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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

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AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

 

Gonzo Weekly #299/300

THE RESPECT IS DUE ISSUE

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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)

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Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)

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

Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)

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Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

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Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

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Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

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Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

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Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

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Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

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Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

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Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

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Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

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Issue 286 (Monty Python)

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Issue 285 (ELP)

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Issue 284 (Straqngelove)

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Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

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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)

 

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* 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 ...