Wednesday, August 12, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SINGS

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
 
Oh what a tangled web we weave when… for the 16th year running we decide to host a very peculiar convention in the heart of the Devon countryside. Yes, boys and girls, tomorrow the great and the good of Forteana will be descending upon my home village of Woolsery demanding free drinks in my garden. And guess what? Those jolly nice folks at Metcheck, after having forecast quite pleasant weather have changed their minds, and - in Martin Eve’s words of doom – are now forecasting a deluge of Biblical proportions. However I think he was exaggerating when he foretold a plague of locusts, and boils all over the nether regions of the first born of the village. But I wouldn’t bet on it  
 
 
 
Daevid Allen, Spirits Burning, Gong, Don Falcone, Sophia Sage, Supertramp, Frank Zappa, Kate Bush, OMD, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#142) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning on the front cover together with an interview with Don Falcone by Doug about his collaborations with Daevid inside. Jon muses about Yes and fish (yes, the lower case f is intentional) and moans abput Paul McCartney whilst reviewing Alan Moore's latest. Doug also writes about Supertamp, John B-G talks about his memories of the Hammersmith Odeon, Lee remembers Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark. Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and one from those jolly nice chaps at Strange Fruit. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and water opossums with something to lose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials planning to pray to St Anthony of Padyua for an intercession, 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:
 

Yes, New Order, Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Hugh Cornwell, Keith Richards, System 7, Steve Hillage, Elvis Presley, Steve Hackett, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, George Cole, Billy Sherrill, Lynn Anderson, Cilla Black, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Daevid Allen, Don Falcone, Lee Walker, OMD, John Brodie-Good, Queen, Robin Trower, Frank Zappa, Kate Bush, Bob Dylan, Supertramp, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Dave Brock, Sophia Sage, Patrick Moraz, Jon Anderson, Jean Luc Ponty, Chris Squire, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Boy George, The Beatles, Neil Nixon, Barnes and Barnes, Slechtvalk
 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
 

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:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
 
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
 
* 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.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
 
* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten 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, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?
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ANIMALS & MEN #54


We would like to reassure everybody that Animals & Men #54 is well under way. However, at the beginning of the year, Jon promised a return to a quarterly publication schedule, but he was stupid enough not to realise that putting out a magazine during the run up to the Weird Weekend, or – indeed – in its immediate aftermath, would be nigh on impossible. So, be assured, issue #54 is on its way, but is going to be a little later than we had initially planned. Also be reassured that issue #55 will appear before Christmas.

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CFZ PUBLISHING: Going Mad to Stay Sane – out now!


The world's leading publishers of cryptozoology, forteana and fortean fiction, with over a hundred titles currently in print.

The latest post on the CFZ Publishing Group blog begins as follows:
The new edition of Going Mad to Stay Sane, Andy White’s seminal work on psychotherapy, is out now...
Click here to read the whole article.
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FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?

Well, everything, actually!

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.

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TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.
  • NEWSLINK: 'Black panther' prowls close to Essex fa...
  • NEWSLINK: Former Police Officer Left Shaken After ...

  • NEWSLINK: Big cat spotted in Derbyshire
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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1676 - "King Phillip's War" came to an end with the killing of Indian chief King Phillip. The war between the Indians and the Europeans lasted for two years. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
  • Miniature cottages prove the ideal nurseries for r...
  • Short-haired bumblebee numbers on the rise in the ...
  • Divers baffled by giant, mysterious mass off Turki...
  • New Golden Jackal species discovered
  • Seldom seen Straited or Hairy Frogfish takes a wal...

  • Predator from a tank: New water mite genus from br...

    • AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)
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