MR BIFFO'S FOUND FOOTAGE - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2016

http://www.digitiser2000.com/

CFZ PEOPLE: Olivia McCarthy

Happy Birthday Darling

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.

• Scientists scale trees in desperate attempt to sav...
• 130-Million-Year Old Proteins Still Present in Din...
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THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN MIGHT WELL BE

The Gonzo Daily: Thursday

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

 

Now, that was bloody stupid of me.

 

I got up bright and early, performed my ablutions, took my medicine and was downstairs well before nine. I had my breakfast, and - as I felt a little drowsy - I thought that a short doze in my armchair couldn't help. I woke up at five in the evening, and it transpired that I had taken my night-time meds rather than my morning ones, and the tranquilisers and happy pills had soothed me into the arms of Morpheus. And so a whole day is gone.

 

I shall be working late tonight.

 

PS: Happy Birthday Olivia

 

And here is the news:

 

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html

Pink Fairies - X Ray

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/pink-fairies-x-ray.html

Gregg Brown US review

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/gregg-brown-us-review.html

ARW: Important notice

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/arw-important-notice.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: "Awaken" - Jon Anderso...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-gonzo-track-of-day-awaken-jon.html

 

Gonzo Magazine #210

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

In this mesmerising issue we look at she who was Nico, Doug was in the audience when it all got weird for Kanye West, so unlike everyone else we can print what REALLY happened, Alan looks at the music scene in Madeira, John was there when Ryley Walker went electric, and Archie was there when Jon had mixed feelings about J K Rowling, but at least he finally likes Paul Simon, (Jon that is, Archie is still undecided).

 

Strange Days Indeed (Most Peculiar Mama)

 

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. The saga of Xtul gets particularly nasty, but Neil Nixon, Richard Freeman and Strange Daze take rainchecks this week. 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:

Binky Womack, Richard Palmer-James, Madonna, Steve Rothery Band, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Morrisey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Craig Douglas Gill, Sharon Lafaye Jones, Hugh McDonald, Donald “Don” Lee Waller,  Walter Howard "Hod" O'Brien, Joe Esposito,  Spirits Burning and Clearlight, Vangelis, Al Atkins, Atomic Rooster, Rick Wakeman, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher & Barbara Dickson, Nico, Pink Fairies, Kanye West, Alan Dearling, The Camachofones, Andrei Ladeichikov, Quatro Litros, John Brodie-Good, Ryley Walker,  Itasca, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, J K Rowling, nDavid Bowie, Adam Ant, Elvis,  Neil Nixon, C.O.B. (Clive’s Original Band)

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 209 (Pink Floyd)

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 Russel cvalled 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/Friday/Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

'World's saddest polar bear' temporarily moved fro...

Destruction of kelp forests by tropical fish shows...

78,000 Origami Elephants Invade the Bronx Zoo

Scientists uncover genetic evidence that 'we are w...

Acoustic buoy now detecting rare and endangered wh...

Meet the unsung heroes of dung: Beetles found to r...

Impacts of climate warming, declining sea ice on A...

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 ESCAPES

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

And so another day arrives clunking through the space-time continuum. And winter seems to have arrived with a bang. It is bitterly cold outside, and - as, there is only one large fishtank operable in the office, instead of three last year - it is colder than I would have liked in my sanctum sanctorum.

Yesterday was a very productive one, and I am happy to say that the December newsletter has been finished and sent out, #4 of the Journal of Cryptozoology is finished, and the double #57/8 of Animals & Men is within spitting distance of being finished. Also, the ARW (Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman, as any fule kno) concert from Friday in San Francisco, which was cancelled due to Trevor Rabin having contracted a nasty virus, has been rescheduled for the 4th December.

Professor Downes’ Academy for Young Ladies is closed today due to an absence of pupils, and therefore I shall have another day of clearing up the log jam in the office. I am happy to say that - largely due to Chloe’s hard work - said log jam is diminishing at what seems like a rate of knots. Huzzah!

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:

buy my novel:
http://tinyurl.com/gmo6axf
buy my single:
http://tinyurl.com/zoex4d4

And here is the news:

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
Pink Fairies - X Ray
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/pink-fairies-x-ray.html
Gregg Brown US review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/gregg-brown-us-review.html
ARW: Important notice
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/arw-important-notice.html
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: "Awaken" - Jon Anderso...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-gonzo-track-of-day-awaken-jon.html

Gonzo Magazine #210
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

In this mesmerising issue we look at she who was Nico, Doug was in the audience when it all got weird for Kanye West, so unlike everyone else we can print what REALLY happened, Alan looks at the music scene in Madeira, John was there when Ryley Walker went electric, and Archie was there when Jon had mixed feelings about J K Rowling, but at least he finally likes Paul Simon, (Jon that is, Archie is still undecided).

Strange Days Indeed (Most Peculiar Mama)

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. The saga of Xtul gets particularly nasty, but Neil Nixon, Richard Freeman and Strange Daze take rainchecks this week. 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:
Binky Womack, Richard Palmer-James, Madonna, Steve Rothery Band, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Morrisey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Craig Douglas Gill, Sharon Lafaye Jones, Hugh McDonald, Donald “Don” Lee Waller,  Walter Howard "Hod" O'Brien, Joe Esposito,  Spirits Burning and Clearlight, Vangelis, Al Atkins, Atomic Rooster, Rick Wakeman, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher & Barbara Dickson, Nico, Pink Fairies, Kanye West, Alan Dearling, The Camachofones, Andrei Ladeichikov, Quatro Litros, John Brodie-Good, Ryley Walker,  Itasca, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, J K Rowling, nDavid Bowie, Adam Ant, Elvis,  Neil Nixon, C.O.B. (Clive’s Original Band)

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 209 (Pink Floyd)
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 Russel cvalled 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?

CFZ MEMBERS NEWSLETTER #14

Dear Friends,


For those of you not in the know, at the beginning of each month we send out a newsletter to all members of the CFZ. The most recent (which went out this afternoon) included articles on strange carcasses in Scotland, Canadian Mystery Animals, the return of OTT, Expedition Profiles for 2017, Notes and Queries etc.

The infrastructure of the Centre for Fortean Zoology has changed rapidly over the last few years and truthfully doesn’t look like its going to stop changing anytime soon. The newsletter costs a quid a month (or the equivalent in your currency) and is delivered straight into your inbox by a plethora of tiny invisible elves, or email if your prefer it that way. You can sign up for it here: http://tinyurl.com/jtsq7ew

If you want to view a sample issue click here: http://tinyurl.com/pw7rw9l