The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
Today I did something spectacularly idiotic. I am working on a new edition
of the autobiography of a spectacularly talented lady, and—as I always do—I was
cross checking spelling of all the proper names which I came across. I could
have sworn that when I looked up one particular politician mentioned in the book
on Wikiwhatsit, that it said that he had died back in 2011. So I wrote to the
author asking whether she wanted me to acknowledge the fact of this guy’s
demise, and she wrote back to me—shocked—thanking me for having informed me of
his death.
I am sure that you can all guess what is coming next.
I sent her the relevant page on Wikiwhatsotand she wrote back saying that
it didn’t mention anything about this chap having died. And yes, the was right.
It hadn’t.
I immediately assumed, that as this dude was a politician, someone had done
a piece of malicious editing on the online encyclopaedia, which—of course—is not
unknown. Even I have done it, but only to play practical jokes on my friends,
and I have had it done to me with a far more malicious motive.
But when I looked in the historical list of edits I could find nothing of
the sort.
So it appears that I had simply misread the whole bloody thing and caused
grief and upset to my client for nothing. I wrote back apologising and she
(being as gracious and kind as she is talented) immediately forgave me for my
idiocy (although, of course, she didn’t use such a vulgar term).
And now for the news................
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Gonzo Magazine #204
In this week's exciting edition, Doug goes behind the scenes of Rick
Wakeman and Tony Ashton's legendary TV show Gastank. We have a sneak preview of
the long awaited new Pink Fairies album, and also reveal news about the new Al
Atkins record. Jon and Corinna go to see Focus, Davey goes to see Robin Trower,
we have amazing graphicy bits from Martin Springett of The Gardening Club, Jon
muses upon Budgie, and Alan goes to the Berwick Film Festival...
Good ‘ere innit?
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:
Bob Dylan, Prince, Rod Stewart, Radiohead, Motorhead, Led Zeppelin, Strange
Harvest, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Fergus David
Edward Miller, Don Ciccone, Michiyo Yasuda, Rick Wakeman, Martin Stephenson and
The Daintees, Archie Fisher & Barbara Dickson, Binky Womack, Arthur Brown,
Nils Lofgren, Jackie Lee, The Pink Fairies, GasTank, Alan Dearling, Berwick Film
Festival, Davey Curtis, Robin Trower, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul,
Martin Springett, The Gardening Club, Budgie, Mr Fibby, Louis Armstrong, Cliff
Richard, N.Sync, Cavern Club, The Beatles, Hieronymus Bosch, Henri Chopin
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)
Issue 202 (Gong)
Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
Issue 199 (Yes)
Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
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:
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journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
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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 57 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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