The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
And so another week trundles to a close. It was a week that saw my eldest
stepdaughter Shoshannah here to celebrate her Mama’s birthday, and—as always—she
left a great big gap in our emotional landscape when she went home again.
What else has happened?
Ummmmmmmm.
The most important thing, I suppose, was the release of issue 57 of Animals
& Men, the magazine that I started twenty two years ago and named after a
track from the first album by Adam and the Ants.
For those who are not aware, we changed the membership package of the CFZ
over a year ago, with members now getting a monthly email newsletter. The
magazine is available FREE to read or download online as a Flipbook magazine in
the same format as Gonzo Weekly, and also for sale as a Kindle ebook and the
traditional hard copy format. I think we must be doing something right because
now we are getting readership figures of 15,000 plus each time.
Check it out:
Yay us.
So what else has happened?
Ummmmmmm.
Archie went to the vet for an allergic skin condition, Graham has nearly
finished repairing my house in Exeter, and I discovered that the new album by
Radiohead is really rather terrific, and joins Bowie’s swansong at the top of my
personal hit parade for this peculiar year.
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:
And now for the news................
Al Stewart Interview with Alan Barnes 2/10/11
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Crazy World of Art...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Wacky Beatles tribute 'All This and World War II' ...
Gonzo Magazine #190
In this week’s bumper countercultural issue we interview Erik Norlander
about his excellent new album Surreal, John watches Jefferson Starship, Doug
attends the same event and waxes lyrical about the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair,
Alan muses on the Free Stonehenge Campaign and raves about Jimmy Cauty’s ADP
Riot Tour (yes, that is Rockman Rock of the KLF as was), we send Martin "The
Gardening Club" Springett to a desert island, Jon raves about G P Ching,
remembers the seventies, and eulogises the new XNA album, and Biffo gets
involved with Pick’n’Mix!
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 although the irrepressible Corinna is taking a week
off. 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 Who, Syd Barrett, Terry Bozzio, Leonie Scott Matthews, Muhammad Ali,
John Blackwell, Paul Simon, Carole King, Prince, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Caroline Mary Aherne, Robin St. Clair
Rimington Hardy, Donald Ernest "Don" Friedman, , Arturo, Rick Wakeman, Arthur
Brown, The Beatles, The Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic Encounters, Richard
Brautigan, Erik Norlander, Haight Street Fair, The Battle of the Beanfield
Remembrance, Wally Hope, John Brodie-Good, Jefferson Starship, Mr Biffo, Nick
Nicely, FREE STONEHENGE, XNA, Ian Anderson, Tir Na Nog, 71 Sunset, Roy Weard,
Xtul, Martin Springett, Neil Nixon, Caravan
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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.
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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?
