"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
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Critic Consensus
Based on 7 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Gong is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. Gong concert reviews describe live shows and performances as lovely.
ON TOUR
Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands (November 8); MS Stubnitz, Hamburg, Germany (November 10); Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, Denmark (November 11); Debaser Strand, Stockholm, Sweden (November 15); Espoon kulttuurikeskus, Espoo, Finland (November 19); Hybrydy, Warszawa, Poland (November 22); CK Zamek, Poznań, Poland (November 23); Palác Akropolis, Praha, Czech Republic (November 28); Backstage Club, München, Germany (December 3); Café de la Danse, Paris, France (December 6); Le Grillen, Colmar, France (December 7)
Things are a little different this time round however as frontman Daevid Allen and his son Orlando are missing from the line up as Daevid recuperates from cancer treatment.
To some extent their style and outlook might be compared with Hawkwind but the material is rather more strange complex and steeped in a mythology that involves a continuing story (over several albums) about a search for enlightenment.
After a couple of years in the dark one of Birmingham’s better live music venues – The Institute – is back in action and the old girl’s looking mighty fine. It’s a lovely old building (dating back to the turn of the last century it’s one of the few that Birmingham City Council hasn’t knocked down over the yea
I've not seen them since a decade before that and as rain and wind battered the country we made our way to Exeter's Lemon Grove to see both the Daevid Allen led main event and the support act a rare appearance of the Steve Hillage Band.
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