GONG gathering - 21/22 Oct Glastonbury
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Topic: GONG gathering - 21/22 Oct Glastonbury
Posted By: NutterAlert
Subject: GONG gathering - 21/22 Oct Glastonbury
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 08:17
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The 2nd Gong Family Unconventional Gathering The Second Coming...so its called is at Glastonbury Assembly rooms on 21/22nd October. Tim Blake, Gilli Smyth and Steve Hillage (System 7) will be there. Details at http://www.unconventional-events.tk/ - http://www.unconventional-events.tk/ ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 10:22
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I wish we could attend, but alas, our funds are limited, and we already spent a lot of money on travelling around this year. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 10:46
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That's a shame Friede, knew you'd be interested. Still, you've got VdGG popping round to see you both in a few weeks I may go as I need to de-stress myself (even having bust ups here now ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
) and this sounds like it could be a fabulous weekend.Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 11:38
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I went to the 25th anniversary back in 94 and it was great. I help organize with a few buddies a mini-festival that WE in Braine-Le-Comte (30Km SW of Brussels). ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 11:57
I read about 25th anniversary show, it sounded fabulous, must have been great fun to be there. ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 12:28
The double CD of it is excellent. Steffie Sharpstrings of Here and Now
replaces Steve Hillage, and Pip Pyle jumps in for the late Pierre
Moerlen (who was still alive back then, but was stuck in a contract to
play in "Evita"  ). Else it is the classic Gong line-up (Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Tim Blake, Mike Howlett, Didier Malherbe).
------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 13:50
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which double CD?
BTW, has someone heard the new Allen, Sacred geometry II? The I is excellent! And what about "Glastonbury Fayre '71"? i'm afraid sound is average.... On another hand, "Gong Sherwood Forest 75'", despite average sound and technical problems, shows the band at its best, especially Steve. 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 11 2005 at 14:00
The one from the 25th anniversary concert. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 05:16
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Actually that record is missing in the PA. Yup the whole thing was magick - everyone that ever played in Gong was present except for Hillage ans Moerlen. And the guys meddled in with the crowd! Memories...... ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: November 07 2005 at 11:51
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Did anyone go to this?? I missed it in the end, but just heard the following..... "The climax of the proceedings was a 90 minute jam comprising Steve Hillage, Tim Blake, Mike Howlett, Gilli Smyth, Didier Malherbe, Steffe Sharpstrings, Theo Travis..."
Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn and blast! ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
