The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
Today, I am very proud of my countrymen and women, of my friends, and of
the disparate collection of people whom I am in contact with on Facebook. The
events in Manchester the other night were, of course, despicable, but the
aftermath – in general – showed the people of this country up in a good light.
People from all across the social, ethnic, and political spectrum flocked to
help, but it was the reaction of the people I know on Facebook that particularly
moved me.
Now, before I go any further, I would like to stress that, I have no idea
who the vast majority of my ‘Facebook friends’ actually are. I have well over a
thousand people in that category, and although I exclude people that are obvious
scammers, I accept every other friend request that I get to facilitate the
greater community of both the CFZ and Gonzo.
I was expecting rants and tirades of bitter, xenophobic nonsense, and angry
written attacks on the British Muslim community at large. Yes, a few of the
people that I was expecting to come out with such reactionary bullshit did
exactly that, but the vast majority of people that I know exhibited deep veins
of compassion and sensibility, and just as happened in Manchester the other
night, the community online pulled together in a positive, empathic fashion. And
for once, even a dyed in the wool misanthrope like me is proud of his fellow
men. As somebody who is usually full of bile about the human race, that is
pretty damn good.
And before I leave, just let me wish my old friend Rob Ayling, the Gonzo
Grande Fromage, a very happy 50th birthday. I have known the dear boy for 30 of
those years and I am terribly fond of him.
And now, here is the news:
The Real John Lennon 2000 (full documentary)
RICK WAKEMAN IN THE NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY TO THE BIG CHEESE
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: For the Big Cheese
Gonzo Magazine #235
THE HOLY BROTHERS ISSUE
Dan Wooding writes about Jon Anderson and his brother who is in Holy
Orders. Alan reviews a book about The Band, John muses on the Summer of Love
demi-centennial, Richard waxes lyrical about TRADarr and Jon searches in vain
for the Lost Lennon Tapes...
And listen up Kiddies: It’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive,and
Strange Fruit. 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:
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The English Folk Dance and Song Society, Paul
McCartney, Giles Martin, Morrissey, Edinburgh International Film Festival,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Tom
McClung, Keith Mitchell, Powers Allen Boothe, Chris Cornell, Kevin Stanton, Rosa
Nell Powell, Derek Poindexter, Mary Hopkin, This Misery Garden, Martin
Stephenson and The Daintees, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Jon Anderson, Tony
Anderson, Alan Dearling, The Band, Summer of Love, John Brodie-Good, TRADarrr,
Kev Rowland, Karda Estra, Labyrinth, Lichtgestalt, Loathe, Mammoth Mammoth,
Markus Reuter, Sandy Huskisson, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin
Springett, Elvis, Nsync, 98 Degrees, Beatles, Bob Marley, Neil Nixon, Ivor
Cutler
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
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
please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
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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 57 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?
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