Please note the items you are about to read consist largely of scurrilous gossip, vicious back-stabbing and idle speculation. As Jon Stewart might say, its stories are not fact checked. Its informants are not journalists. And its opinions are not fully thought through.
THE GONADS! CHARLTON! SOUTH LONDON! STREET ROCK N ROLL! COCKNEY CULTURE! COCKNEY ROCK! OI-TONE! SKA! BEER! CURRY! WORKERS’ RIGHTS! FLAG-GIRLS! ENGLAND! OI OI OI! THIS IS WHO WE ARE!
Jan 27 2024. By order of John King, PPGB (People’s Party of Great Britain), this blog will re-open “at least once a month” until further notice. King, who has furiously condemned the blog’s closure, is believed to be mobilising the fearsome King Youth to take the fight for its survival and full revival directly to Lord Waistrel. In a parallel development, Club 77 members are battling to prolong the gigging life of the Gonads beyond December 2024.
The news in brief: The Gonads will play Dagenham & Redbridge FC in July with Horace Panter from the Specials and The Blacklisted All-Stars (formerly P45) – all details on the news page... Gal has revived his Bushell On The Box TV show on the Ustreme streaming channel, three new episodes drop every week and the Nads are expected to feature... John King has been confirmed as both a life-long associate member of the Gonads and an apprentice Prankster, a rare double honour. John will officially join the band at a Gonads curry night in central London. Meanwhile JK’s JP initiation ceremony is expected to take place at the Pranksters’ top-secret HQ (in Green Lane, Chislehurst) followed by a festive board at the near-by Sydney Arms. To order brethren! God, it feels great to type those words... even unpaid, unwanted and unwashed...
This month’s big rumour: Gal Gonad spent at least four days in Los Angeles earlier this year prompting much speculation, mostly from Fat Col, some of it unrepeatable and libellous (there is no six-year-old love child from the last Gonads US tour and definitely none born to Licky Lisa). The common belief is that Gal intends the final Gonads gig to be in Las Vegas later this year – even if it means using the American Gonads. He is known to have met with Shira Leigh, Christine Peake, Psycho Manny and a “prominent Nevada promoter”. However, we are assured there is zero chance that Sandie West, Hollywood’s Best, will be involved. That’s all folks. We will return the next time there is a glitch in the Matrix.
STOP PRESS. Gal interviews the legendary UFO singer Phil Mogg in tomorrow’s Sunday Express...
