Monday, July 18, 2016

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS HOT

The Gonzo Daily - Monday
What a weird year this is turning out to be. Everyone I know is having a bad time. I am not qualified to judge whether #alien abductions' have an objective reality or whether they are some kind of psychotic episode or a bit of both. But a dear friend of mine who has a history of such things had another such experience a few days ago. On top of that, another friend collapsed from low blood sugar and was rushed to hospital yesterday. Compared to those, me having to get Graham to sort out an overdue electricity bill is small beer indeed. My heart, thoughts and prayers go out to them both (but not to the Electricity Board).
And now I am on the want again. Ticket sales for this year's Weird Weekend are the slowest ever. I strongly suspect that it is because of the financial insecurity that so many people are feeling at the moment, but I hope that it will turn itself around in the next four weeks. This year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of  Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..
find out all about the Weird Weekend
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And now for the news................
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - Don't Le...
Brand X interview with Phil Collins & John Goodsal...
Arthur Brown gives an interview.
Eric Burdon - Interview 2010
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #191
We interview Ian Jones from everyone’s fave Welsh rockers Karnataka, Doug muses on Rush, Alan grieves for music venues under threat, John goes to see Santana, and Jon expounds on hippydom and reviews a book by John Lennon’s mistress, while Biffo goes Ghostbusting!0
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. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. 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:
The RAZ Band, John Shuttleworth, Yoko Ono, Dolly Parton, Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman, David Gilmour, Meat Loaf, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Randy California, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Steven Young, Danny Smythe, Gladys Hermiston-Hooper (née Nash), Arthur Brown, The Beatles, The Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic Encounters, Richard Brautigan, Karnataka, Ian Jones, Rush, Alan Dearling, John Brodie-Good, Santana, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, John Lennon, May Pang,  Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Glastonbury, Paul McCartney, Neil Nixon, Cantona,
                                                                                  
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)
Issue 182 (Wally)
Issue 181 (Beatles)
Issue 180 (Beltane)
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
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:
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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small 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 the infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kittens?

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.


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  • NEWSLINK: Tiger safari project in Corbett red flag...






  • BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    How Many Times Has Bigfoot Been Seen in North Dakota?
    While most Bigfoot sightings take place in the Pacific Northwest, the elusive creature has also been seen a handful of times in the state of North ...

    Art Bell Discusses The Snohomish Bigfoot
    Bigfoot Evidence ... Art Bell Discusses The Snohomish Bigfoot ... Art Bell is joined by Limda Howe, as they discuss the Snohomish, WA. bigfoot cases.

    Olympic National Park May Be The Best Place To Find Bigfoot
    There are many places to look for Bigfoot throughout the United States, but the epicenter of the American Sasquatch phenomenon stems from

    Bigfoot News Bastille Day Edition, 2016
    Finally, a new Bigfoot news! This long awaited edition will consist only of some very interesting photos that I have found, including one from Fallbrook, ...


    Campsite Encounter With A Sasquatch
    After setting up a fake camp site to attract Bigfoot, Harrington hid in his truck. When the creatures stepped out of the woods and approached the site, ...


    How The Heck Are You Supposed To Find Bigfoot In All This?
    The Washington Sasquatch Research Team treks out into some of the thickest and densest cover we've ever seen in their elusive search for bigfoot.

    Check Out This Virtual Bigfoot Hunt In Alabama
    Thanks to bigfooter Jonathan Odom, now everyone can go on a bigfoot expedition! So keep your eyes peeled for bigfoot, all the work has already ...

    Scariest Dogman Encounters
    Tonight's show is a compilation of what are, in my opinion, the scariest encounters, that have aired on Episodes 78 through 103.

    NH1 News


    According to the Concord Monitor, Searching for Bigfoot has previously been involved in hoaxes. Now the group has met with a Deering man, Scott ...


    Bigfoot Witness Talks About His Strange Encounters
    A bigfoot witness named John talks about his encounters with sasquatch in this episode of the Inspired By Bigfoot podcast. Enjoy.


    A team of Bigfoot enthusiasts, which has previously been involved in ... The California-based outfit, called Searching for Bigfoot, met with a Deering ...


    Bob Gimlin regrets releasing Bigfoot video
    "Every conclusive bigfoot claim (ie a claim followed to definitive conclusion) ... Neither is it a conclusive statement regarding bigfoot existence, or an ...


    Bigfoot Kicks Ass in New Clip from Stomping Ground
    Bigfoot is back and is on the loose in a new clip from STOMPING GROUND, a new horror-comedy about the big guy himself. STOMPING GROUND is ...


    Ohio Bigfoot Hunter: Summer Research
    Tim Stover of The Ohio Bigfoot Hunters is no stranger to Squatching. The guy spends a lot of time in the field researching the elusive Grassman of ...

    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.





    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday

    ON THIS DAY IN - 1789 - Robespierre, a deputy from Arras, France, decided to back the French Revolution. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

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  • Dinosaurs may not have roared after all, new study...
  • 'Ghost Fish' Seen Live for First Time
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  • Newly discovered dinosaur had 'T. rex arms' that e...


  • 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)