THE COLDHARBOUR DIARIES: Judy and the aliens

https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

I have just released a digital album, and—partly as an experiment to see if what people say about the current state of the music  industry—and partly to stoke my massive ego, I am actually trying to promote it for a change, but sharing my experiences with you guys in readershipland...

I am quite au fait with the fact that the universe keeps on bowling us curveballs, but a link between my album and a British UFO conspiracy? Surely not...

Read on...

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.

• What homebody island birds could tell us about ada...
• Exotic birds loose in county after naughty goat br...
• Nightjars back at RSPB headquarters
• The glossy ibis invasion continues
• St Albans mural aims to brighten up area and raise...
• Spain’s mission to save the White-headed Duck
• Ladakh’s revered bird is under threat from human’s...
• Record-breaking numbers of UK's rarest seabird ret...
• Grasshopper sparrows return to Katama plains
• Two Indigo Buntings Hatch at Smithsonian’s Nationa...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GOES DOWN TO THE END OF THE TOWN AND IS BACK IN TIME FOR TEA

The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/

YER EDITOR SEZ:

Much to my chagrin I discovered yesterday that the syndication programme which I use to make sure that blog posts are proliferated onto the appropriate Facebook pages had gone wrong. It appears that all the hoo hah with GDPR earlier in the year should have resulted in me being sent a notice telling me that I needed to update all the Facebook and Twitter priveliges. Needless to say that no such notice was ever received, and thus a large proportion of what should have been posted to social media wasn't.

Oh how we laughed. We didn't actually, I just swore a lot, and ranted about idiotic bureaucracy until Corinna brought in tea, and I completely forgot all about it.

And so the saga of my new record trundles on and on. I received a very interesting snippet of knowledge the other day. According to one of the books by Joan Aitken, a cold harbour was an unofficial place of safety, maintained by vagrants and vagabonds. I had been reading Aitken’s Cold Shoulder Road whilst I was mixing the album. However my old friend Judy Ja’afar one time head honchess of BUFORA (the British UFO Research Organisation, if you didn’t know) thought I was being crafty in my titling:

“Project Cobra Mist run out of Orford Ness and East Anglia bases leased to America. Allegedly pulled in 69/70 but continued under the name Cold Harbour. There is much to tell, but not on here.”

Art imitating life again..

And the record can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

There is no further news about Corinna. She needs more tests, and so the waiting game continues. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers...

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-day-john-lennon-died-2010.html

The Day John Lennon Died (2010 Documentary)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/eric-burdon-animals-and-beyond-awesome.html

Eric Burdon - The Animals And Beyond (Awesome Docu...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/ladies-and-gentlemen-mr-leonard-cohen.html

Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-yes-owner-of.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY:  Yes - Owner of a Lone...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_31.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/coming-this-weekend_31.html

COMING THIS WEEKEND

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AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

Our webTV show:

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And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:

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And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

Gonzo Weekly #299/300

THE RESPECT IS DUE ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

In another fun packed and spectacularly Gonzoesque issue, Doug goes to see Bow wow wow and ABC and Belinda Carlisle and more at Retro Futura, Alan loves Courtney Barnett's new album, and looks at the return of the Necessary Animals, Jon bitches

about Fake News and praises snarky online book critiquing, Graham examines a Hawkwind rarity that isn't and there is poetry

from Thom and Josephine Dunn.

#Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there are columns from all sorts of folk including Kev Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard BUT the irrepressible Corinna AND Mr Biffo are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, 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:

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Richard Thompson, Caravan, Curved Air, ULU, Phil Collins, Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Linda Mkhize, Jose Carlos Almenar Otero, Majid Al-Majid, Jett McKee (Scepaz), Navid Izadi, Randall Desmond Archibald, Aretha Louise Franklin, Rick Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural Gas, Doug Harr, Alan Dearling, Courtney Barnett, Josephine Dunn, Kev Rowland, Acherontas, Alight, The Amorettes, Andrew Neu, Auri, Axel Rudi Pell, Agnostic Front, Hell to Pay, Necessary Animals, Stephen Clarke 1980, Roy Weard, C J Stone, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Ana Mardoll, Neil Nixon, Charlotte Gainsbourg

And the last few issues are:

Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-299-30.html

Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo295-6.html

Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo294.html

Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo293.html

Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo292.html

Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo291.html

Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo290.html

Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo289.html

Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo288.html

Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo287.html

Issue 286 (Monty Python)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo286.html

Issue 285 (ELP)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo285.html

Issue 284 (Straqngelove)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo284.html

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)

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 58 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 -   1823 - Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French forces entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Bengal cat receives first feline hip replacement s...

Australia has a new venomous snake -- And it may a...

Seeing through the eyes of a crab

Bumblebees thrive in towns more than countryside

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)

THE COLDHARBOUR DIARIES: A whale of a sale!

https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

I have just released a digital album, and—partly as an experiment to see if what people say about the current state of the music  industry—and partly to stoke my massive ego, I am actually trying to promote it for a change, but sharing my experiences with you guys in readershipland...

Read on...

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

Loch Ness 'more than just Nessie legend'

BBC News

A tourism initiative says it has looked "beyond the monster legend" to find reasons for people to visit Loch Ness. VisitInvernessLochNess (VILN) ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN CONTINUES TO WAIT

The Gonzo Daily: Thursday

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/

 

YER EDITOR SEZ:

 

I have to say that playing at being a record company mogul is both entertaining and frustrating. I truly have no idea how Gonzo Multimedia Grande Fromage Rob Ayling does it. Or even why he would want to. But I can proudly say that I can no longer say that I have not sold any copies of the new album Coldharbour.

 

When I came downstairs this morning I opened my e-mails to find that I have actually sold one, and I am unreasonably pleased about the fact.

 

Hooray!

 

And it can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

 

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

 

There is no further news about Corinna. She needs more tests, and so the waiting game continues. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers...

 

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-louis-hector.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Louis Hector Berlioz: ...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/yes-alumnus-news.html

YES ALUMNUS NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/barbara-dickson-in-news_30.html

BARBARA DICKSON  IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/yes-featuring-arw-in-news_30.html

YES FEATURING ARW IN THE NEWS

 

OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:

 

For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy Policy is here:

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And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:

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And, yes,

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

 

CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:

 

UK

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/

US

http://www.gonzomultimedia.com

 

AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

 

Our webTV show:

https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057

 

And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

 

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

 

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

 

Gonzo Weekly #299/300

THE RESPECT IS DUE ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

In another fun packed and spectacularly Gonzoesque issue, Doug goes to see Bow wow wow and ABC and Belinda Carlisle and more at Retro Futura, Alan loves Courtney Barnett's new album, and looks at the return of the Necessary Animals, Jon bitches

about Fake News and praises snarky online book critiquing, Graham examines a Hawkwind rarity that isn't and there is poetry

from Thom and Josephine Dunn.

 

#Hail Eris!

 

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there are columns from all sorts of folk including Kev Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard BUT the irrepressible Corinna AND Mr Biffo are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, 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:

 

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Richard Thompson, Caravan, Curved Air, ULU, Phil Collins, Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Linda Mkhize, Jose Carlos Almenar Otero, Majid Al-Majid, Jett McKee (Scepaz), Navid Izadi, Randall Desmond Archibald, Aretha Louise Franklin, Rick Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural Gas, Doug Harr, Alan Dearling, Courtney Barnett, Josephine Dunn, Kev Rowland, Acherontas, Alight, The Amorettes, Andrew Neu, Auri, Axel Rudi Pell, Agnostic Front, Hell to Pay, Necessary Animals, Stephen Clarke 1980, Roy Weard, C J Stone, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Ana Mardoll, Neil Nixon, Charlotte Gainsbourg

 

And the last few issues are:

 

Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-299-30.html

Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo295-6.html

Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo294.html

Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo293.html

Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo292.html

Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo291.html

Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo290.html

Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo289.html

Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo288.html

Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo287.html

Issue 286 (Monty Python)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo286.html

Issue 285 (ELP)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo285.html

Issue 284 (Straqngelove)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo284.html

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)

 

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 58 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: Thursday

ON THIS DAY IN  -   1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Australia needs tighter ivory sale laws to protect...

Protecting oceans in Patagonia for a more sustaina...

Black hairstreaks found miles from their heartland...

Leadbeater's possum: conservationists say draft re...

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)

CRYPTOLINK: Squid in the Star

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/725840/giant-squid-sea-monster-new-zealand-world-news-animals

UMMMM... I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS DOING

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/

YER EDITOR SEZ:

Today I was interested to read this article in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/…/activists-publish-list-of-bad…

I am nothing to do with 'Stop the Cull', but I think that they are on the side of the angels. I am very pleased to say, however, that none of the people listed locally is someone that I know personally. How about you? If you are against the cull, and you see that a friend of yours is on this list, please try to gently change their mind. I stress that I am reposting this for information ONLY, and would never use this information to intimidate or attack people on this list, nor would I support anyone else who does.

So far my new record has sold, in round numbers....not a sausage. But it can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

There is no further news about Corinna. She needs more tests, and so the waiting game continues. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers...

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/primitive-graven-image-traversing.html

Primitive Graven Image - Traversing the Awesome Ni...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/yes-featuring-arw-in-news_29.html

YES FEATURING ARW IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/leonard-cohen-news_29.html

LEONARD COHEN NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-shostakovich_29.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY:  Shostakovich Quartet ...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:

For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy Policy is here:

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:

http://tinyurl.com/y7b9rlog

And, yes,

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:

UK

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/

US

http://www.gonzomultimedia.com

AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

Our webTV show:

https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057

And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

Gonzo Weekly #299/300

THE RESPECT IS DUE ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

In another fun packed and spectacularly Gonzoesque issue, Doug goes to see Bow wow wow and ABC and Belinda Carlisle and more at Retro Futura, Alan loves Courtney Barnett's new album, and looks at the return of the Necessary Animals, Jon bitches

about Fake News and praises snarky online book critiquing, Graham examines a Hawkwind rarity that isn't and there is poetry

from Thom and Josephine Dunn.

#Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there are columns from all sorts of folk including Kev Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard BUT the irrepressible Corinna AND Mr Biffo are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, 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:

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Richard Thompson, Caravan, Curved Air, ULU, Phil Collins, Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Linda Mkhize, Jose Carlos Almenar Otero, Majid Al-Majid, Jett McKee (Scepaz), Navid Izadi, Randall Desmond Archibald, Aretha Louise Franklin, Rick Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural Gas, Doug Harr, Alan Dearling, Courtney Barnett, Josephine Dunn, Kev Rowland, Acherontas, Alight, The Amorettes, Andrew Neu, Auri, Axel Rudi Pell, Agnostic Front, Hell to Pay, Necessary Animals, Stephen Clarke 1980, Roy Weard, C J Stone, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Ana Mardoll, Neil Nixon, Charlotte Gainsbourg

And the last few issues are:

Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-299-30.html

Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo295-6.html

Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo294.html

Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo293.html

Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo292.html

Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo291.html

Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo290.html

Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo289.html

Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo288.html

Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo287.html

Issue 286 (Monty Python)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo286.html

Issue 285 (ELP)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo285.html

Issue 284 (Straqngelove)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo284.html

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)

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 58 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?

These words from THOM THE WORLD POET seem appropriate

LONG LIVE ALL MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES

LONG LIVE ROCK N ROLE PLAY

Long live People's Community Festivals

Long live Independent Coffee Shops

Long live Recycled Reads and all Small Libraries

Long live Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly

Long live the Freedom to Believe or not Believe

Long live poetry ,philosophy,declamation and rhetoric

Long live TALL stories and short stories

Long live FLASH fiction and slow writings

Long live haiku,senryu,tanka and haibun

Long live clear clean running water

Long live trees and all who shelter under them

Long live earth and all who walk with her

Long live fantasy and projection,laughter and goodwill

Long live YOU and all other mythological constructions

LONG LIVE US!

👽

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.

• Researchers closing in on mystery illness killing ...
• Bird rescue group dealing with unusual number of i...
• There is not one kind of 'good sperm' -- it depend...
• How plants protect themselves by emitting scent cu...

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

British schoolgirl took a picture of the Loch ness monster

www.MICEtimes.asia (press release)

Unusual object happened to be in the picture. 12-year-old English schoolgirl Charlotte Robinson from Leeds, visited recently with relatives of the ...

Which 'Nessie picture' is the best? Loch Ness Monster papped twice in 1 day - Wheaton Journal

Full Coverage 

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN -   
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

s it a panther? Is it a puma? No, just a cat and ...

Dangerous protected reptiles

Dry weather boosts UK's most endangered butterfly

Britain's biggest butterfly threatened by rising s...

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)

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN CARRIES ON REGARDLESS

The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/

 

YER EDITOR SEZ:

 

I am living in a world more surreal than usual. So far this morning I have spoken to someone about Amazon not allowing our e-books in Russia, about the last ever wolf shot in Scotland, about Michael Bruce of the Alice Cooper Group, and about my new record which can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

 

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

 

But, obviously, he most important thing in my life at the moment is my poor wife's state of health. Corinna tells me that she - once again - feels perfectly normal today, and she certainly doesn't look ill. Let us all pray that when we get the test results back this week, the diagnosis (and therefore the subsequent prognosis) is better than we have feared. Thank you all for your kindness and good wishes. They are truly welcome, and - without hyperbole - awe inspiring.

 

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-mick.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mick Farren/Deviants -...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_27.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/barbara-dickson-tv-interview-2018.html

BARBARA DICKSON TV INTERVIEW (2018)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/graham-fellows-news_27.html

GRAHAM FELLOWS NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/leonard-cohen-stuff.html

LEONARD COHEN STUFF

 

OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:

 

For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy Policy is here:

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

 

And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:

http://tinyurl.com/y7b9rlog

And, yes,

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

 

CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:

 

UK

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/

US

http://www.gonzomultimedia.com

 

AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

 

Our webTV show:

https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057

 

And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

 

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

 

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

 

Gonzo Weekly #299/300

THE RESPECT IS DUE ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

In another fun packed and spectacularly Gonzoesque issue, Doug goes to see Bow wow wow and ABC and Belinda Carlisle and more at Retro Futura, Alan loves Courtney Barnett's new album, and looks at the return of the Necessary Animals, Jon bitches

about Fake News and praises snarky online book critiquing, Graham examines a Hawkwind rarity that isn't and there is poetry

from Thom and Josephine Dunn.

 

#Hail Eris!

 

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there are columns from all sorts of folk including Kev Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard BUT the irrepressible Corinna AND Mr Biffo are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, 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:

 

John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Richard Thompson, Caravan, Curved Air, ULU, Phil Collins, Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Linda Mkhize, Jose Carlos Almenar Otero, Majid Al-Majid, Jett McKee (Scepaz), Navid Izadi, Randall Desmond Archibald, Aretha Louise Franklin, Rick Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural Gas, Doug Harr, Alan Dearling, Courtney Barnett, Josephine Dunn, Kev Rowland, Acherontas, Alight, The Amorettes, Andrew Neu, Auri, Axel Rudi Pell, Agnostic Front, Hell to Pay, Necessary Animals, Stephen Clarke 1980, Roy Weard, C J Stone, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Ana Mardoll, Neil Nixon, Charlotte Gainsbourg

 

And the last few issues are:

 

Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-299-30.html

Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo295-6.html

Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo294.html

Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo293.html

Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo292.html

Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo291.html

Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo290.html

Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo289.html

Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo288.html

Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo287.html

Issue 286 (Monty Python)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo286.html

Issue 285 (ELP)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo285.html

Issue 284 (Straqngelove)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo284.html

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)

 

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 58 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?

THYLACINES IN THE NEWS

	7 Animals That Were the Last of Their Species Mental Floss Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, were among the more unusual species to go extinct in the 20th century. The largest carnivorous marsupials of the ...
	The Ruins of Hobart Zoo Atlas Obscura ... Roberts wrote the manual on the care and breeding of Tasmanian Devils and was hands-on with all her charges, especially her beloved thylacines ...

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.

• The Extinction of the Kauai ʻōʻō
• Birds Studied for Reaction to Wildfire Smoke
• Israel seeing early flocks of migrating storks ami...
• Golden eagle chicks released to boost south of Sco...
• Pointy eggs more likely to stay put in birds' clif...

CRYPTOLINK: Yowie story

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 

In an Australian forest met Bigfoot

The Siver Times

An unusual creature had impressive dimensions. “He was above six feet tall, all covered with scary hair and growled,” says the frightened woman.

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

Tourist spotted Nessie hours before schoolgirl took 'best Loch Ness Monster picture for years'

The Scottish Sun

Lynn Locke's report has now been accepted by the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register – the seventh of the monster this year, which is ...

Loch Ness Captured! Girl on a Holiday Clicks 'Best Picture of Nessie,' The Lake Monster of Scotland 

LatestLY 

The Nessie or Loch Ness is a mysterious creature said to reside in the lake of Scotland. The lake monster has its reference in certain legends and ...

Canadian tourist spots Nessie hours before schoolgirl takes 'best Loch Ness Monster picture for ...

Sott

Lynn Locke's report has now been accepted by the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register - the seventh of the monster this year, which is ...

CRYPTOLINK: Yeren story

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 

Dreamers, crackpots or realists? The diehards on the trail of China's 'Bigfoot'

South China Morning Post

It was nearly 40 years ago, but Yuan Yuhao remembers his brush with “China's answer to Bigfoot” like it was yesterday. “It was about 3 o'clock in the ...