Another new Beefheart blog - Captain Beefheart Project - has been created this weekend. The first three entries deal with particular concerts, giving background information and links, including links to a site where torrents of audio files of Beefheart concerts can be found. I'm looking forward to seeing how this develops.

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Fast 'n Bulbous, the acclaimed Beefheart brass band which includes Gary Lucas on guitar, take the stage at Jazz em Agosto Festival in Lisbon at 21.30 GMT on 13 August 2005. The performance will be broadcast live from Portugal to your computer at Rádio Interna do Instituto Superior Tecnico.

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Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism is the title of a new book which is to be published by Salt Publishing on 1 September 2005.

Salt Publishing's website tells us that, "this book is not another critical biography, but an interpretive essay investigating what we feel is the cultural and historical importance of Zappa and Beefheart in the context of a wide-ranging network of references that run from Michelangelo and Arcimboldo to William Burroughs and Vaclav Havel."

The authors are Michel Delville & Andrew Norris, both of whom teach at The University of Liège, Belgium. There are samples of their writing about Beefheart and Zappa both at the publisher's website and at this University of Liège page.

Paperback price: GBP 16.99 USD 26.99. Hardback price: GBP 40 USD 63.99

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Big Eyed Beans From Venus, a Beefheart tribute band from Athens, GA, have posted some audio files of their work at nFluent Music and at MySpace.com. Rockette Morton has recently played in concert with them and is expected to join them again for their next gig on 13 Aug 2005 at Tasty World, Athens, GA.

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SubDiva, the producers of The Magic Band DVD, have a limited quantity of Magic Band 2005 Crow's Milk tour tee shirts for sale at their website.

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At last, beefheart.com shuffles nervously into the 21st Century with it's own interactive Beefheart weblog.

This weblog will be regularly updated with any news or trivia with so much as a whiff of Beefheart about it. New releases, exhibitions, television programmes, reviews, magazine articles, name-drops, new covers, influences, photographs, anything connected with the good Captain and his still-splendid Magic Band.

Big news will continue to be available on the main news page, anything and everything else will be available right here.

All visitors are able to comment publicly on any of the items in the Beefheart blog, so if you feel you have something to say, please do so.

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