THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Captain Beefheart Upon The My O My Old Grey Whistle Test 1974

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Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist and poet known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work..

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Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist and poet known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work..

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DOUG HARR REVIEW

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Rockin' The City of Angels Book - £50.00

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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?

NALOXONE vs FENTANYL

IT IS FOR THE K9s

but also for the overdosers

Drug sniffers tend to get affected

by even a small amount of opioids

So Naloxone is carried on police patrols

If it was Fentanyl that killed Prince

then both dogs and humans need be aware-

Ingesting ,sniffing,shooting or imbibing Fentanyl

(even a few grains subcutaneously administered

could,,like Truth,be too  much to handle.

If there is an epidemic of Truth,please

take adequate precautions,as advised by

both FOX and FAUX News sources.

Dilution is always better than prevention.

DO NOT OVERDOSE ON TOXIC NEWS ITEMS!

FAIRPORT CONVENTION IN THE NEWS

'We'll bop til we drop' Fairport Convention's Ric Sanders on group's 50th anniversary tour heading ...

Lancashire Telegraph

ON stage Ric Sanders is a Puck-like figure, eyes sparkling, fingers a blur as he brings his unique talents on the fiddle to Fairport Convention. Off stage ...

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Warsaw Pakt plays Dog Fight from Needle Time

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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?

It's not a hard thing to limit a person.

BEGIN WITH DIAGNOSIS

This can be helpful or destabilizing

when there is no social safety net

nor any effective education to rise up out of it

If you are autistic,or have ADHD or some version of PTSD

unless you have access to a support structure

the only change will be deleterious.Poverty is not noble.

Ignorance is less.Community means more than family.

Religion blesses,then moves on."The poor will always be with us"

If where you are is bonegrindingly poor-where can you move?

Bankruptcy seizes your possessions.Who can afford food?

Pills maintain some fragile balance.When they run out..

FRANK ZAPPA IN THE NEWS

	Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention LP 'Absolutely Free' Set For 50th Anniversary Reissue JamBase A 50th anniversary reissue of the landmark 1967 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention album Absolutely Free is coming later this year. Frank Zappa, Mothers' 'Absolutely Free' is Expanded - Best Classic Bands (blog) Sgt. Pepper's Iconic 50-Year-Old Album Cover - and Its Best Parody - Music Fest News (press release) Full Coverage
	Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention's Revolutionary 1967 Album, 'Absolutely Free,' Celebrates PR Newswire (press release) LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Zappa Family Trust will mark the 50th anniversary of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention's ... CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO Frank Zappa Frank Zappa is considered to be one of the most influential rock musicians of the late twentieth century. Between the start of his career in the late fifties and his death in 1993 he recorded and rele.. Read More Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention In 1965, Ray Collins asked Zappa to take over as guitarist in local R&B band the Soul Giants, following a fight between Collins and the group's original guitarist. Zappa accepted, and soon assumed.. Read More Frank Zappa et al On September 19, 1985, Frank Zappa testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music organizati.. Read More

San Francisco celebrates the 50th anniversary of the ‘Summer of Love’

San Francisco celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 'Summer of Love'

The Boston Globe

Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin also lived in the Haight. We stopped at All Saints' Episcopal Church, where an anarchist ...

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Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Joan Baez a

The sixties were a turbulent and at times violent decade. As the youth tried to break out of the confines set by the previous generation, the old were puzzled by the sometimes outrageous behaviour of ..

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GASTANK REVIEW

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Wakeman, Rick & Tony Ashton present: Gas Tank

Considering how bland, blinkered and boring coverage of music on British television has become, it's hard to conceive of a time when a programme like Gas Tank could exist. However, back in 1980 Channel 4 brought Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton together to basically jam with a succession of their famous mates once a week and film the whole shebang. General chit chat and 'interviews' were also part of the presentation but across these 3 CDs Gonzo Multimedia have brought together 52 tracks of mainly just the music; a few little song introductions and skits allowed to slip through.

The cast list is stellar, Wakeman, fresh from his second tenure with Yes, and Ashton, probably best known for his time with Ian Paice and Jon Lord in (you guessed it), Paice, Ashton and Lord, present throughout, backing the stars with their House Band. It's this factor that proves the ace in the hole here, for while some artists do perform their own, or their band's songs, they do so with different personnel, instruments and arrangements. Although for the main it's a selection of covers and classics that are jammed through in mighty fine style. You get ex-Thin Lizzy men Phil Lynott and John Sykes shining brightly on the light rock of "Growing Up" and "The Man's A Fool" from Lynott's second solo album, while hearing Suzi Quatro (who proudly and rather defiantly announces she's the only female to play an instrument across the full six episodes) rattle through "My Baby" and "CC Rider" with Steve Hackett on harmonica is too good to pass up. Hackett also appears under his own steam, excellent versions of "Camino Royale (Hackett To Pieces)" and "Hackett's Boogie" proving a highlight.

Wakeman takes solo centre stage sporadically, the chance to hear small, intimate takes on "Elgin Mansions", "Catherine Howard" and "Catherine Parr" a real joy. While Ashton provides comic interludes, his musical odes to "Cigarettes!" (cough, wheeze, hack, hack, cough), "Beside The Seaside" and a few other topics, chucklesome the first few times you hear them. Rick Parfitt turns up for storming, almost heavy honky-tonk versions of Quo tracks "Little Lady", where his vocals are immense and "Rain", by which time he's already blown his voice out, while John Entwistle adds a touch of class to "Twist & Shout" and aided by Steve Harley, "Go America". However with everyone from The Cimarons, The Strawbs, Donovan, Eric Burdon, Ian Paice and Alvin Lee, to Chris Farlowe Andy Fairweather Low, Godley & Creme, Maggie Bell, Ronnie Scott, Howie Casey and the irrepressible Frankie Miller, lending their talents, there really is an embarrassment of riches.

What lets the whole thing down is the slap dash way it's been put together. A previous pledge campaign saw DVDs of the show available – something sadly missing from this release, while the lack of any liner notes leaves you grasping to find any context to what you're listening to. The House Band are not even credited, and when given their performances that in itself is a real oversight. With the only images in the booklet being a few blurry stills from the TV show, with the musician's 'name caption' below them, the chance to really celebrate this collection of music is passed up for the decidedly cheap and just about cheerful option.

In truth it's all too easy to hear why Gas Tank didn't last. Everything feels a little pally-pally, a small studio audience adding a patter of applause to some famous names larking about in the most glorious of fashions. While the off the cuffness of the presentation in places can almost be as grating as the well rehearsed music undoubtedly is rewarding. If you're a completist of any of the artists involved in this 3 CD retrospective, then it's simply too good an opportunity not to hear them in these unusual, but still impressive circumstances. Even if, in many ways, this release is a huge and disappointingly missed opportunity.


Track Listing
Disc 1 Episode 1&2
1. GasTank Theme
2. Little Lady Rain
3. Catherine Howard
4. Raggy
5. He Gave Up To I
6. Cigarettes!
7. Heart Attack
8. Trying To Get Back To You
9. R 'n' R medley/Be Bop A Lula
10. Episode 2 Aeroplane
11. Man Smart, Woman Smarter
12. Wide Eyed and Legless
13. In The Midnight Hour
14. Gerrard Street
15. Catherine Parr
16. Blackpool's 1st Twist Victim
17. Crazy


Disc 2 Episode 3&4
1. TV Set
2. Growing Up
3. The Man's A Fool
4. Keyboard Adlib
5. Mellow Yellow
6. Lalena
7. Staring
8. Outta Windows
9. Stormy Monday Blues
10. Lucille
11. Episode 4 GasTank
12. I May Be Wrong (But I Won't Be Wrong Always)
13. Tell Me Baby What's On Your Mind
14. Resurrection Shuffle
15. Possibly
16. My Babe
17. CC Rider
18. Sweet Little Rock n Roller


Disc 3 Episode 5&6
1. I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
2. Mr Soft
3. It's Weird
4. The Hangman
5. Elgin Mansions
6. Jam & The Blues
7. Twist & Shout
8. Go America
9. Episode 6 Why Oh Why?
10. California Man
11. I Got My Eyes On You
12. Gone But Not Forgotten
13. He'll Have To Go
14. My Soul Wants to be with Jah…
15. Deep Pockets
16. Camino Royale (Hackett to Pieces)
17. Hackett's Bogie Hackett's Bogie (reprise)

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Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton - Gastank (3CD). 3CD £22.50. Release Date: 31 March 2017 Label: RRAW View artist page for Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton | View full product details

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Rick Wakeman and Various Artists - Gastank (DDVD). DVD £23.50. Release Date: 31 March 2017 Label: RRAW View artist page for Rick Wakeman and Various Artists | View full product details

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: George Harrison ~ Jai Sri Krishna

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

Songfacts - List of songs by Al Atkins

Songfacts - List of songs by Al Atkins

Songfacts - List of songs by Al Atkins List of songs with Songfacts entries for Al Atkins

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Demon Deceiver CD - £9.99

Reloaded CD - £9.99

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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?

BECAUSE IT MATTERS

WHAT YOU DO IN THIS LIFE MATTERS

i write poetry and petitions to you,my peers/my jury

You have a bucket of tears and a sliced bread of time

You can soak the bread in tears but it becomes useless

Bread is life .More than a metaphor.Being born is a start

But there are no guarantees.Goodwill is an elixir/like friendship

It is time to manifest .Let happiness reign!There will always be reasons

for anger,hurt,despair-to seep into our daily bread/making it useless.

Tears are necessary,but they are salt and hard to drink.

Waters of kindness,healing,compassion and love

are bandages for the broken,weary and hurt.

We know why we are here.It is to learn.

PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #114

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.

SHOW 214

4 June 2017

OMMADAWNS

Tony Bennett:  Let’s Begin

The Stargazer Lilies:  Sunday is Monday at Midnight

The Ex-Pistols:  Sex on 45

Groundation:  Babylon Rule Dem

The Dream Academy:  Waterloo

Mike Oldfield:  Ommadawn pt.1

The Jesus Abyss:  Blood on Reagan’s Hands

Rod Stewart:  I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face

Crystal Fairy:  Crystal Fairy

DJ Crystl:  Let it Roll

Aardvark:  Salty Dog

Judy Nylon:  Room Without a View

Cheech and Chong:  Basketball Jones

The Laurels:  Aerodrome

Monster Movie:  Into the Light

Mike Oldfield:  Return to Ommadawn Pt.2

Groove Armada:  Inside my Mind (Blue Skies)

The Plasmatics:  Lunacy

Barbara Lea:  Sleep Peaceful (Mr Used 

Gonzo Magazine #237

Gonzo Magazine #237

THE INTO THE WOODS ISSUE

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We go all Rashomon on you and publish two different reviews of Hawkwind’s triumphant return to The Roundhouse, Alan mans the Listening Post and Corinna hunts Lycanthropes in

Cornwall. Jon muses about Lightning, the Bay City Rollers and critiques the long awaited Roger Waters album, and Davey Curtis goes to see Dutch freakmusos My Baby!

And listen up Kiddies: It’s all free!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, and Strange Fruit, but Friday Night Progressive is having a week off. 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:

Elton John, Ringo Starr, Liam Gallagher, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Julian Dorio, Roger Waters, Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart, Brian May, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, John Noakes, Gregory LeNoir "Gregg" Allman, David Sidney George Lewiston, Martin Intalex, Mrs Raines, Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, John Brodie-Good, Hawkwind, Graham Inglis, Alan Dearling, Snarky Puppy, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Mike Vest and Bong, Blown Out, Spokes, Davey Curtis, My Baby, Kev Rowland, Ronny Whyte, The Room, Rozvitaus, Sectunefor, Richard Foreman, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Martin Springett, Bay City Rollers, The Monkees, Fall Out Boy, Lady Gaga, Alice Cooper, Sid Vicious, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Jimi Henrix, Neil Nixon, Bette Davis, Roger Waters

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 236 (Manchester)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo235.html

Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo235.html

Issue 234 (Al Atkins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo234.html

Issue 233 (Richard Strange)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo233.html

Issue 232 (Roy Weard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo232.html

Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo231.html

Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo230.html

Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo229.html

Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo228.html

Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo227.html

Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo225-6.html

Issue 224 (Hibernal)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo224.html

Issue 223 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo223.html

Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo222.html

Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo221.html

Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo220.html

Issue 219 (Martin Stone)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo219.html

ac Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo218.html

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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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: Renée Fleming: Casta Diva (Bellini)

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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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?

WORDS AND IMAGE SWIM TOGETHER

IT IS SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

Like two dolphins.Like movies with sub-titles

Like aerial advertising(sky-writing)

Like smoke signals,semaphore,emojis

Like every art with a catalogue

A picture is a visual word

Check out petroglyphs and hieroglyphs

Symbolic languages  are representational

Like computer codes(which can also be music charts)

Words are lonely without art.Hence,annotated Bibles..

Illuminated Manuscripts.Within the thin frame of your alphabet

Meanings resonate/visually and verbally.Do not separate these lovers-

word and image have been together since before we came out of caves.

They are both together-part and apart.Half a heart.

https://www.theguardian.com/…/louder-than-words-drawings-of…

Louder than words: the drawings of mute artist Susan Te Kahurangi King

From Fantaman to Donald Duck and the Queen, the New Zealand artist has spent the last 60 years drawing her own world in detailed and sometimes luridly…

theguardian.com

John Lennon - Rare Full Interview (09/24/1980)

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In Pursuit of Happiness DVD - £10.99

FAIRPORT CONVENTION IN THE NEWS

Fairport Convention are heading to the Plowright

Gainsborough Standard

British folk legends Fairport Convention are live at the Plowright Theatre next week as part of their 50th anniversary tour. The band were credited with ...

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Live At Maidstone Castle 1970 DVD - £7.99

COMING THIS WEEKEND

Dr. John Interview at UConn

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Zu Zu Man
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Daevid Allen & Robert Wyatt in the Film ‘Playa de Formentor’ (1964)

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Daevid Allen

Australian beatnik Daevid Allen was a founder member of Britain's earliest psychedelic band, Soft Machine.He departed from the band after the release of their first classic single Love Makes Sweet Mus..

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Daevid Allen and Friends

Australian poet and musician Daevid Allen, born in 1938, moved to Europe in 1960, inspired by the writings of the ‘Beat Generation.’ After a year or so in Paris he arrived in the UK in 196..

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Daevid Allen and Kramer

Whichever way you look at it, Daevid Allen is one of the most interesting and enigmatic characters in modern music. An Australian, he was working in a Melbourne book shop when he discovered the writin..

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FAIRPORT CONVENTION IN THE NEWS

Catch legendary Fairport Convention on their 50th anniversary tour in Sandwich

Kent Online

The band, who won a coveted BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, will play at St Mary's Arts Centre in Sandwich, as part of the Folk in the Barn series, ...

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique (Mariss Jansons conducts, Proms 2013)

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I, Berlioz
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THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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?

PUBLIC PERFORMANCE POETRY June 2017

FOR THOSE WHO FELT THAT SPEECH WAS DEAD

Consider Tony Walsh(Mancunian)whose public performance

of a poem he had  written for previous attacks on Manchester

rallied  the best and brightest of those in his community

who had tended the wounded,cared for the  broken

and exhibited such humanity worthy of epic poetry.

Now "I have no words"Ariana Grande will return to Manchester

with a benefit concert for the survivors-and Tony's poem

will be amplified via BBC and world media.Every village need a poet.

Manchester has many-but the poignant and necessary healing

chose Tony Walsh to articulate antidotes to grief and horror.

Calls for strength,courage ,co-operation,community and commitment

still ring in the ears of all who need to hear-from Manchester and beyond.

There is another role for public poetry-it is for healing

THANK YOU,TONY WALSH.Thank you,Manchester..

Tony Walsh added 2 new photos.

· Prestwich, United Kingdom ·

So, er, yeah. Blimey.

Such a gracious invitation from a superstar and her team to a tiny, independent artist - to perform my poem This Is The Place at the huge rememberance concert that Ariana Grande has arranged in Manchester this Sunday. 50,000 in the stadium, live on BBC tv and radio and around the world. Global news coverage to follow too, I imagine.

Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Take That, Tony Walsh, Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Pharell, etc etc.

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