The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
It has been a long week. Despite the fact that we were pretty much on
holiday, it has been more than slightly exhausting with Corinna driving just shy
of a thousand miles. These days, I am afraid, although I can still drive around
the village if I have to, the idea of me on motorways is not a nice one, and
anyway it was a hire car with only her as named driver.
No sooner was I back than the madness begun. This morning I was rung by BBC
Hereford and Worcester, who apologised for waking me up and asked me whether I
would like to comment on the peculiar cadaver that was found on the shores of
Loch Ness.
Luckily I had seen the pictures and managed to finger them as a hoax,
albeit a rather good one.
The “entrails” look like white pudding to me. So Corinna was spared another
drive up the entire length of what is still the UK in order to check out the
bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Ness. A good thing really...
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
GENRE PEAK REVIEW
RAZ REVIEW
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Kevin Ayers - Lady Rac...
And now I am on the want again. It is time, once again, for me to remind
you all about 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:
Gonzo Magazine #187-8
The last two weekends are covered by the bumper issue - The Gonzo Summer
Special with a mixture of old and new stuff for your delight and amazement! We
interview Bridget Wishart and Ian Jones from Karnataka, Alan goes to see Neil
Young, Erik Norlander's new album, John B-G goes on a pilgrimage to the West
Coast of America, Doug
eulogises Security Project, Orrin talks about German psychedelic folk, we
send the legendary John Hughes to a desert island, Jon reviews a book by and
about Frederick Forsyth and burbles on about British comics, we interview
Karnataka about a very special concert, while Corinna talks about shopping with
mother. Just another day chez Gonzo.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and 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
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:
Karnataka, Gorillaz, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Ringo Starr,
All-Starrs,Cliff Richard, Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox, Henry Campbell Liken
McCullough, Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman, Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM, Tom
Leppard, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band,
Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick Abrahams, Barbara Dickson,
Bridget Wishart, Spirits Burning, Peter Gabriel, Alan Dearling, Neil Young, John
Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, The Jungle Book, Roy Weard, Orrin Hare, Krautfolk, Mr
Biffo, Xtul, Hawkwind, John Hughes,Frederick Forsyth, Marc Bolan, Elvis, Mitch
Mitchell, Robert Johnson, Ginger Spice, Neil Nixon, Robert Calvert
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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?
