
about Supertamp, John B-G talks about his memories of the Hammersmith Odeon, Lee
remembers Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark. Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst
the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show
from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and one from those jolly nice chaps
at Strange Fruit. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and water opossums with something to lose (OK, nothing to do with
small marsupials planning to pray to St Anthony of Padyua for an intercession,
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:
Yes, New Order, Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Hugh Cornwell, Keith
Richards, System 7, Steve Hillage, Elvis Presley, Steve Hackett, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, George Cole, Billy Sherrill, Lynn Anderson, Cilla
Black, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Daevid Allen, Don Falcone,
Lee Walker, OMD, John Brodie-Good, Queen, Robin Trower, Frank Zappa, Kate Bush,
Bob Dylan, Supertramp, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Dave Brock, Sophia Sage, Patrick
Moraz, Jon Anderson, Jean Luc Ponty, Chris Squire, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes,
Boy George, The Beatles, Neil Nixon, Barnes and Barnes, Slechtvalk
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, and a small kitten 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, 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, and the adventurous kitten?
A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 
