Tuesday, August 16, 2016

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOLDS IT TOGETHER

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
 
Yesterday was completely insane. We lost a speaker, gained another one, all dealt with all sorts of drama. Without mentioning any names, in the last ten days we have had four attempted suicides, someone rushed to hospital with heart problems, someone else facing bankruptcy, Exeter City Council threatening to sue me, someone who DID sue me turning up unexpectedly in the village shop, the death of an old Nemesis of mine, an unpaid electricity bill, several dysfunctional families being more dysfunctional than usual, a whole slew of hangovers, a bottle of red wine tipped on a white carpet, problems with flight connections, Torridge District Council being particularly intransigent with someone who isn't me but could have been, failed insurance fraud by an old and dear friend, a damaged kneecap, and unorthodox use of tree lopping shears. And that is just for starters. I was talking to Dan Holdsworth yesterday and he now understands why I really want to give the WW a rest for a while, and why I start smoking again every August.
 
find out all about the Weird Weekend
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This year's Programme
 
And now for the news................
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: "Awaken" - Jon Anderso...
On the Level - With Rock Star Rick Wakeman (from t...
HAWKWIND INTERVIEW (2016)
Arthur Brown's Ladies of The Crazy world of Arthur...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
 
Gonzo Magazine #195
 
The good people of Seaton pay tribute to Dave Brock of Hawkwind, Doug goes to see LCD Soundsystem, Jon muses on legendary unreleased music and wonders why so much of it is crap, Alan visits Ladies Day at the Festivals, and we look at a new book on Crass
 
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:
Dolly Parton, Tony Iommi, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples, Adam Lambert, Gregg Allman, Jack White, Rolling Stones, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Padraig Duggan, William Edward "B. E." Taylor, Richard Fagan, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Hawkwind, LCD Soundsystem, Alan Dearling, Kosfest, Ladies Day, Julia Quinn, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Xtul, Crass, Elton John, Elvis, Bob Marley, Alberta Casey
                                                                                  
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
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)
 
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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