GONG

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Presented by: Club 85

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0	HITCHIN: Club 85
P	Friday 29th July, 2016
N	7:45pm

Event information

It is with great pleasure that we present GONG playing this special one off warm-up show before heading off for the summer's festivals.

GONG
www.planetgong.co.uk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_(band)
www.facebook.com/Gong-Band-214206458788242
www.facebook.com/groups/planetgong

The current line up is ......
Kavus Torabi -(vocals/guitar)
Fabio Golfetti (guitar/vocals)
Dave Sturt (bass/vocals)
Ian East (sax/flute)
Cheb Nettles (drums/vocals)
They will be performing many of the old favourites as well as a few tracks from the new album scheduled for release on 16th September 2016 'REJOICE - I'M DEAD'.

Gong have had many, many line-ups. Formed when Australian beatnik/freak Daevid Allen quit The Soft Machine and moved to France at the tail end of the ’60s, before debuting in 1970 with Magick Brother, the band have remained fluid, even playing without their founder from the mid-to-late ’70s, fracturing and reassembling and constantly taking on new shapes and forms: an undeniably amorphous unit. David Bowie told Vanity Fayre in 2003 that Daevid Allen’s Banana Moon is one of his favourite albums, and today everyone from indie artists Temples and Ty Segall to hip hop artist Madlib and techno DJ Surgeon are inspired, and borrow, from Gong’s music and ideology. The funky grooves, avant-garde flourishes and counter-cultural stance is timeless. So timeless that Gong fully exists even without their creator and guiding light. For those who are unaware Daevid Allen died in March 2015.
So what is it that make Gong who they are? Their spontaneity and numerous Phoenix-like rebirths – this is just the latest installment. Nothing more, nothing less. New members and old coalesce, the sound unmistakably Gong.

Even without Daevid Allen, Gong will continue .... and long may it do so.

SUPPORT to be announced

DOORS 7.45pm
16+ with PHOTO ID
TICKETS: £15 advance or £18 on the door.

Advance tickets available from ....
www.wegottickets.com
and from our usual outlets of ...
Bar 85
Jolly Brown
Farleys
Unikorn - Stevenage
Davids - Letchworth
Vinyl Revelations - Luton

Club 85 is about 5 mins walk from Hitchin Station.
As with all our shows, live music will finish in plenty of time to catch the last trains north and south.