Gadzooks - the planets have aligned at last and GONG's new album 'Unending Ascending' has graced our universe! Here's all that you need to know about the new record in celebration of it's arrival today... To celebrate the album's release today GONG have unveiled a new, out of this world video, see below. 'My Guitar Is A Spaceship' was..
Ozric Tentacles unveil visualiser for title track ‘Lotus Unfolding’
ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 20th VIA KSCOPE WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW! PRE-ORDER HERE (https://ozrictentacles.lnk.to/Lotus_Unfolding) Having returned with their announcement of their new album previously, fans at long last can hear the first sample of what to expect on the up-coming Ozric Tentacles release 'Lotus Unfolding'. Today the band have made available a beautiful visualiser that takes us inside the world of..
Ozric Tentacles Announce New Album “Lotus Unfolding”
Ozric Tentacles return with their new excursion into the worlds of the magical and brilliant with another aural treat in the form of 'Lotus Unfolding' out October 20th via Kscope. One of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK's festival scene, Ozric Tentacles formed during the solstice at Stonehenge Free Fesetival 1983, going on to become..
STEVE HILLAGE BAND / THE UTOPIA STRONG – Manchester O2 Ritz, March 25 2023
The show tonight is less about the individual tracks and more about the overall vibe of the evening, with heavy passages and ambient interludes changing places like the interlocking of the tectonic plates PHOTOS: CHRIS WALKDEN This is one that I've been eagerly anticipating ever since Steve Hillage last trod the UK boards in late..
GONG – The Old Courts, Wigan, 11 March 2022
[You Can't Kill Me is] a brilliant rendition, so tightly played that all of the tricky time changes and false starts and ends are executed with the precision of a Swiss watch-maker, while the familiar propulsive riff and defiant chorus are flung out in a way that leaves no doubt that this particular Gong can..
Photo: Stephen Heliczer
GONG: THIS IS THE MOMENT AND NOW IS THE TIME – Twice rescheduled UK tour finally commencing February 27
The ever-metamorphosing entity that is GONG launches, as ever, into unknown – and unknowing – territory with a new tour for 2022 destined to be talked about, discussed, and argued over, up and down the land. From its beginnings in a French commune in 1967, through the Virgin Records years, mismanagement, court cases, break-ups and..
GONG ANNOUNCE NOVEMBER UK TOUR
Having spent the last few years touring the world, including dates in Japan with psych legend Steve Hillage, multiple headline European tours and festivals, America’s Cruise to the Edge festival, a South America headline tour and a headline performance at Tomorrow Festival in China, the band have won the hearts of both traditional and modern Gong fanbases. During this..
STEVE HILLAGE / GONG – Liverpool O2 Academy, 23 Nov 2019
Everyone with an interest knows the Steve Hillage story by now. After a few years following his departure from Gong when he effectively had the mantle of ‘aging hippie saviour’ thrust upon him, he abruptly walked away from a style of music which he was quietly revolutionising, and disappeared into the world of trance music..
HRH PROG VIII – London/Sheffield 26 Oct 2019
PHOTOGRAPHS: SHEFFIELD: Chris Walkden, LONDON: Graeme Stroud The eighth installment of the ongoing HRH Prog festival came in an intriguing format: the same identical weekend line-up simultaneously in two cities, London and Sheffield, but with the days reversed, so that the Saturday line-up in London played on Sunday in Sheffield, and vice versa. That's a..