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PETE GIOCONDA’s songs are notable for their unique sound fused from new wave, pop and folk/rock influences, mingling poetic lyrics with a punk attitude and playful unpretentiousness. Youthful songs of mischief, desire, loss and sadness, plus transcendent perceptions . . . “Gutsy folk/rock with a nod to Marriott/Dylan and Ray Davies.” Pete Gioconda grew up on a small island. After studying in London, he began to write poems and explore his surroundings – hitching round Britain several times, including the Outer Hebrides and Orkneys, “heavenly with a girl”, and the south and west of Ireland.

Douglas Noël Adams (11th March 1952–11th May 2001) was an English radio comic dramatist and novelist, most notably of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime), as well as a television series, a stage show, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams's death.