Holy moly, November is almost out of time and we still have so much to do this year!
Unfortunately, we won’t get it all done, but I do want to pass my thanks to two chaps who have been incredibly patient and understanding with delays and rescheduling. First, Simon Perrins. You’ll all know Simon from our episodes talking about comics and art and Queen of the Swords Part One. And he’s behind the visual identity of the podcast, the Gerard Arthur Connelly portraits that grace the Journal and he’s co-host of Can I Pod With Madness too. If you haven’t checked that out do so. It’s a hoot and a blast from the past for metal fans. We’ve had to reschedule QOTS 2 no less than five times in the past couple of months or more, but we have a new date and we will get it done.
And my thanks to Liam Jones for his patience around the scheduling SNAFUs related to our discussion about Before Armageddon, the Moorcock-edited volume of Victorian and Edwardian disaster/invasion stories. Hopefully, we’ll get that pencilled in for the new year. In a Birthday/Xmas episode update, Loz hopped over last weekend so we drank some terrible beers (and one or two nice ones) and we tackled a very lazy but amusing – to us at least – concept I half-baked last week. It’s a follow-up of sorts to the patron-exclusive episode we did a while back – Breakfast in the Ruins Gets Pissed at Derry & Toms Gentleman’s Club on Ladies Night (between 5 and 7 every seventh Saturday) – if you’re not a patron and you’re reading this you can only imagine the depths we can plumb to create content when we haven’t done our homework.
Keen listeners might remember that ahead of that Loz and I had selected a couple of short stories from the White Wolf Eternal Champion omnibus. In all honesty, the stories we randomly selected turned out to be a bit unremarkable and therefore hard to talk about. We may revisit that, and the companion Elric volume Tales of the White Wolf, at some point down the line. But given that we have a sizeable catalogue of New Worlds stories to delve into… maybe not.
ONLY TIME WILL TELL!
In other news, the November issue of Jim Kirkland’s excellent Pursuit of the Pale Prince newsletter landed in my inbox with a variety of updates on stuff of interest to Moorcock fans. If you’re not receiving it already, subscribe by dropping Jim a line at dcbooks@aol.com. One of the releases mentioned in there is Cirith Ungol’s latest release, Dark Parade. My copy arrived last week and, as I went for the special release, it’s a gorgeous affair that includes the gatefold double LP, a booklet, two posters, a Michael Whelan art print, a slip case and… a Cirith Ungol tote bag! I never knew how much I needed a Cirith Ungol tote bag until now…
To the best of my knowledge, the current Cirith Ungol tour may be their last (at least as far as Europe is concerned) so if you want to see them live, now may be your final chance. At some point, I must remember to drag out my Frost and Fire 40th Anniversary Box Set for a spin. And get the Michael Whelan Stormbringer poster framed too.
Maybe I should see if I can get them to drop by Derry & Toms too…
Also mentioned in Jim’s newsletter is the imminent release of issues one and two of New Edge Sword & Sorcery and we talked about that with Oliver Brackenbury a while back. Looking forward to that and the new MM Elric tale included in issue one. If you haven’t got on board with that follow them and check out their webpage although it doesn’t make it entirely apparent how to get a hold of it. That said, issue zero is still available via Amazon so I assume they will be too eventually. If you want to check New Edge out, you can grab a PDF of Issue Zero for free.
That’s all for now I reckon.
Stay safe out there.
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