GLASTONBURY ARCHIVE: THE TIMES OF AVALONIA
Satirical reponse to the excesses of the local press – published by Unique Publications. 11 issues, 1985 to 1988.

1 Late 1985
‘Mad Postman Bites Hippies’; Greenlands Farm – in-depth analysis; Rev Boris Gestetner’s ‘Thought for the Week’.
Original printed using a Gestetner duplicator, in a muddy orchard at Greenlans Farm.
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2 February 1986
‘Moral Threat in Wild West Town’; A statement from the Avalonian People’s Popular Liberation Experience; The Ghastly Experience; 7A Soap; Thoughts on the CND demonstration at Molesworth, Rev Boris Gestetner.
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3 May 1986
Hinkley Point Melt-Down; Radiation-Proof Lead Bender special offer; Rev Boris Gestetner – A Letter from Spiritual Exile; Cold Custard Preservation Society; The Expensive State of Avalonia presents – The Avalonian Mysteries Gathering.
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4 August 1986
Secret plot to Take Over the World; Intimate Secrets of a Banana Sculptress; The Avalonian Department of Stealth and Holy Security – Late Night Munchies Support Group; Councillor in Naked Orgy on Tor; Hell’s Bells – new LP from St John’s bell ringers; Fury over Vicarage Drugs Scandal; Page Twenty Three; The Hallowe’en Death Mysteries Gathering.
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5 Getting-on-for-Christmas 1986
A Merry Christmas, and a Devilish Good Solstice; New Plans for European Marijuana Mountain; The Swarmi Barmi Ashram – opening soon; the arrival of Vernon Vulture; The Vision of Saint Boris the Divine; It’s a Cracker – Glastonbury Carnival.
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6 Chinese New Year 1987
Christ Returns to Glastonbury; Burns Night at the Assembly Rooms – Vegetarian Haggis Shock; Dole Offiice Destroyed by Rampaging Mob; Oxflab – all over the world capitalists are starving!; Bank of Avalonia – 23 fumit note; The Seven Wonders of Avalonia; HTV West – The Weekend Starts Here!
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7 Midsummer 1987
Election Fever Grips Avalonia; Sector 23?; Election Address by the Political Wing of the Provisional High Command, Avalonian People’s Popular Liberation Experience; Stonehenge – free festival is on; The Avalonian Museum of Theological Artefacts; letters, rescued from various people’s dustbins.
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8 August 23rd 1987, The Avalonian Millennium
Demonic Divergence set for October 31st; ‘Invasion 87’ – Pete Loveday cartoon originally commissioned for the official Glastonbury Festival programme but not printed due to being too close to the bone; D.S.H.S. Bicycle Scheme; Fear & Loathing on Windmill Hill; Rev Boris Gestetner – Stonehenge ’87; ‘Are you Abnormal?’ – culled from the Church of the SubGenius.
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9 Late 1987
Hinkley Point – Mutant Seaweed plays Radioactive Havoc; Attempt to close down Unique Publications due to planning irregularities; D.S.H.S. Uncover Gun-Running Plot; Floods! Freak storm makes Avalon an island once again; Rev Boris Gestetner – Spy Catcher; Glastonbury Festival of Dance; Letter to British Telecom from someone who isn’t actually one of their subscribers.
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10 June 23rd 1988, Avalonian Independence Day
De-toxification programme for ageing rock stars; Michael Eavis buys Wiltshire; Unique Publications moves to the High Street – ‘financed jointly by MI5, the CIA, and the KGB’; More from the Church of the SubGenius – ‘Alistair Crook’s Letter from America?’
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11 Emergency Edition, October 1988
Glastonbury Demolished – town removed to make way for supermarket complex; Father Christmas motif based on fly agaric mushrooms – true or false?; Swami Barmi Incarnates; Little Known New Age Literature; Controversial Article about Tea Drinking – 23 Revolting Things that Tea Drinkers Do.
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Issue 23
The best from the Times of Avalonia. If you haven’t bought any of the rest, then you really do need to get this one. Cover illustration by guest artist Pete Loveday.
24 pages, A4 magazine.
Several copies still available at original price: £2.30