THYLACINE NEWS

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Col Bailey has dedicated his life to the mystery of the Tasmanian tiger

Weekly Times Now

Col says he is now unsure whether that animal was actually a thylacine, ... It was from these trappers that Col learnt the sound a thylacine makes, ...

'Hypercarnivore' relative of Tasmanian devil found in remote Queensland fossil field

ABC Online

... discovered with the fossils of several other small to medium animals new to science — was in the size range of thylacines but much more "massive".

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN VISITS A NON EUCLIDEAN PART OF DEVONSHIRE

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday

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I feel considerably better today. An early night with a zopiclone, some cheese crispy things, and a free ebook of the complete works of H P Lovecraft (available from http://tinyurl.com/owsy377) and I feel right as a trivet. I am not too sure what a trivet is (trivets are often tripod-like structures with three legs to support the trivet horizontally in order to hold the dish or pot above the table surface) and I have no idea why my Grandmother always used to say that somebody was as right as one, but there you go!

There have been some changes to the Weird Weekend lineup, most excitingly with Alan Dearling now confirmed. Sadly Chris Thomas and Glen Vaudrey have cancelled. Richard, however, will be talking about almasty prior to our second excursion to Russa next year. I hope that I am wrong, but it is looking as if a mixture of apathy, happenstance, and the fact that nobody has any money due to the Government's austerity measures, will probably call time on the Weird Weekend, at least for a while after this year. I always said that I would do ten and this one will be the seventeenth, but I will still be disappointed of it has to end. Ticket sales are the slowest ever. I strongly suspect that it is because of the financial insecurity that so many people are feeling at the moment, but I hope that it will turn itself around in the next few weeks. This year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of  Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..

find out all about the Weird Weekend

http://www.weirdweekend.org

buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/jnke

And now for the news................

Kevin Ayers in "Wild Thing" music documentary

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/kevin-ayers-in-wild-thing-music.html

Peter Hammill interview 1978 (Van Der Graaf)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/peter-hammill-interview-1978-van-der.html

Rick Wakeman: CBN 1995

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/rick-wakeman-cbn-1995.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jefferson Starship "Ja...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/the-gonzo-track-of-day-jefferson.html

Gonzo Magazine #192

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

What happens when the keyboard player from Yes shares a stage with the guitarist from Queen?  Doug tells you all about it. Meanwhile, Alan is at the Edinburgh Blues and Jazz festival, our old mate Andy Roberts takes some acid (and Jon writes about it as well as asking whether the world of Narnia is sexist?) What other magazine gives you all this for free?

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Canterbury Sans Frontières, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. 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:

Steve Hillage, Keith Richards, The Beatles, Alan White, Bono, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Elton John, Queen, Boruch Alan Bermowitz (Alan Vega), Erik Petersen, Les Stocker, Bonnie Jean Brown, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown, The Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic Encounters, Richard Brautigan, Brian May, English Rock Ensemble, Alan Dearling, Ten String Symphony, Hillfolk Noir, Mr Sipp, Rad Trads, Jan Garbarek Group, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Andy Roberts, Roy Wood, The Eagles, Crosby, Still & Nash, The Monkees, Neil Nixon, The Cardboard Lung

                                                                                  

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 191 (Karnataka)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo191.html

Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo190.html

Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo189.html

Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo187-8-the-summer-holiday-special.html

Issue 186 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo186.html

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

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.

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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: 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?

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.

• Habitat needs of nestling, fledgling songbirds
• New data on bird population trends and the climate...
• Female birds call the shots in divorce

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Thursday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1821 - Peru declared its independence from Spain. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Scientists created zombie ‘Frankenturtles’ to disc...

New venomous snake discovered in Costa Rica

Lyme disease: You can't blame the deer

Greek heroic deity Prometheus now has a namesake i...

Sunburned dolphin spotted in Moray Firth

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)