KANGAZANG! PODCAST #5 ENTIRE FIRST EPISODE!

Here's a treat for you – the entire first episode of Kangazang! the audio experience! Read and performed by the sixth Doctor Who, Colin Baker, it's 25 minutes of pure audio sci-fi fun and adventure!

KANGAZANG! PODCAST #4

In this podcast, Terry talks about the late, great Douglas Adams and how he was a key influence for writing Kangazang!

KANGAZANG! PODCAST #5

Listen to the trailer for Kangazang! Featuring the voices of Doctor Who's Colin Baker, actress Claire Cage and author Terry Cooper himself! The 3-CD box set comes with a bonus DVD full of lovely extras including interviews and animations!

KANGAZANG! PODCAST #3

Our heroes Jeff and Ray meet the Hoppas – cute but fearless inhabitants of the paradise planet Kangazang!

KANGAZANG! PODCAST #2

In this clip, Kevin Overlord of Skragg meets the most feared beings in the entire galaxy – tax inspectors!

IT'S THE FIRST KANGAZANG! PODCAST

Listen to an excerpt from Kangazang! the audio experience (as read by Colin Baker):

TERRY APPEARS ON ROY NOBLE SHOW!

Kangazang! author Terry Cooper appeared on the Roy Noble show today to talk about his efforts to rescue Luke Skywalker's home in Tunisia as well as discuss the Kangazang! follow up, Star Stuff. He also managed to do a few impressions of Alec Guinness and C-3PO!

You can listen to the broadcast here.

 

www.kangazang.co.uk

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KANGAZANG 2: STAR STUFF EXCLUSIVE SIGNING AT COMIC GURU CARDIFF!

Kangazang! author Terry Cooper will be making an appearance at the legendary Comic Guru in Cardiff on the 24th March 2012 for an exclusive signing of the much-anticipated sequel, Kangazang!: Star Stuff.

Kangazang!: Star Stuff is a continuation of Jeff Spooner's travels through space with his alien barber Ray. After saving the Universe, their adventures are kicked off once again as Ray's father goes missing (and insane) and Jeff's girlfriend (an android) runs off to find him the child he always wanted.

Terry will be in store signing all Kangazang merchandise and there will be no less than forty exclusive preview copies of the book left to sign, so don't wait to get in and grab your stuff! We're excited to be teaming up with The Comic Guru - Cardiff's premier comic book store (and the UK's greatest online comic retailer, no less!) who have been a terrific supporter of all things Kangazang!

Also, look out for the Comic Guru film crew who will be recording a special edition of their regular video blog (who knows, you may even get to appear on camera with the guru himself!)

www.kangazang.co.uk
www.thecomicguru.com
www.candy-jar.co.uk

KANGAZANG 2 COVER ART!

Well it's been quite a while since we were here updating the blog, but here as a 'Hot-Off-The-Press' treat, is the cover art for KANGAZANG!: Star Stuff, the second in the trilogy!

As with the first book, The cover and style is intentionally made to follow the same kind of aesthetic appeal, with minor refreshments (No, I don't mean very small cups of tea and biccies!)

Here it is! Cover and layout by Author TERRY COOPER

And here it is front-on so to speak.....

WHAT CAN THAT MACHINE-CREATURE BE?

Well, it's not what it looks like at first sight. But it's very important and you'll learn more as time goes by!

Why not PRE-ORDER your own copy of KANGAZANG!: STAR STUFF now, so you get it as soon as it comes off the presses in February 2012?

Just £11.99! Visit www.candy-jar.co.uk and check out their online shop to do it! Go! Go!

WELSH AUTHOR RECRUITED FOR NEW DR WHO EPISODES (APRIL FOOLS!)

April fools, everyone!

KANGAZANG AUTHOR TO PLAY SUPER SLEUTH

Hubbub team member Terry Cooper has just landed the role as Baker Street super sleuth Sherlock Homes in a forthcoming audio drama by Misfits Audio.

Terry is excited about playing the eponymous detective: "I've loved Sherlock Holmes ever since I was a teenager. He's one of those timeless characters that everyone loves. He's enigmatic, intelligent and witty. I think most actors would relish the chance to play him."

With a renewed interest in the character thanks to the recent movie starring Robert Downey Jnr and the BBC series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, the adventures of Holmes and Watson are finding a newer, younger audience.

"I think it's great that they've updated Sherlock for modern times," says Terry. "It just shows what a great character he is - whatever time or situation you place him in, he just gets on with the job of solving crimes in his inimitable way.'

These new audio dramas will be written by Alexa Chipman and based on the Orson Welles radio plays. Alexa has updated the 1939 script to modern times using contemporary language and settings. It will be released for the 2011 Summer Season of Sonic Society.

Terry is an author, illustrator and actor. His most recent project - Kangazang! - is available to buy from www.kangazang.co.uk

What do we like....?

We like:

• 1980's pop - Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue and Bobby McFerrin!
• 1970's TV - Vision On, Doctor Who!
• Spider-Man and Batman!
• Star Wars - Especially Artoo Detoo and Stormtroopers!
• Space Hoppers!
• Star Trek - Shatner and Nimoy Ahoy hoy!
• Facebook! Not Myspace! {--boo
• Ebay is fun! But addictive - Just say NO kids!
• Cardiff! Home of Kangazang Towers!
• Bill Bailey - Remind you of anyone we know? (Scumpbag?)
• Marc Warren - From Hustle to Wanted to Teatime to.... Spooner?
• Claire Cage - she looks like and RHYMES with Betty Page!
• Douglas Adams - The GUVNOR!
• Robots
• Aliens
• Alien Robots
• Robot Aliens!
• etc...
  

A Site for sore.......Ears?

Well, I'm pretty excited! After what seems like yonks of waiting and developing, tweaking (ooh!) and adjusting, the KANGAZANG! website is finally here!

it's www.kangazang.co.ukjust so you know!

We've got the Audiobook CD set being made AS WE TYPE! and the Second Edition book is getting a final check to fix any of my typos (ha! as IF!) and then it'll be over to the monastery, where Gregorian Monkeys will painstakingly rewrite thousands of copies with their inky quills.

The site has been lovingly crafted by the Candy Jar team (www.candy-jar.co.uk and the genius of Aimee, who's petite frame hosts the biggest brain in the world, from 3D & 2D animation, coding, art, design and everythig else, (juggling, stilt walking) and she's mad ethe sit ethe wonderful place that it is!

She's designed a selection of OSSUM wallpapers for free download on the 'media' page of the site! GO get one! Get three!

PRE-ORDERS are now coming in for the products, which is also very exciting. The choices are:

• 1) Second edition book
• 2) Audio CD set (4 discer)
• 3)SuperMegaDoubleCombo - Book and CD set - at a discount price!

Special mention to YOSS, MARK and VIRGINIA who were the very first intelligent beings to place a pre-order. Yoss is from the UK, Mark is from Belgium and Virginia is from Germany! How international is THAT?

Of course I will be signing their products and sending them out as soon as they come in!

It's all very busy and a little chaotic as you can imagine, but the advertising and marketing is beginning now - the general plan is to tell everyone in the known universe about KANGAZANG! and get them to buy a version of it!

Join the big push! Onwards and Upwards! Per Ardua Ad Astra! Excelsior! Freedom or death! (not literally) And other such motivational phrases!!!

KANGAZANG! r e m o t e p o s s i b i l i t i e s

Space.

The Final Frontier.

(Well, not unless you count time, alternate dimensions, thought travel and a myriad of other ethereal media through which one can safely travel without being atomically shredded, crushed, fiddled with or recombobulated into a sixty-five foot long bratwurst. Trust me - it's happened before.)

This is the blog of KANGAZANG - the universe-spanning saga of one man's travels to the furthest reaches of the galaxy and beyond. A quest to find truth, meaning, love, justice... And a decent pint and a kebab.

There will be books to document the saga:

• KANGAZANG! remote possibilities - First instalment and introduction to our heroes.
• KANGAZANG! star stuff - Second part, chronicling the deeper implications.
• KANGAZANG! [as yet untitled] - Third (and possibly final) part. Who knows?

Stay tuned to this blog as we divulge impotent information about the book/audiobook/movie/facebook group/twitterfeed/national craze that's taking the Geekiverse by storm!