...BECAUSE SOME OF US THINK THAT THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT
What happens when you mix what is - arguably - the world's most interesting record company, with an anarchist manic-depressive rock music historian polymath, and a method of dissemination which means that a daily rock-music magazine can be almost instantaneous?
Most of this blog is related in some way to the music, books and films produced by Gonzo Multimedia, but the editor has a grasshopper mind and so also writes about all sorts of cultural issues which interest him, and which he hopes will interest you as well.

Sunday, 30 September 2018
PLAYLIST: 26 -08-2018 – SHOW 273 – LONG STRANGE TRIP #1
Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample.
The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks).
Neil Nixon, the founder and presenter of the show has released a book about rare albums for Gonzo Multimedia.
The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight.
26 -08-2018 – SHOW 273 – LONG STRANGE TRIP #1
Big Album – V/A Sacred Rhythms (Visionary Shamanics label)
WTF – Malcolm Muggeridge talking to Salvador Dali
Get-a-Long – Cranium Pie Mechanisms 2 side three of original vinyl
Mood Six: Just Like a Dream
Curved Air: Rob One
The Infinite Trip: Fall into Earth
Hypnotizer: Where is the Chillum?
Ken Nordine: Spectrum
The Yardbirds: Glimpses
The Ilk: Red Sky at Night
Malcolm Muggeridge: Dali’s Moustache
Laraaji: Unicorns in Paradise
M.A.K.U Sound System: Canto Negro
Blue Forest: Far Mountain
The Jesus Abyss: Sound Therapy
Vashti: The Train Song
Holy Glories: In Your Tower
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Fresh Air
Cranium Pie: Glimpses Into The Eleventh/And So It Unfolded/Black Tree
Midwinter: The Skater
Bubu: Suenos de Maniqui
Visionary Shamanics: Psydraft and Advanced
The Animated Egg: Expo in Sound
David Crosby: I’d Swear There was Somebody Here
26 -08-2018 – SHOW 273 – LONG STRANGE TRIP #1
Big Album – V/A Sacred Rhythms (Visionary Shamanics label)
WTF – Malcolm Muggeridge talking to Salvador Dali
Get-a-Long – Cranium Pie Mechanisms 2 side three of original vinyl
Mood Six: Just Like a Dream
Curved Air: Rob One
The Infinite Trip: Fall into Earth
Hypnotizer: Where is the Chillum?
Ken Nordine: Spectrum
The Yardbirds: Glimpses
The Ilk: Red Sky at Night
Malcolm Muggeridge: Dali’s Moustache
Laraaji: Unicorns in Paradise
M.A.K.U Sound System: Canto
FAIRPORT CONVENTION IN BANBURY
Fairport Convention headline the
revamped folk festival in Banbury
Headlining on Saturday night will be Fairport
Convention. Their eponymous festival at Cropredy, pulls in audience members
from all over the world.
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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Pagan/Wicca - Earth Air Fire Water Elemental Chant
Being Sunday I always post sacred music. The name of the deity may change, or even the deity Him/Herself but the spirit remains the same.
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
MAY WE DWELL IN THIS ONE?
Stretch it out like a lizard in the
sun
So it lives longer by seeming
slower
Like lives in a village or a country
town
Like that Scottish woman of 109 who
subsists
on a diet of porridge and no men.Like
TITANIC-
a mass grave now picked clean by
tourists and the rich
who collect experiences ,and stack them
like pinned butterflies
to show who owns and who controls.We
know
Life is the winner/when obstacles shift
for each volunteer
who gives more than we need,to "shake
the Heavens more just"
If NOW is all there is/may it be long
and wide and deep as oceans
that can no longer hide their wrecked
pasts,but deliver them up
like parcels from AMAZON,or some
ancient civilization
that died without a name,when language
was only sung and spoken,
and no recording devices heard either
Rumi,Jesus or Socrates.
Poetry still holds us in her memories
as a relative.Everything is relative.
Friday, 28 September 2018
Gonzo Weekly #305-6
Gonzo Weekly #305-6
THE SAUCERFUL OF WASSNAMES ISSUE
In another fantastically fab issue, Kev and Jon bid a fond farewell to
Maartin Allcock, Graham has a shufti at the reactions to the new Hawkwind album,
Alan looks at art from beach litter, and conducts a Listening Post with Kyle
Mew, Jeremy checks out Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, John goes to see David
Crosby, and Jon burbles on about Erich Kastner, Michael Moorcock and Bojack
Horseman.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Canterbury sans
Frontieres AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev
Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard AND Mr Biffo but the
irrepressible Corinna is 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:
Erich Kästner, Bojack Horseman, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Chas Hodges,
Cruise to the Edge, Peter Hook, Joy Division, Damon Albarn, Suede, Gary Numan,
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Jeremy Smith, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery
Hour, Max Bennett, Wesley Tinglin, Cecil James McNeely, Buren Bayaer, Denis
Mostyn Norden CBE, Felton Pruett, Charles Nicholas Hodges, Dudley Sutton, Man,
Binky Womack, Rick Wakeman, Essra Mohawk, Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun, Alan
Dearling, Litter Cubes, Kev Rowland, Maartin Allcock,Richard Foreman, Swanage
Folk Festival, John Brodie-Good, David Crosby & Friends, Kyle Mew,
Streetlight Manifesto, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Childish Gambino,
Andrew Jackson Jihad, Mariachi El Bronx aka The Bronx, Random Hand, Jonathan
Coulton, Brothers Moving, Gogol Bordello, Fake Problems, Downriver Dead Men Go,
Earthless, Epos Nemo Latrocinium, The Fierce and the Dead, Flesh Hoarder,
Frequency Drift, Frontline, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Chris Stone, Hawkwind,
Coldharbour Diaries, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett,
Michael Moorcock, Spirits Burning, Neil Nixon, Vincent Gallo
And the last few issues are:
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!
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 TRACK OF THE DAY: Liberace and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
OFFSHORED/OFF PLANET
WE CAME FROM THE STARS
&our thoughts are in the
sky
We fly between continents
One will pay to fly higher
Our thoughts are already
there
Thanks to science fiction
When we arrive we will ask
Is this our Final
Destination?
From Moon to Mars to Space
Bases
To colonies and mining
camps,too
We have been IN SEARCH OF SPACE for a
long time
Will our bodies make it
through?
HAWKWIND NEWS
Hawkwind's 'Road to Utopia' is a
transcendental throwback
... musicians who make up Hawkwind now are newcomers
(save for founding member Dave Brock), I would have suspected that this
record was some ...
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Thursday, 27 September 2018
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Steve Hillage ~ Activation / Glorious Om Riff
ERIK NORLANDER IN THE NEWS
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Sonic LAB: IK Multimedia Uno Synth
Review
Uno Synth came about with the input of synthesist
specialist Erik Norlander, who has a pedigree (including the fabled
Alesis Andromeda). Uno Synth ...
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Sonic LAB: IK Multimedia Uno Synth
Review
Uno Synth came about with the input of synthesist
specialist Erik Norlander, who has a pedigree (including the fabled
Alesis Andromeda). Uno Synth ...
LEONARD COHEN NEWS
Celebrate Leonard Cohen's Birthday
With This Stunning 'Hallelujah' Cover
Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah” is, by all accounts,
a modern-day classic. It has been reinterpreted to great acclaim by the likes of
Jeff Buckley, Rufus ...
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Heart With No Companion: Remembering
Leonard Cohen
It's no surprise I should be listening to the Leonard
Cohen on what would have been his 84th birthday if for no other reason than
it's a safe bet I'm .
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Review: Ballet Jazz Montreal's Dance Me
pays tribute to native son
Leonard Cohen is one of Canada's greatest and most
enduring ambassadors of the arts. His novels, poetry and songs are loved and
celebrated ...
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Reporters' Notebook: Sept. 21, 2018
OLAF FUB SEZ: Advice from Canadian poet and songwriter
Leonard Cohen, born on this date in 1934, “Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be ...
DANCE ME: Leonard Cohen set in motion — brand new ballet, bold and beautiful
CALGARY — Seventeen Leonard Cohen songs segue
together seamlessly in Dance Me, Alberta Ballet's latest pairing of modern music
and motion ...
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
MY BEST BOOKS ARE BANNED BOOKS
MY BEST (CHILDREN's)AUTHORS
SUFFERED CENSORSHIP
Were punished in their life
and posthumously-from Shel Silverstein
J K Rowling,Roald Dahl,Anne
Rice,Stephen King,J D Salinger,J R R Tolkein-
never forgetting Judy
Blume,Madeleine L'Engle,S.E.Hinton,Phillip Pullman,
Harper Lee,Stephenie
Meyer,Sonya Sones,Lynda Madaras,Jay Asher,
Alex Sanchez,Amy
Sonnie,Brian K Vaughn,Madonna,Garth Nix,
Toni Morrison,Stephen
Chbosky,Paul Zindel,Jeanette Winter,R.L.Stine,Mary Shelley,Hedy
Lamarr,
Maurice Sendak,Maya
Angelou-even Anonymous(who wrote GO ASK ALICE!
Upon review-all these books
became children's essential texts/adopted and adapted
into movies,plays and
themes.Prohibition increases the value of the forbidden.
Unless-like Nazis and the
Taliban,you are buying your books for burning
and even that is in Ray
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451!(BANNED!
According to the ALA,
the books that were banned and challenged most between the years of 2000 and
2009 are:
1. Harry Potter
(series) by J.K. Rowling
2. Alice series by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3. The Chocolate War by
Robert Cormier
4. And Tango Makes
Three by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
5. Of Mice and Men by
John Steinbeck
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings by Maya Angelou
7. Scary Stories to Tell in
the Dark (series) by Alvin Schwartz
8. His Dark Materials
(series) by Philip Pullman
9. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r
(series) by Lauren Myracle
10. The Perks of Being a
Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
SPIRITS BURNING REVIEW
http://www.jpsmusicblog.com/ 2018/09/new-progressive-rock- releases-from-deep.html
Progressive/Space rock band Spirits Burning are collaborating with science fiction/fantasy writer Michael Moorcock on the band's latest album "An Alien Heat." The new16-track set takes one of Moorcock's latest literary novels and turns it into a space rock opera. It is also the first Spirits Burning album to feature the work of Albert Bouchard, founding member of Blue Oyster Cult. The band begins with the hard rock, guitar-driven energy of "Hothouse Flowers" and the slower, thumping rhythm of "Geronimo." Singer Ann Marie Castellano takes the lead on the vocals of the dark, moody vibe of "Soiree Of Fire," before shifting gears for the folk/rock appeal of "Fall In Love." The album continues with the experimental electronic soundscape of "Dark Dominion" and the sonic space rock of the seven-plus minute adventure of "To Steal A Space Traveler." Spirits Burning showcase their softer side on the ballad "Learning The Art," before finishing their new album with seventies rock style of "Back To 1896" and steady pace, lyric driven closer "Old Friends With New Faces." To find out more about Spirits Burning and their latest release "An Alien Heat," please visit earthlink.net/~falcone
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Spirits Burning is one of the most unique entities in the space rock galaxy. The group consists of one main member, Don Falcone, and many other participants from various bands and projects...
Healthy Music In Large Doses is the latest offering from the Spirits Burning space rock collective, this time featuring keyboardist Cyrille 'Clearlight' Verdeaux. Clearlight is a project of French son..
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Spirits Burning is one of the most unique entities in the space rock galaxy. The group consists of one main member, Don Falcone, and many other participants from various bands and projects...
Healthy Music In Large Doses is the latest offering from the Spirits Burning space rock collective, this time featuring keyboardist Cyrille 'Clearlight' Verdeaux. Clearlight is a project of French son..
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
YES feat. ARW in the news
Yes
Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman Release
In
2016, former Yes members Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman
formed their own version of the band. They've taken the act on the road ...
Yes - The Yes Album: Album Of The Week Club Review
Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for hi..
Starmus is a festival of music and astronomy on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It is the brain child of Garik Israelian (the astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational..
On this extraordinary album, legendary keyboard player teams up with an Italian singer named Mario Fasciano. Stavros Moschopoulos writes: 'Recorded on the Isle of Man, the CD contains 8 new..
With special guests Various artists including: Ian Paice, Rick Parfitt, Steve Hackett, Andy Fairweather Low, John Entwistle etc..
Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known f..
Musician, producer and former Yes member Billy Sherwood has put together what he’s dubbed “the biggest super group of progressive rock players ever assembled,” to form ..
26 tracks in all, of which 10 are previously unreleased (these including an epic version of Matthew the Man - live in Tokyo 2001 and Beijing - widescreen remix from Iona, and other unreleased tra..
Yes - The Yes Album: Album Of The Week Club Review
First released in February 1971, Yes's third
full-lengther “felt like the first real Yes album” according to Jon
Anderson. With Peter Banks having left, ...
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Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known for hi..
Starmus is a festival of music and astronomy on the beautiful island of Tenerife. It is the brain child of Garik Israelian (the astrophysicist who led the team which found the first observational..
On this extraordinary album, legendary keyboard player teams up with an Italian singer named Mario Fasciano. Stavros Moschopoulos writes: 'Recorded on the Isle of Man, the CD contains 8 new..
With special guests Various artists including: Ian Paice, Rick Parfitt, Steve Hackett, Andy Fairweather Low, John Entwistle etc..
Richard Christopher 'Rick' Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboard player and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes. He is also known f..
Musician, producer and former Yes member Billy Sherwood has put together what he’s dubbed “the biggest super group of progressive rock players ever assembled,” to form ..
26 tracks in all, of which 10 are previously unreleased (these including an epic version of Matthew the Man - live in Tokyo 2001 and Beijing - widescreen remix from Iona, and other unreleased tra..
THE FALL: life imitates whassname
A giant mural of Mark E Smith is being
painted on the side of a chippy in Prestwich
Influenced by Can, Captain Beefheart, The Stooges
and The Velvet Underground, Smith gave up his job as a shipping clerk at Salford
docks to ...

IAIN MATTHEWS IN THE NEWS
Pasadena Nightlife this Weekend
Iain Matthews is an English singer-songwriter and
founding member and vocalist of Fairport Convention. His contributions to their
first three albums ...
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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Inner City Unit - Raj Neesh Live - Oxford 21-12-85
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
THE GATHERING OF SHADOWS
WE COUNTED THE
MISSING
in order to forget
them.Reformed our Webs
to tighten
formations.Sought out Points of Light
before they were
extinguished by ennui /enervated/exponentially
Choice @the
Crossroads@Midnight.
Nobody wants to buy your
soul for Fame
is as disposable and
dispensable as breath.
Someone else will fill /fit
the frame.Some younger name
will re-form the
band/re-issue re-mixes for retro-demographics.
Originals were on tired
formats.Scratches added to CDs.
Autotuned vocals with
reverb.Cut the speeches.
Crowds all have cameras
now.Their Third Eyes blinking in the Dark.
It does not matter you were
there.Cameras watch.Like China's Social Credit scores.
Or a football riot where
everybody is bored.Even the drunks ignore the score.
What really happened is
sold as NOTHING REALLY HAPPENED@ALL.
Sunday, 23 September 2018
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Westminster Abbey - Oh God Our Help in Ages Past (glitch free)
Being Sunday I always post sacred music. The name of the deity may change, or even the deity Him/Herself but the spirit remains the same.
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?
I HAD A CAT CALLED 'DOG'
i was adopted by her
she saw me as a stray
and decided to love me
more
she followed me around
i had to care for and feed
her
she became my albatross
my lucky charm/my
Doppleganger
my boss/my full-time
caretaker
whenever i felt trauma
Dog was there to calm me
down
One day,when i was sitting on the
porch
She attracted my attention.Once she was
sure
that i was watching,she departed this
life. I am sure
she is still watching.
HAWKWIND NEWS
The Blackheart Orchestra to support
Hawkwind
Manchester prog rock duo The Blackheart Orchestra have
been confirmed as support for Hawkwind on the space rockers' forthcoming
UK tour.
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SHUTTLESTUFF
Graham Fellows to play Wolverhampton
Graham went on to create John Shuttleworth and achieve his dream of becoming a famous figure on the theatre circuit including festival performances ...
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