BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

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.

• Biologist reveals important role cities play in co...
• Mapping movements of alien bird species

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN THANKS GOODNESS IT IS FRIDAY

The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday

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And so the soap opera of Life with the Downeses continues apace. I went to the clinic yesterday, and they are pleased with the progress of my foot, and the ulcer does appear to be healing. However, for reasons that I don't entirely understand, I now have a bloody great surgical stocking on and look far more afflicted than I did back when amputation seemed like a definite possibility.

 

As you may remember, we have been driving Julia's car for the past few months, but now - I am afraid - it has given up the ghost and we are all looking for another vehicle to tide us over until I can get tenants into my house in Exeter and stop haemorrhaging away my dwindling resources.

 

Hey ho.

 

And here is the news:

 

Mick Farren Frost Show Freakout When Hippies Foole...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/mick-farren-frost-show-freakout-when.html

COMING THIS WEEKEND

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/coming-this-weekend.html

PINK FAIRIES Live 1973

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/pink-fairies-live-1973.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_20.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Daevid Allen & The Mag...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-daevid-allen.html

 

 

Gonzo Magazine #217

THE FINALLY WE GET BACK TO WHATEVER PASSES FOR NORMAL ISSUE

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We talk to Doug Harr about his exciting new book about Los Angeles rock concerts, Alan meets Kelbassas, John remembers the Human Be In, Roy looks forward to another year with That Legendary Wooden Lion, our old friend Kev Rowland returns with more reviews, and The Famous Five give up the Booze plus Hawkwind news, The Gardening Club and gum boots full of more...

 

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, 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 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:

 

Glenn Hughes, Black Country Communion, Radio Stars, U2, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Who, David Bowie, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Tony Iommi, Kelly Osbourne, Fleetwood Mac, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Peter Eardley Sarstedt, Edward Leilani "Eddie" Kamae, Armando "Buddy" Greco, Lamar Dupré Calhoun, Tommy Allsup, Anthony "Tony" Booth, Larry Steinbachek, The Pioneer Cabin Tree, Absolute Elsewhere feat Bill Bruford, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Atomic Rooster, Lord Buckley, Tony Ashton & Jon Lord, Adrian Legg, Rocking' the City of Angels, Doug Harr, Alan Dearling, Kelbassas, John Brodie-Good, The Summer of Love, The Human Be-In, Kev Rowland, Its.True.Mentality, Izz, Jolly, Karnataka, Konchordat, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Robert Calvert, Martin Springett, Enid Blyton, Bill Haley, The Beatles, Elvis, Beatles, Neil Nixon, Cosmic Rough RiderS

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo213-4.html

Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo213-4.html

Issue 212 (Greg Lake)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo212.html

Issue 211 (Phil Collins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo211.html

Issue 210 (Nico)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo210.html

Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo209.html

Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo208.html

Issue 207 (Tibet)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo207.html

Issue 206 (Raz)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo206.html

Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo205.html

Issue 204 (Gas Tank)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo204.html

Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo203.html

Issue 202 (Gong)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo202.html

Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo201.html

Issue 200 (Deep Purple)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo200.html

Issue 199 (Yes)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo199.html

Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo198.html

Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo197.html

Issue 196 (Paul May)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo196.html

Issue 195 (Dave Brock)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo195.html

Issue 194 (Auburn)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo194.html

Issue 193 (Genre Peak)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo193.html

Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo192.html

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.

 

 

* 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 57 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Friday/Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1841 - The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Mysterious fossils find place on the tree of life

Cat trapped in Stranraer recycling bin - via Tabit...

Elusive Ruby Seadragons Show Off on Camera for Fir...

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.)