planet gong news

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2022
Hansford Rowe signature bass guitar, Fabio Golfetti solo album with Gong guests, Medical Grade Music at Wolverhampton Literature Festival, Kavus Torabi at the Plymouth College of Art, Gong tour northwestern Europe, daevid allen in Shindig magazine, Steve Hillage releases archive album The Glastonbury Experience Live 1979, Gong play Glastonbury Festival, Elton Dean Quartet Live in Milan 1979 archive album, Craig McFarlane named Glastonbury town's first offical piper, Steve Hillage 'Golden Vibe Tour' announced, Arthur Brown releases a new album, Elton Dean & Steve Miller & Pip Pyle 1976 'lost tapes' album released, Funktion‑One prototype high‑intensity loudspeakers, Nik Turner journeys to the stars, Monty Oxymoron releases 2 new albums, Gong & Ozric Tentacles 'Joint Tour' debrief, Steve Hillage in Record Collector magazine, Gong in Uncut magazine
2021
Steve Hillage 'Searching for the Spark' box set comes and goes, Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi 'Medical Grade Music' book published, Monty Oxymoron 'The Cosmic Brain Explodes' book published, Nik Turner and the Space Falcons 'Interstellar Energy' album release, ProgFish74's Gong mandala-themed hand painted Fender Precision bass guitar, Gong Live at the Gong Family Unconventional Gathering 2006 double-CD release and DVD re-release, Gong Live at Longlaville 27/10/1974 double album release, Gong 'Pulsing Signals' live double album announced
2020
Gong live video teaser, the return of World Domination Enterprises, HUGE Flying Teapot poster, daevid allen Flying Teapot album cover sketch, 'Normal for Glastonbury' book
2019
new Gong album, Robot Woman Trilogy, Gong 'Virgin Years' box set, Radio Gnome Trilogy and Shamal re-releases
2018
Yamma debut shows, Gong studio album recording, Gong beginnings, Inverse Gravity Vehicle inspiration Professor Searl has left the planet, Gong 2019 tour dates, Steve Hillage Band tour dates.
2017
Didier Malherbe poetry book and performances
2016
heaps of new music from Gong, daevid allen, University of Errors, Dave Sturt, Blue Midnight, Steve Hillage, Nik Turner, and various artists… the death of Gilli Smyth, plus a brief Gong tour touching on England, Scotland, and Wales
2015
Gong - new video, tour, Radio Gnome Trilogy remastered + daevid allen hospital stories, curtain call, error australis books
2014
Gong 2014, System 7 + ROVO, PsiGong, Glissando Orchestra
2013
YOU ME & US = daevid allen + yumi hara + chris cutler; daevid allen caveman, Cinema Soloriens, "love is a careless sea" exhibition, with Invisible Opera Company of Tibet; Gong in Brazil, Hadouk in Tunisia, Graham Clark Quartet, Here & Now, Kangaroo Moon down under, Magick Brothers, System 7 + ROVO, Steve Hillage guitar masterclass, Rainbow Dome Musick rides again
2012
Gong, Cipher 'Past Lives', Hadouk go to India, Haggis pipes the Great Wall of China, Magick Brothers do Mallorca, Sentient
2011
Hadouk in the UK, MontyOxymoron and Graham Clark, University of Errors in Australia, Zero's Unconventional Gathering, Robert Calvert's "Mirror Mirror"
2010
Gong, Magick Brothers, University of Errors, Tarka (live performances), Hadouk in Africa, Here and Now return to scenes of previous crimes, Cipher 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari'
2009
Gong + Steve Hillage Band double bills, System 7 goes to Brazil, University of Errors, Magick Brothers
2008
System 7 'Phoenix', Brainville 3, University of Errors, Magick Brothers, Gong, Hadouk in Brazil
2007
Brainville 3, daevid allen over San Francisco, Acid Mothers Gong, Planet Gong / Here & Now + Gong Global Family, Brazil
2006
Elton Dean Tribute Concert in Paris, Tim Blake + JP Rykiel reunion concerts, Acid Mothers Gong in Japan, Mother Gong UK, Brainville, Zorch, University of Errors, Gong unConvention, Amsterdam, daevid allen in New York and San Francisco
2005
daevid allen "death ritual" Brisbane, System 7 at Glastonbury Festival, Gilli Smyth, Gong Unconventional Gathering in Glastonbury (2nd edition)
2004
Zero & Zero in Brisbane, Acid Mothers Gong in Japan, Here & Now at Glastonbury Festival, Gong Unconvention in Glastonbury (1st edition)
2003
Planet Gong on the Isle of Wight, you'N'gong, Acidmothersgong in London, University of Errors, Guru and Zero, Gong Matrices
2002
Guru and Zero, University of Errors
2001
Gilli Smyth "It's All a Dream", news & reviews, interviews
2000
Gong UK tour update, USA tour debrief, System 7 vinyl, sundry links (there be acid dragons)