Wednesday, November 19, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS HUNGOVER

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
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Yesterday was a frustrating day with all sorts of things going wrong so I had a few drinks last night and the only thing in my liquor cabinet (except for the good stuff that I am saving for a special occasion) was half a bottle of Slovenian rum which, mixed with sugar free cherryade is one of the nastiest things that I have ever drunk. However, 'it did the biz' as Graham is wont to say, and I have a rather nasty hangover this morning. The only other social highlight of the day ahead of me is a visit to the Chriropody Department of Bideford and District Hospital this afternoon. Due to having been badly ripped off earlier in the year, we are spectacularly skint at the moment, but I have been skint before, and no doubt will be skint again in the future, and these hard times do pass.
 
 
 
Pink Fairies, Rocket Scientists, Blodwyn Pig, Mick Abrahams, Pink Floyd, Jon Anderson, Yes, Nick Redfern, John Lennon, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out! The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#104) will soon be available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
 
It has The Pink Fairies on the cover, and features an interview with Andy Colquhoun about the current and future plans of the band including the long hoped for studio material. Rob Ayling visits legendary blues guitarist Mick Abrahams in his studio and find out about his exciting new album made with some very A-List sparring partners. Erik Norlander is very cagey about the new album from Rocket Scientists. But there's more! There is news about Daevid Allen, Doug Harr goes to see America and also gets hitched, Jon waxes lyrical about the new Pink Floyd album and then gets all existential. Xtul are still in the deep woods, and Corinna finds some real Beatles tat. Jon looks at a peculiar book about John Lennon and we send the mighty John Ellis (ex Vibrators and Stranglers and sidesman to Peter Gabriel and Peter Hammill to a desert island. There are also new shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the massively talented Jaki and Tim are back with their submarine and Maisie the cow. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and turtles having a snooze (OK, no soporific chelonians, 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!!!
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 102 (Steve Hillage cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/the-gonzo-weekly-102
Issue 101 (Tommy James cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/gonzo-weekly-101.html
Issue 100 (Jon Anderson cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/gonzo-weekly-100.html
Issue 99 (Judge Smith cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/10/gonzo-weekly-99.h
Issue 98 (Matt Malley cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/10/gonzo-weekly-98.h
Issue 97 (Evelyn cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/09/gonzo-weekly-97.h
Issue 96 (Oz cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/09/gonzo-weekly-96.h
Issue 95 (Mick Rogers cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/09/gonzo-weekly-95.h
Issue 94 (John Ellis cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/09/gonzo-weekly-94.h
 

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/
 

* 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.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit
 
* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 the infantile orange cat?

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.



BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



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