HUNT EMERSON REMEMBERS WW2013

LEE FALLOWS INTERVIEWS HUNT EMERSON AT THE UNCON

NEW RECORD BY HUNT EMERSON

SPRITELY RECORDS second CD release is out now!
STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND
featuring HUNT EMERSON present

SEVEN CURSES.
The 9-track CD features the Main Version of the Bob Dylan song, plus radical remixes by Billy Milk, Bobby Bird, Steve Astronaut and White Glove, with a "busked" performance of the song by Hunt Emerson, and as an added bonus there's a very different mix of Spritely's first record, Josephine.

The CD, beautifully packaged with 3 postcards and an extensive sleeve note by music journalist Tony Hendry, costs just �6-50 (including p&p) and can be ordered from

http://www.spritelyrecords.com/ where you can hear Seven Curses, see the video, and check out our back catalogue.

If you're in Birmingham, you might like to come to our LAUNCH RECEPTION for Seven Curses.
This will be at The Endwood, Hamstead Road, Handsworth, B20 2RA
from 7-30pm to 9pm on Friday OCTOBER 21st.
Come and buy CDs, t-shirts, Spritely Records aprons, prints
and hear the FIRST PLAYING of our soon-available
CHRISTMAS SINGLE!

But mainly - DON'T MISS OUT ON SEVEN CURSES!!

FORTEAN FIVES: Hunt Emerson

In Forean Fives the great and the good of Forteana pick out Five interesting events from the history of Forteana. If you want to submit your own Fortean Five email it to Oll Lewis at fortean5s@gmail.com . Today’s Fortean Five was compiled by Hunt Emerson. Hunt is the Fortean Times cartoonist and amongst other things, works for the Beano. Take it away, Hunt:

1. My very own UFO sighting sometime in the late 90s: I saw an unmarked wedge-shaped craft flying quite low over Handsworth, Birmingham, travelling south. Several years later I had confirmation of this from someone who wrote to FT reporting the same craft further south in England, at a time later that would account for its direction and speed of travel. I believe it was a stealth bomber, which in those days was a rare thing. Although explained, it was at the time a UFO and has entered "the literature" as such. I'm afraid I can't give a date for this.

2. I've always liked the story of the Voyage of Saint Brendan, across the North Atlantic in a leather boat with 8 monks, during which they encountered all manner of strange and interesting creatures.

3. I love the tale of the image of Christ that appeared as vague marks on a white painted wall in Mexico (?) and attracted crowds of supplicants and the prayerful, before being recognized as a Willie Nelson Concert poster that had been whitewashed over and then partially showed itself through the paint.

4. Similar story of the face of Christ (or possibly image of the BVM) that appeared on the door of a large refrigerator standing on a porch somewhere in the southern states of the USA, in the reflections of a porch light that was turned on in the evening. Again, it attracted crowds of worshippers, to the annoyance of the householder, who finally dealt with the phenomenon by moving the fridge.

5. Everybody's going to groan when I say this, but my fifth choice is Uri Geller. I stood two feet behind his left shoulder and watched him bend someone's door key. Now, I've no doubt that there's some accepted explanation for this trick, but I don't know what it is, and I saw it happen. With my own eyes. (Not that that's anything to go by....)

OLL LEWIS: 5 Questions on… Cryptozoology - HUNT EMERSON

Our very special guest today is Hunt Emerson. Hunt will be familiar to most of you as the resident cartoonist of Fortean Times and if you have kids you might also be familiar with his work in perhaps the world’s greatest comic, the Beano, where he has written and illustrated a number of comic strips including Ratz (his own creation), Little Plumb and several poems including works by Edward Lear and Shelley.

A selected archive of his work can be found on his website http://largecow.com/ along with a much more detailed and exciting biography than I have space for here.

So, Hunt Emerson, here are your 5 Questions on… Cryptozoology:

1) How did you first become interested in cryptozoology?

1974-ish, meeting Bob Rickard, being introduced to Fortean Times, and first becoming aware that cryptozoology existed.

2) Have you ever personally seen a cryptid or secondary evidence of a cryptid, if so can you please describe your encounter?

I have a vague and hallucinatory memory, from when I was 4 years old, of seeing an enormous earthworm of an indefinite length in the front garden of my Nana Emerson's house, but that probably doesn't count.

3) Which cryptids do you think are the most likely to be scientifically discovered and described some day, and why?

I look forward to the return of the thylacine, and I would love to see those single-footed things out of Herodotus (is it?), turn out to be real.

4) Which cryptids do you think are the least likely to exist?

Those single-footed things... they were stamped out in the Bunion Age.

5) If you had to pick your favourite cryptozoological book (not including books you may have written yourself) what would you choose?

The Voyage of Saint Brendan.

HUNT EMERSON REMEMBERS THE WEIRD WEEKEND

This is possibly the nicest thing anyone has ever done for us. Thank you, Hunt.
(I have had a copy for a while, but didn't want to post it until it had appeared in FT)