Wednesday, February 20, 2013

HIT PARADE FOR JANUARY (CFZ PRESS/FORTEAN WORDS)

UK

1=. The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia by Richard Freeman (1)
1=. In search of the Hexham Heads by Paul Screeton (-)
3. Haunted Skies Volume Four by John Hanson and Dawn Holloway (-)
4=. The Journal of Cryptozoology Volume One edited by Karl Shuker (4)
4=. Dark Dorset by Mark North and Robert Newland (-)
6=. Those Amazing Newfoundland Dogs by Jan Bondeson (2)

6=. Wildman! by Nick Redfern (5)
8=. Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker (4)
9=. Man Monkey by Nick Redfern (5)
9=. Haunted Skies Volume One by John Hanson and Dawn Holloway (2)


US

1. The Journal of Cryptozoology Volume One edited by Karl Shuker (-)
2. Cats of Magic, Mythology and Mystery by Karl Shuker (8)
3. Monsters of Texas by Ken Gerhard and Nick Redfern (4)
4. Extraordinary Animals Revisited by Karl Shuker (7)
5. When Bigfoot Attacks by Michael Newton (2)
6=. The Inhumanoids by Bart Nunnelly (-) 
6=. The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia by Richard Freeman (6)
8. Wildman! by Nick Redfern (1)
9. Weird Waters by Lars Thomas (-)
10. Landmark Northam by Jim Jackson (-)

Last month's positions in this pinky colour, which I think is called cerise. Sales are still strong after Christmas, quite possibly due to all the hard work Emsy has put in on the Facebook Group. Thank you honey.
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KEVIN AYERS OBITUARY AT MOJO

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Kevin Ayers possessed a voice like no other, intrinsically British and full of whimsy and mischief. This latter quality animated much of his life as well as his music.
Born in Herne Bay, Kent, in 1944, Ayers was raised in Malaysia before returning to England at the age of 12 where he attended Simon Langton Grammar School For Boys, later described as "a hotbed for teenage avant-garderie". His first band, The Wilde Flowers, formed in the summer of '63 and also featured Robert Wyatt andHugh Hopper, both of whom (along with Ayers) would have a huge effect on what became known as The Canterbury Scene.
By mid-1966 The Wilde Flowers had morphed into The Soft Machine and featured Ayers on bass and vocals, Robert Wyatt on drums and vocals, Mike Ratledge on organ and Daevid Allen on guitar - the latter, both older and wiser, and a key influence on Ayers. The band's sound evolved dramatically, as they began blending jazz influences and beat-inspired incantations to their psychedelic sound.
Appearances at London's UFO Club led to a French tour which proved hugely successful but which marked the departure of Allen who, being Australian and lacking the requisite visa, was denied entry back into the UK. He would, of course, remain in France where he formed Gong, while Ayers, Wyatt and Ratledge continued for the most part as a three-piece.
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THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Kevin Ayers (1944-2013)

The world is a far poorer place today
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DALE DRINNON: Scytho/Sarmatian sea monsters, Benny's Blogs, Cedar & Willow

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
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FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
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THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES SOMERSETS ON SOLID GROUND

Today has been a very strange one so far. I am very saddened at the death of Kevin Ayers, of whom I was a huge fan, but apart from that absolutely nothing has gone wrong apart from me losing my temper at an automated bank machine asking impertinent questions. But it still feels strange and otherworldly, and I feel like a spectator of my own peculiar life. I would like to thank Richard Stellar and Thom Woodruffe for their kind messages (in Thom's case a poem) to me about diabetes, and I would like to thank Graham, and even more so Corinna for putting up with me. Now, time to dust myself down and get on with the show.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Alan Dearling presents: A Pianist at St Pancras (and DOESN'T that sound like a P.G.Wodehouse title?)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/what-pianist.html
 
 
 

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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: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
 
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*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) 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 the orange cat?
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