Known as: JON-ak
Real Name: Jonathan Rhys-Lewis
Date of Birth: Libra 1958
Family: Doctors/medical

Previous bands: Cherry Red & the Rhythm Kittens, The Armadillos, The Wrecked, Three Times a Day.

Current Band Jellybag

Previous Releases: "I Crave to be a Hermaphrodite" (7" single on Abstract Records), "Holy Spit, its some kind of monster" (cassette), "A doll said, 'A doll's head'" (cassette), "Was that you saying 'Shizik' just now?" (cassette), "Pok!" (cassette)
Favourite instrument(s): Drums (can play), Hurdy Gurdy (can’t play)
Home is: Essex
Place Of Birth: London

Recommended x 5 "Desert Island" albums:
"Starsailor" - Tim Buckley
"Ege Bamyasi" - Can
"Rockbottom" - Robert Wyatt
"Todd" - Todd Rundgren
"The Streets of New York" - Sha Na Na

Recommended x 5 "Desert Island" singles:
"Electric Heat" - The Visitors
"Terry keeps his clips on" - Viv Stanshall
"In my own time" - Family
"Release the bats" - The Birthday Party
"Breakfast with the Hueys EP" - Tin Huey

Recommended x 5 "Desert Island" Fictional Works:
"The Gospel Singer" - Harry Crews
"West of Rome" - John Fante
"UBIK" - Philip K Dick
"Under the Volcano" - Malcolm Lowry
"Gormenghast" - Mervyn Peake

Recommended x 5 "Desert Island" Non-Fictional Works:
"Get in the Van" - Henry Rollins
NME Book of Rock
"The Modern Antiquarian" - Julian Cope
"Wouldn’t it be Nice?" - Brian Wilson
"Damned to Fame; The Life of Samuel Beckett - James Knowlson

Favourite T.C. Lethbridge Book: The Essential T.C. Lethbridge
(the first one I read)

Worst habit: Nail biting
Addiction: Tea & chocolate

Recommend a great place to visit and why:
1. Callanish; it is everything it should be
2. Wrabness, near Harwich; it is everything it shouldn’t be

Desert Island Luxury Item: My wife, Caroline


JÓNAK?
A King, third husband of the tragic heroine GUDRÚN and father of the doomed heroes HAMDIR, SÖRLI and ERP JONAKRASSON. The legendary VÖLSUNGA SAGA gives the fullest account pf how Gudrún, wishing to kill herself, presumably after she has murdered her second husband, ATLI BUDLASON, and their two sons, falls into Jónak’s hands.
Eddic sources, notably HAMDISMÁL, make Erp Jonarksson a half-brother of Hamdir and Sörli, attributing to him a different mother.

Source: Orchard A. (1997) ‘Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend’ Cassell p.98