Friday, October 19, 2018

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS STILL PRAYING

The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
 
YER EDITOR SEZ:
 
It is one of those days. I hit the ground running before I was completely out of bed when a client rang, and it has been like that ever since. Listening to "Blood on the Tracks" I have spent the day so far troubleshooting computer stuff, trying to sort out a big cat investigation in Staffordshire, and occasionally stopping to breathe.
 
In CFZ news, I hope that Lars Thomas' book about the mystery land animals of Scandinavia and the Baltic States will be uploaded today, and over at Gonzo the first volume of Kev Rowland's The Progressive Underground is also imminent.
 
And at Fortean Fiction my latest novel - 'Zen and Xenophobia' - vaguely a sequel to 2015's 'The Song of Panne', is just about to have the dozen or so formatting errors fixed, and - again - will be out by Monday. I would warn you that if you are of a nervous disposition, or easily offended, you will find parts of this book both offensive and upsetting. There is sex, violence, drug abuse, occultism, pornography, firearms, politics, religion, and not a little sociology. But there is also love, kindness, faith, and redemption.
 
All I would say before bidding you farewell is Caveat Lector. And I'm not providing a footnote for that, because if you don't know what that means then you probably shouldn't be reading the book.
 
Back to Corinna, she is still largely pain free, and continues to be the magnificent woman I have always known that she was. Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Being at the receiving end of such a torrent of positive vibes is a truly wonderful and humbling experience, and it is one of the main things that keeps us going.
 
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY:  AMERICA - Ventura Hig...
LEONARD COHEN THINGUMYBOBS
HAWKWIND NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
BARBARA DICKSON  IN THE NEWS
 
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And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
 
 
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eight whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
 
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?
 
 
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
 
Gonzo Weekly #307-8
THE I ONCE HAD A CAT CALLED CORNELIUS ISSUE
 
In another fantastically fab issue, We meet Michael Moorcock and talk about his new collaboration with Spirits Burning, Richard is shocked by a hologram of Roy Orbison, Alan goes to see Toots and the Maytals and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, King No One and Beth McCarthy, and Rob goes to see Corky Laing of Mountain, while Graham brings us up to date with the world of Hawkwind.
 
#Hail Eris!
 
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev Rowlands,  though Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard AND Mr Biffo AND the irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, 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:
 
Jamie Margolin, Chris Packham, Jilted John, Ken Worthington, Glenn Hughes, Bart Lancia, Marillion, David Bowie, Ike and Tina Turner, Peter Hook, Prince, Corky Laing, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Martin Ash, Joseph Kamaru, Hugo Raspoet, John Von Ohlen, Geoffrey E. Emerick, Charles Aznavour (born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian), Peggy Sue Gerron, Jerry González, Charles Geoffrey Hayes, Kim Melius Flyvholm Larsen, Tulsidas Borkar, Otis Rush Jr., Zang Tianshuo, Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald), Mike Weiley, John Wicks, Maria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé i Folch OIC OAXS OMFRG LH OMIR, Hamiet Bluiett, Bernadette Carroll (born Bernadette Dalia), Al Atkins, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Spirits Burning and Michael Moorcock, The Gardening Club, Michael Moorcock, Alan Dearling, Alexandra Palace, Toots and the Maytals, Don Letts, Richard Stellar, Roy Orbison,Jimi Hendrix, Tupac, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, Ronnie James Dio,  Hemelvaart Bier Café, Zach Lount, King No-one, Beth McCarthy, Kev Rowland, Deafening Opera, Godsticks, Anthrax, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Coldharbour Diaries, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Hugh Walters
 
And the last few issues are:
 
Issue 307-8 (Michael Moorcock)
Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
 
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!
 
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* 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 59 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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