planet GONG archive

recent interviews

Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy
Acid Before House — System 7's 'Flower of Life' : what attracted us to acid house wasn't so much the house, it was the acid - Bill Kopp, the tonearm
Gong
Bright Spirit - part 1 : a new trilogy perhaps? - Facelift magazine
Bright Spirit - part 2 - the Gong sound palette : glissando guitar, safe sax, vocal harmonies - Facelift magazine
Bright Spirit - part 3 : touring with Henge, playing Kozfest, banana‑moonlighting - Facelift magazine
Steve Davis
Focus: The Utopia Strong : if I thought my previous career was a one in a million mind blowing experience, maybe this current thing is even more crazy! - Narc magazine
'down the modular synth rabbit hole' - Ben Rogerson, musicradar
Fabio Golfetti
Facelift : The Canterbury scene(zine) :
introduction
part 1 - the formative years
part 2 - Violeta de Outono
part 3 - The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet and the Daevid Allen connection
part 4 - the glissando guitar
part 5 - Gong
Kavus Torabi
Banishing Point : a kind of grounded psychedelic trickster - Jonathan Wright, The Quietus
'Polymath and Renaissance man' : on touring with Ozric Tentacles, Gong's new set, the Unending Ascending album, macrocosmicity, flying teapot-shaped swimming pools, new solo album, 'Lion of the Lords Elect' collaboration for Roadburn festival, etc. - Gaz Cloud echoes and dust