The Gonzo Daily: August 2019

Friday, 30 August 2019

Gonzo Weekly #353/4

Gonzo Weekly #353/4
THE EVEN STRANGER ISSUE
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In this peculiarly psychedelic issue we meet the lovely Melanie S Jane, Alan goes to see Andrew Weatherall and Luke Vibert , Doug critiques Simple Minds, Kev meets the Bob Lazar Story, Graham brings us news of the new Hawkwind album, Jon watches the Beatles-based fantasyfisck Yesterday, and describes the new book by Green Rupert Read. And there is oodles more...

Groovy eh?

Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Strange Fruit, there are columns from Kev Rowland and Mr Biffo, C J Stone, and Roy Weard, but Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for 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:

Yesterday, The Buddha of Suburbia, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown, Jon Anderson, Raymone Bain, Michael Jackson, Shaun Ryder, Ozzy Osbourne, Noel Gallagher, Paradise 9, Essra Mohawk, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Anne Grete Preus, Fulati Gidali, Celso Piña Arvizu, Mikhail Borisovich Romanov, Samuel Lawrence Taylor, Peter Henry Fonda, Ange Didier Houon, Freddy Bannister, (sometimes written as Freddie Bannister), Reb Foster (Born James Dennis Bruton, Neal Casal, Mitch Podolak, The Fall, The Fall's Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney, John Denver with the Mitchell Trio, Man, Justin Hayward, Nico, Michael Bruce, Kev Rowland, Matt Deacon, Bob Lazar, Melanie S Jane, Doug Harr, Simple Minds, Alan Dearling, Acid Ketchup, Luke Vibert, Andy Weatherall's Solstice Weekend, Greenrose Faire, Odin's Court, Twelfth Night, Tony Klinger, C J Stone, Graham Inglis, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, "This Civilisation is Finished", Rupert Read, Bon Iver,
Samuel Alexander

And the last few issues are:

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Mark E Smith on music, politics and refugees

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Fall,The

Mercurial performer, Mark E Smith, auditioned for a number of heavy metal bands but finding his musical tastes far more eclectic, formed The Fall in 1977. The Fall provided Mark with a far bette..

The Beatles funny interviews

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The Beatles: Myths and Legends
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CORKY LAING IN THE NEWS

Rock Drummer Corky Laing at Canio's

Hamptons.com

Corky Laing's Letters to Sarah is a rock autobiography chronicling his successes and struggles and using excerpts form letters he wrote to his mother ...

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Corky Laing

Canadian born Corky Laing has been in many groups including, Bartholomew Plus III, Energy and more notably Mountain. Corky has also played with a legion of famous musicians including, but not limited ..

Corky Laing and the Perfect Child

London, UK - Mountain meets bioethics! Legendary Mountain drummer Corky Laing teams up with two internationally acclaimed philosophers (Prof. Matti Häyry and Dr. Tuija Takala) in this joint effor..

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

"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?"

YOUR LIFE SENTENCE

THREE SCORE YEARS&TEN

To imprison one self in flesh

longer than a life sentence

makes no sense.Of course-torture

extends the possible harm done.

Hanging,drawing,quartering

or waterboarding 183 times.

I would confess to espionage.

(even though the only secret i know is Victoria's..

It makes no sense -solitary confinement/neglect

Even Epstein's warders bored and sleeping

Turn prisons back into factories

Make something productive with yr pain

Civilizations rise fall and decay within 5000 years

And you know they will not be back again

Like ships sailing out to sink/Titanic in their dreams

Cells holding journalists are obscene.FREE THEM!

Let scribes,writers,poets have the freedom to dream

that kindness and compassion open doors to prisons

And the very last jail is our own limitations

(and even that has a Statute..

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City

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Flying Burrito Bros,The

Although this band are undoubtedly known for their first two albums when they were fronted by Gram Parsons it is a little known fact that various configurations of the group appeared on and off until ..

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - Something

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The Beatles: Myths and Legends
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Fairport Convention & Matthews Southern Comfort - Bonus Interview | Tony Palmer Films

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Fairport Convention And Matthews Southern Comfort

Fairport Convention is the world’s leading exponent of British Folk Rock, having virtually invented the genre in the late sixties. The band was formed in the mid-sixties by Ashley Hutchings but ..

Interview with Hawkwind HRH Prog 2018

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Space Ritual Live - Special Edition
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Space Ritual Live
2CD1DVD - £19.99

JON ANDERSON NEWS

Never Stop: a Musical Interview with Jon Anderson

Stereophile Magazine

Vocalist Jon Anderson has been at the center of the fabled rock band Yes since its founding in 1968 and has collaborated with other notable artists ...

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Jon Anderson

Jon Anderson began his career with British pop combo, The Warriors. From here he was briefly a solo artist and went under the name Hans Christian Anderson. Shortly after meeting Chris Squire in 1968, ..

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

SPACE DEFINES US

SPACES DEFY US

Perimeters,ellipses,like holes in skin

are essential components of patterning.

We are defined as much by absence(haiku

as by presence(sonnet.Power may be @core

but it is also @edges.Relationships are paramount!

We -squares and rectangles/Universe-spirals,circles ,ellipses.

Comparative geometries-Sacred vs Secular.

Merchant barns vs poetry .Sumerian inventories vs Japanese stone gardens.

Shock of fragility.Spaces where we disappear/fascinate.

Hence icons,symbols,markings like branded cattle.

I am sure Jesus would not like crucifixes.

Why mention powers?Geomancy ,feng shui,hold sway..

Stone circles stand,defining crop circles

We walk between worlds.MIND THE GAP!

Mind the Gap

Gillian Darley

Mind the Gap | LRB

I can’t explain why, in the face of all the seductive images and lyrical descriptions of the new Tintagel footbr...

I can’t explain why, in the face of all the seductive images and lyrical descriptions of the new Tintagel footbridge, I’ve become fixated on a small incision slashed through the surface of the walkway in the middle of the bridge. I know it’s technically the meeting point between the two cantilevered segments, a 40 mm expansion joint in an impeccably engineered structure. But it struck me forcibly that the seemingly reassuring surface connecting clifftop to clifftop, strung in tension over the dizzying void below, had been cut. It gave me a nervous charge. Was this an actual moment of the sublime?

Tintagel Footbridge | William Matthews Associates

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Kevin Ayers - Luk Alloo interview

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Kevin Ayers featuring Ollie Halsall

When Kevin Ayres died a few years ago many of us mourned. John Peel wrote in his autobiography that 'Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it. ..

Kate Rusby Interview @ Beverley Folk Festival 2016

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Kate Rusby

Kate Anna Rusby (born 4th December 1973) is an English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, Barnsley. Sometimes known as The Barnsley Nightingale, she has headlined various British national folk..

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Kev Rowland

Kev Rowland is a self-confessed music addict, who has never really been the same since he heard ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ in 1975. In the Eighties he spent quite a ridiculous amount of mone..

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

EMOTIONAL BUDGETING

IF LOVE &ART&HEALING WERE IMPORTANT

Then Libraries,Parks,Gardens would be fully funded

They are not,and Festivals in our Parks steal our passive use

into a commercial proposition-for damage caused-money given..

But Parks and Gardens need curating and time to pause between footprints

Same with Libraries-they are de facto Community Centers

and could help homeless instead of banning their packs and animals

Funding would see facilities like showers attached,so reading

could be a passive activity as reprieve from these heated streets

Community means respecting all of us-not just commercial customers

Our Libraries,Parks and Gardens need financial support to stay open

Our Police Force is the most expensive in Texas.

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Clarence White With The Kentucky Colonels in The Farmers Other Daughter

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Kentucky Colonels,The

The Kentucky Colonels were a popular bluegrass band in the 1960s. They included Clarence White, later with The Byrds. The White brothers started out as the Country Boys in 1954, with their brother Eri..

Monday, 26 August 2019

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: James Brown People,get up and drive your funky soul

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown, Jr. (May 3th 1933 – December 25th 2006) was an American recording artist and musician. One of the founding fathers of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century popular mu..

Was The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown the first ever concept album?

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Arthur Brown

When the God of Hellfire returned to the stage in the United Kingdom after a strange anabasis in Texas when, together with Jimmy Carl Black (the Indian in the Mothers) he was painting houses for a liv..

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AUBURN: Irish review

Auburn Game Of Faith Scarlet/Gonzo

This artist is Liz Lenten who is based in England and who recorded in Nashville for this album. She is joined by the legendary Thomm Jutz, (Nanci Griffiths, Mary Gauthier), who produced and played guitars, Mark Fain on bass (Ry Cooder, Ricky Skaggs), Lynn Williams on drums (Delbert McClinton, Lee Roy Parnell, The Wallflowers) and Britt Savage on harmony vocals (Garth Brooks, Crystal Gayle). Quite a line up and the song themes focus on a range of reflections around trust. Lenten lost her voice some years ago and in rebuilding her career she has had plenty of reason to put her faith and trust in the power of music to pull her through.

The new release features a strategy-based card game which is something of a departure from the normal promo props one is used to seeing – mind you, my advance copy didn’t include the card game so I can only ponder its powers! Lenten has an unusual vocal delivery which may not suit all tastes but she certainly sings with a unique character and conviction and songs like I Drank and Misshapen Fruit show a quirky edge. This is her fifth release since 2011 when Auburn reunited after taking a career break in order to raise families.

There is a range of influences here, from the Western swing of Trinidad to the roots groove of Red Velvet Pillow, I Don’t Love Him and Float To Blue. Spoke In The Wheel and It’s Not Love carry a more commercial, contemporary sound while the Country feel of Like I Do and the acoustic atmosphere of His Arms both soothe the senses. The title track is influenced by the blues, as is the Bad Girl, Good Woman song arrangement. The playing is superb throughout with understated feel supporting the song structures and a ‘less-is-more’ touch on the entire project.

Review by Paul McGee

Lonesome Highway, Irish magazine/website
https://www.lonesomehighway.com/music-reviews/2019/8/7/ytn3ewurhuuyv333t319rtauvvf4rv (review) CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO # Auburn Liz Lenten formed AUBURN in the summer of 1999. Their first gig was at the jam-packed launch party of Scarlet Records held at the salubrious and smoky Madame JoJo’s in Soho to a..

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

TO LAUGH AND TO WEEP

To respond to an impossible world

by claiming back one's own reactions..

To allow oneself the full range of possible expression

It may seem absurd or surreal/even inappropriate

but absurd surrealism LIVES!Whether children in cages

or 24 hour solitary confinement..These things should not be-

but they are,and we can start to diminish their power

by both reacting and responding to such mad"realities"

War is a crime,same as mass murder.CABARET laughed

at the arrogance to those who would harm others.Surrealism,too

from Goya to Bunuel,shows the absurdity of cruelty to humanity.

To change-we need to change.Start with our eyes/proceed to our heart.

Use art.Poetry.Mime.Dance.Every impossible story can have its ending changed

Like Armageddon as a Disney movie.Star Trek over Star Wars.

"It is never too late to have a happy childhood"

Sunday, 25 August 2019

JON ANDERSON REVIEW

Coverage: Jon Anderson played progressive rock with retro and modern flair at the Vilar on ...

Vail Daily News

As co-founder of the 1970's and '80's progressive rock band Yes, Jon Anderson continues to advance Yes hits while releasing his own. Wednesday ...

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Jon Anderson

ESSRA MOHAWK: lived sex, drugs and rock 'n roll life

Essra Mohawk lived sex, drugs and rock 'n roll life

The Ledger

The tie to the Mothers of Invention, the dramatic, soaring and sometimes discordant group led by unpredictable legend Frank Zappa is important in this ...

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Love Is Still the Answer
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Sandy's Album Is Here At Last
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BARBARA DICKSON: to headline Proms in the Park in Glasgow

Barbara Dickson to headline Proms in the Park in Glasgow

Evening Times

MUSIC legend Barbara Dickson OBE will headline this year's BBC Proms in the Park at the Glasgow Green. The singer will be the star attraction at the ...

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Barbara Dickson

As a multi-million selling recording artist with an equally impressive Olivier-Award-winning acting career, Barbara Dickson OBE has firmly established herself as one of the most enduring and popular e..

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: It is 'He' (Jai Sri Krishna) - George Harrison (Subtítulos Español - HD)

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

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

EPSTEIN LIVES!(&ELVIS LIVES!

And so does Leonard Cohen/and Prince

David Bowie and Janis,Jim and Jimi

Every presence conjured up via Woodstock Centenary

coupled with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

News is always a mixture of fact and fantasy

Who can trust the weather report?

So if a story stays with you-like UFOs and ET Plus-

allow Reality to be Altered via Fantasy Island..

Conjure up a Garden of Heavenly Delights-

Make one in your Living Space

Even when the weather changes

Your Garden Lives!(if only in your mind...

Thursday, 22 August 2019

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Selecter - On My Radio (1979) (With Lyrics) (HQ)

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Selecter,The

The Selecter are a 2 Tone ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in mid-1979. The Selecter featured a racially diverse line-up. Their lyrics featured themes connected to politics.Reinforcing ..

Supertramp - Interview with John Helliwell & Peter Henderson (Live in Paris '79)

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Supertramp

Available for the first time on DVD. 'EXTREMES' is the 1971 film Directed by Tony Klinger, Mike Lytton. It covers the whole gamut of present day human behaviour, from carefree pop fans bathing nude at..

BEATLES: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Song Discussion

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The Beatles: Myths and Legends
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STEVE HILLAGE EN PASSANT

Prog rock stars visit Stevenage record shop

The Comet

There was a record signing session by guitarist and producer Steve Hillage at Revolution Records in Stevenage Old Town on Saturday afternoon.

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Steve Hillage

Steve Hillage first came to prominence as a member of the multi-national rock band Gong, appearing on successful albums such as Angels Egg and You. After Sharmal, his final album with the band, ..

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:

School massacres,sex trafficking,corruption..BUT

seeking solutions and panaceas/those who

decide to "add to the sum of Light"in this world..

Recognize them by their gentleness/smiling through circumstance

Elevating all via example/actions and words consonant.

Tonight@Drink n Ink,she (new to this circle)exclaimed

her joy @finding human beings playing together co-operatively.

Of course-diversity.More than poetry-art,photography,music,plays,stories

Each stepped up as in an ancient circle /and shared their visions

Tonight the theme was PASTICHE-next month STALWART

Directed energies expressed fresh ideas /individually and collectively

If we are to survive,we need to learn creative adaptation/improvisation

If we are to share,we need to offer all our being/individually and collectively

So we do.And we did.And we will again.When next we meet-@DRINK n INK!

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Friday, 30 August 2019

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Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap | LRB

Tintagel Footbridge | William Matthews Associates

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

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