Much love and healing vibes to Dave and Lesley.
You are both in our thoughts and prayers
why?
BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU, YOU OLD BASTARD!!
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
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.
- Huge bald eagle missing in Gloucestershire
- Rare birds were poisoned say police
- Heat, water shortages affecting rare bird life
- Help rare seabird numbers take off on Chesil Beach.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS
The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Today I have gone through a rite of passage. I have bought my first
wheelchair. Coincidentally I also have the appointment through for my Disability
Assessment. I will admit to you guys that I am terrified.
I remember my Father saying - about the Army - that no matter how bad the
stuff that you are going through, there is always someone worse off. Well I am
feeling massively guilty this afternoon. Dave McMann - a friend of us all - is
in the middle of a medical emergency, and I had no idea until Corinna told me an
hour or so ago. I had been so tied up with my own problems that I hadn't
registered any of his. Our love and good vibes go our to you and Lesley. Whilst
on the subject of good vibes - Deanie I hope that your hamsters are ok, and
Martin and Marianne the same goes for Chloe the cat.
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if
you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
buy the CFZ 2016 Yearbook:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mick Farren - Play Wit...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
GONZO PEOPLE: Dave McMann
Arrival of The Flying Burrito Brothers in The Neth...
GERMAN BRAND X REVIEW
Gonzo Magazine #181
Beatles, Neil Nixon, Elton John, KLF, Bill Drummond, Bob Calvert, John
Russell, Star Wars, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion,
Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
This issue features Neil Nixon tells us about his new book covering the
Myths and Legends of The Beatles, we
talk to 4th Eden about his
new Atmospherik Mekanisms project, Alan talks to John Russell, guitar
improviser extraordinaire, John remembers the Bob Calvert Tribute Concert, Doug
muses on Elton John’s finest hour and Biffo asks Star Wars actors whether they
had ever smuggled a possum inside their costumes,
and there
are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, Friday Night
Progressive, and as it was full moon last week, Canterbury Sans Frontières. We
also have the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and 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 ouyside 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:
Bill Drummond, The Who, Octopus Syng, Radiohead, David Bowie, Corky Laing,
Mountain, Marillion, Arthur Brown, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mac
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Phil Ryan, Lars
Olof «Olle» Gustaf Ljungström, Doug Raney, The Beatles, Osibisa, Billy Cobham,
Wayne Kramer at the Pink Fairies, Al Stewart, The RAZ Band, The Flying Burrito
Bros, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Wakeman, Neil Nixon, Elton John, John Russell,
Alan Dearling, 4th Eden, Martin Eve, Roy Weard, Bob Calvert, John Brodie-Good,
Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Elvis, Barbra streisand, Abba, Nikola Tesla,
ArcAttack, William Burroughs, Ocelon
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 180 (Beltane)
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
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 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.co.uk
* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN - 0330 - Constantinople, previously the town of Byzantium, was founded.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
US ceases efforts to end global trade of polar bea...
The war on elephants
Carpageddon: Australia plans to kill carp with her...
New way to smell a rat means end for rodents
Yes, New York City Has Sea Turtles and Seals, and ...
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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)