The Gonzo Daily – Thursday
My garden is only about a third of an acre, but it needs a lot of work.
When my Father was alive he could afford a gardener. One of them - long dead now
- was called Mr Shaughnessy so obviously he was known by me and my compadres as
"Old Shagnasty". God knows what happened to him, but as he would be well into
his nineties now he would probably be less than optimum use. However, this talk
is academic because I couldn't afford him anyway. The latest incumbent is a
charming young lady called Deanie (Nadine) who WW regulars will remember from
last year as the pretty fourteen year old with blue hair. She is now a pretty
fifteen year old with very short hair and she has been working very hard in the
garden this afternoon. The bed around the top lawn (the circular one) is
beginning to look like a flower bed again rather than a uncharted jungle
somewhere in Southeast Asia. She was not particularly impressed by the two dead
slow worms she found, but that is life.
Last night was the first Weird Weekend meeting, and I would like to
publically thank the Phillipson family for all they have done, all they are
going to do, and all they are doing. My team of previous years has scattered
like dust in the wind for a whole string of reasons (some of which I perceive as
admirable others less so) and I have a whole new team for this year. I hope that
I am wrong, but I have a sneaking suspicion that after seventeen years, this
will be the final Weird Weekend, at least in its present form.
Ticket sales for this year's Weird Weekend are the slowest ever. I strongly
suspect that it is because of the financial insecurity that so many people are
feeling at the moment, but I hope that it will turn itself around in the next
few weeks. This year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant,
sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of
Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and
featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It
would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..
find out all about the Weird Weekend
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
And now for the news................
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Carnaby Street Interview - Michael Des Barres
Gonzo Magazine #191
We interview Ian Jones from everyone’s fave Welsh rockers Karnataka, Doug
muses on Rush, Alan grieves for music venues under threat, John goes to see
Santana, and Jon expounds on hippydom and reviews a book by John Lennon’s
mistress, while Biffo goes Ghostbusting!0
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a
thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to
do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
The RAZ Band, John Shuttleworth, Yoko Ono, Dolly Parton, Jon Anderson,
Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman, David Gilmour, Meat Loaf, Led Zeppelin, Robert
Plant, Jimmy Page, Randy California, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Steven Young, Danny Smythe, Gladys Hermiston-Hooper
(née Nash), Arthur Brown, The Beatles, The Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic
Encounters, Richard Brautigan, Karnataka, Ian Jones, Rush, Alan Dearling, John
Brodie-Good, Santana, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, John Lennon, May
Pang, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Glastonbury, Paul McCartney, Neil
Nixon, Cantona,
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)
Issue 182 (Wally)
Issue 181 (Beatles)
Issue 180 (Beltane)
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
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!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock
journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
* 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.co.uk
* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, 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
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 kittens?
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