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    Posted: June 21 2006 at 22:14
"Why this is very midsummer madness..."


Gong 2006 present
Gong Family Unconvention 2006
a joyous conspiracy


Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th November
full moon weekend
doors open 4.30 each day - till plenty past late


The Melkweg, Amsterdam
the main auditorium (for the bands) and the old hall (a green
room/planetgong cafe for all)


3 nights of musical magic - a melting feast of fooles?
So, so many things to see, hear and experience
And most importantly of all - You - having the grandest of
adventures - with us.


Gong
daevid allen, gilli smyth, steve hillage, miquette giraudy, tim
blake, didier malherbe, mike howlett, chris taylor + guests


Steve Hillage Band
steve hillage, miquette giraudy, mike howlett, chris taylor


'Waterfalls in Space'
tim blake & jean philippe rykiel

System 7
steve hillage, miquette giraudy

daevid unplugged
daevid allen, pepe milan, graham clark, mark robson + guests


Hadouk
didier malherbe, loy ehrlich, steve shehan

Glissando Guitar Ensemble
daevid allen, steve hillage, steffe, brian abbott, fabio golfetti +
others tba

Mother Gong
gilli smyth, didier malherbe, orlando allen, gwyo zepix, tim hall +
guests

Acid Mothers Gong
daevid allen, gilli smyth, josh pollock, kawabata makoto, higashi
hiroshi, yoshida tatsuya, atsushi tsuyama

University of Errors
daevid allen, josh pollock, michael clare, warren heugel

Kangaroo Moon
mark robson, david williams, elliet mackrell, jerry bewley, ian
campell, nick marshall

Here & Now
keith tha bass, steffe, steve cassidy, joie hinton

House of Thandoy
mike howlett, steve higgins, steve cassidy, w/theo travis

Eat Static
merv pepler, joie hinton

Toolshed lite
graham massey, graham clark,

Slackbaba
jonny 'baba'

Purusha
chris turner

Zorch
gwyo zepix, basil brooks

Sacred Geometry
mikey 'micro' cosmic, daevid allen + guests


plus

Harry Williamson
Cyndee Lee Rule
Kim Ray
Jackie Juno
Thom the World Poet
and more

Switch Doctors
venux de luxe, david id, pete 'skan', giles isaac

Illumination + Projections
colour sound experiment, antonio

Decor
liquid elf


Tickets are £99.00. Prices are inclusive of VAT, credit card fees
and postage - there is nothing else to pay.


Loads information on all the artists, travel & accommodation - all
you wanted to know about Amsterdam and more in fact is on the
Planetgong web-site http://www.planetgong.co.uk.


Note: If you have already ordered a ticket your confirmation number
will be along shortly - we are a bit behind - sorry about that.


Transmutation - Gong style - or how to get from there to here (& now)


Everybody seems to have a bit of Gong 'his/herstory' about them -
Gilli Smyth views this unique state affairs as, "a family of souls
sailing along in a large Gong boat, you board when you choose,
travel far as you wish, then disembark and wonder what 'that' was
all about?". Daevid Allen just says with a mischievous
twinkle, "Whatever Gong may mean to you, it well possible that it
means the very opposite to someone else". Whatever Gong is, a band,
a state of mind or even a real invisible luminous Green Planet that
exists in super-space and due to materialise in 2032, there's always
been precious little to grab hold of and 'sell' in the modern
commercial music biz sense - which, despite the 'hardships' that may
bring, we generally consider a blessing.

In 2001 after 61 gigs in 79 days the members of Gong were,
well...dazed, and as often happens, mildly dissatisfied with our
attempts at trying to transcend the 'regular' rock gig ambience and
paradigms. Our close community of hermits dispersed across the world
once more, with no plans to reconvene - possibly ever.

Then in 2004 a young, enthusiastic Gongster, Chris Cambridge,
contacted me about putting on a Gong convention. I laughingly
advised there was little conventional about Gong - call it
an 'Unconvention', and said I was there to help in any way that I
could. With the willing aid of many others, and headlined by old
Festival stalwarts Here & Now and current festival stalwarts
Kangaroo Moon, the select gathering went ahead in the Glastonbury
Assembly Rooms in Oct '04 and a high old time was had by one and all.


Sparked once more by young Mr Cambridge we decided to do it again in
2005. But as the somewhat chaotic plans unfolded and Chris got
carried away booking too many bands there was definitely 'something
else' in the air and I urged him to leave space in the schedule.
Being a two day event this time we also needed someone with a deeper
knowledge of organising events, in case what I thought could
possibly happen, did. Chris Hannam was just the man. During his
decades of experience in the music industry one job he did for years
was stage-managing the main stage at Glastonbury Festival. In fact
Daevid Allen, Chris H. and myself had spent many a happy hour
wishfully 'planning' an ultimate Gong Festival - removed from many
of the usual paradigms of the music biz.


Sure enough the space was needed, almost at the eleventh hour
original Gong members Tim Blake and Didier Malherbe came on-board to
join Mike Howlett for the 2005 Unconvention, Gilli Smyth decided to
travel from Australia (you can't keep a good woman down-under), and
Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, booked to play with their
wonderfully uplifting System 7, decided to stick around for the
second night, and Steve said, "as there are so many ex-members of
Gong - wouldn't it be good to have a jam?" - and it was so. I think
the old Assembly Rooms levitated. It was an almost transcendental
celebration of the essence of Gong, whatever that is - and of course
completely different for every person there.


So to this November and the Gong Family Unconvention at the Milky
Way (Melkweg) in Amsterdam, scene of many an uniquely odd Gong
experience. As Mr Hillage said, "How can a band that never really
formed, never broke up, and have always been together energetically
have a reunion?" - so it ain't that. However with Daevid Allen
coaxed from his poetry writing, drawing existence in Bryon Bay,
Australia, (not hard as he is always up for an adventure), the 3rd
Gong Family Unconvention promises to be something quite
extraordinary indeed.


All the pieces are in place for full Planetary interface between
Gaia and the luminous Green planet Gong. The Octave Doctors have
established contact, musical vibrations seldom attempted in the
modern era and sights and sounds the like of which have not been
seen nor heard for many a long year will almost certainly occur, and
most importantly of all the family, new and old, artists and
audience (or art-activists as Daevid prefers), can gather together
for the grandest of adventures.


So whether you can be a part on the Uncon or not, and you know you
don't have to be there, to be there, and whatever you attend this
year - enjoy with consciousness and heart, it's how we have always
transmuted 'troubled' times into golden days.


a joyous Solstice to you,


Jonny
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PO Box 871
Glastonbury
Somerset
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UK

tel: +44 (0)1458 833 040

email: [email protected]

url: http://www.planetgong.co.uk


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