Sunday, November 04, 2018
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PRAYS
The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
And for no real reason Sunday's notifications are done in rhyme
It's Sunday so again its time
to do the daily blogs in rhyme:
Corinna is considerably better this week
which is proof that this particular freak
thirty five years ago you see
paid attention to his pharmacology#
Slainte
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
WAKEMAN IN HALIFAX
HAWKWIND NEWS
ZAPPA: 25 Years of the Yellow Shark
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Står i din nærhet - L...
OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:
For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy
Policy is here:
And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
And, yes,
CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:
UK
US
AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
Our webTV show:
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may
seem to be in order:
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #309/10
THE WELCOME ON THE HILLSIDE ISSUE
(I wonder if anyone will get it?)
In another fantastically fab issue, Alan goes to a PsyTrance festie at
Hebden Bridge and grooved to the sounds of Steve Hillage, System 7, Eat Static
and more, we have a new interview with Rick Wakeman, Rob photographs Man in
Cardiff, John goes to see Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Jon writes about
Chaos Chaos, Mary Epworth and The Who, and Hawkwind go orchestral.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, AND as Lady Selene has been high in the sky, Canterbury Sans
Frontieres, AND there are columns from Kev Rowlands, AND C J Stone, AND Mr
Biffo but though Neil Nixon, AND Roy Weard AND the irrepressible Corinna 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:
Chaos Chaos, Nico, Merrell Fankhauser, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Queen, Roger
Taylor, Bart Lancia, Yes, Man, Richard Stellar, Jamal Khashoggi, Daniel Pearl,
Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans
Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Valters Fridenbergs, Oli Herbert,
Annapurna Devi, Theresa Hightower, Tim Chandler, Andy Goessling, Jon James
McMurray, Al Atkins, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Spirits Burning and Michael
Moorcock, The Gardening Club, Rick Wakeman, Simon Mayo, Alan Dearling, Hebden
Bridge, Cabbage Festival, Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, System 7, Mirror
System, Daniel Gaudi, Mery Pepler aka Eat Static, Tetchi, Ozric Tentacles, John
Brodie-Good, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Kev Rowland, Green Desert Water,
Heartwind, Ira B Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, Jim McCarty, The Konsortiumm, L.A.
Guns, Leila Abdul-Rauf, Lesoir, Carl Marshall, Mr Biffo, Chris Stone, Hawkwind,
Cold Harbour Diaries, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, The
Who, Dave Marsh
And the last few issues are:
Issue 309-10 (Steve Hillage)
Issue 307-8 (Michael Moorcock)
Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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 59 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?
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Sunday/Monday/Tuesday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Matilda the echidna beats crippling ant allergy – ...
NPS to reestablish wolves on Isle Royale
'Bin chicken' plays unique role in story of evolut...
Fisheries nations to decide fate of declining bige...
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)
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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)
Friday, November 02, 2018
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PRAYS
The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
We have just released a gamechanger of a book. The Seal Serpent is a
critical reappraisal of the theory that a pinniped (seal, sea lion, fur seal,
walrus) could have evolved a long neck becoming the source of numerous tales of
sea serpents or lake monsters from around the world; a mammalian equivalent of
the plesiosaur. The theory which has been around for over a hundred years is
given a fresh perspective by Rob Cornes (The Surreal Seal Campaign, CFZ yearbook
2007) and Gary Cunningham (co-author of The Mystery Animals of Ireland
2010).
The authors evaluate the evidence for such an animal and build a
speculative framework for its existence. They uncover previously unpublished
reports which may strengthen the theory but also uncover a number of
inaccuracies and alternative explanations which may explain other historic
accounts.
All good stuff. But the radio shows which leap at the chance to interview
people about British "Bigfoot" with cloaking decices are showing next to no
interest in interviewing Rob, which is a great pity. The sad truth is that the
vast majority of online pundits who profess an interest in cryptozoology, are
actually interested in no such thing, preferring a diet of fantasy and nonsense.
What a sad world we live in.
Corinna is mostly pain free, and is being massively brave. I cannot tell
you how much I love and admire that woman. Poor lass has to undergo another
batch of tests, and we continue to forge on until something actually happens.
Please remember us in your thoughts and prayers.
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily
Poemhttp://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/11/wondrous-stories-from-yes.html
WONDROUS STORIES FROM YES
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Chad Mitchell Trio - T...
VINTAGE SHUTTLESTUFF
HAWKWIND NEWS
And for those of you interested in my day job...
On The Track (of Unknown Animals) Ep. 96 (Ogopogo,...
OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:
For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy
Policy is here:
And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
And, yes,
CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:
UK
US
AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
Our webTV show:
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may
seem to be in order:
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have
sold eight whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate
I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium.
Coldharbour, by the way, 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?
I do have good news to impart: Lars Thomas' book about the mystery land
animals of Scandinavia and the Baltic States has been uploaded, and over at
Gonzo the first volume of Kev Rowland's The Progressive Underground is also
imminent. And at Fortean Fiction, my latest novel - 'Zen and Xenophobia' -
vaguely a sequel to 2015's 'The Song of Panne' - is now available.
! would warn you that if you are of a nervous disposition, or easily
offended, you will find parts of my novel both offensive and upsetting. There is
sex, violence, drug abuse, occultism, pornography, firearms, politics, religion,
and not a little sociology. But there is also love, kindness, faith, and
redemption. And it's a cracking good yarn. Or I think so, at any rate. All I
would say on the subject before bidding you farewell is Caveat Lector. And I'm
not gonna explain what that means, because because if you don't know what that
means then you probably shouldn't be reading the book in the first place.
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #309/10
THE WELCOME ON THE HILLSIDE ISSUE
(I wonder if anyone will get it?)
In another fantastically fab issue, Alan goes to a PsyTrance festie at
Hebden Bridge and grooved to the sounds of Steve Hillage, System 7, Eat Static
and more, we have a new interview with Rick Wakeman, Rob photographs Man in
Cardiff, John goes to see Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Jon writes about
Chaos Chaos, Mary Epworth and The Who, and Hawkwind go orchestral.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, AND as Lady Selene has been high in the sky, Canterbury Sans
Frontieres, AND there are columns from Kev Rowlands, AND C J Stone, AND Mr
Biffo but though Neil Nixon, AND Roy Weard AND the irrepressible Corinna 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:
Chaos Chaos, Nico, Merrell Fankhauser, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Queen, Roger
Taylor, Bart Lancia, Yes, Man, Richard Stellar, Jamal Khashoggi, Daniel Pearl,
Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans
Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Valters Fridenbergs, Oli Herbert,
Annapurna Devi, Theresa Hightower, Tim Chandler, Andy Goessling, Jon James
McMurray, Al Atkins, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Spirits Burning and Michael
Moorcock, The Gardening Club, Rick Wakeman, Simon Mayo, Alan Dearling, Hebden
Bridge, Cabbage Festival, Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, System 7, Mirror
System, Daniel Gaudi, Mery Pepler aka Eat Static, Tetchi, Ozric Tentacles, John
Brodie-Good, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Kev Rowland, Green Desert Water,
Heartwind, Ira B Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, Jim McCarty, The Konsortiumm, L.A.
Guns, Leila Abdul-Rauf, Lesoir, Carl Marshall, Mr Biffo, Chris Stone, Hawkwind,
Cold Harbour Diaries, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, The
Who, Dave Marsh
And the last few issues are:
Issue 309-10 (Steve Hillage)
Issue 307-8 (Michael Moorcock)
Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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 59 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?
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.
BIG CAT ROUND UP
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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- ARTICLE: The sickening reality behind this popular...
- NEWSLINK: Leopard playing with stray dogs goes vir...
- VIDEO: Charlestown zoo owner says he's ready for w...
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Friday/Saturday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1721 - Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Neglected baby beetles evolve greater self-relianc...
World's first human case of rat disease found in H...
Secret life of rare antelope revealed
PCB pollution threatens to wipe out killer whales
Invasive snakes ‘hitchhiking’ on planes (Brown Tre...
Cambodian reptile cafe slithers into people's hear...
Turtles Come Back To Indian Beach For The First Ti...
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)
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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)
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