GONG at The Iron Horse

Name: GONG at The Iron Horse
Start: 2024-10-15T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 18 Center St Northampton MA 01060

Schedule

Tue Oct 15 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

18 Center St Northampton MA 01060 | Northampton, MA

GONG
at The Iron Horse
Tuesday, October 15th
SHOW: 7:00pm / DOORS: 6:00pm (Separate Bar Area will be open prior to venue door times)
ADV TIX:
Reserved Seating: $25 / $23 MEMBERS
General Admission Seats: $20/ $18 MEMBERS
Tuesday, October 15th at 7:00pm
TIX HERE: https://theparlorroom.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SV5000001AGm6MAG
The ever-metamorphosing entity that is GONG launches, as ever, into unknown – and unknowing – territory with new tours 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 re-joining’s, deaths and rebirths – there has always been a continuous thread of beautiful, dangerous and extraordinary music.
The current holders of the flame have come together over the last eight years; sinuous bass player Dave Sturt joined just as the album 2032 was shown to the world; Ian East (Sax, Flute) was the next to blow in through the portal; Fabio Golfetti brought his guitars from Brazil (after working with Daevid Allen for many years); Kavus Torabi (lead vox and guitars) appeared to Daevid in a vision; Cheb Nettles (drums) just sort of turned up.
In 2015, Daevid Allen passed away. His influence and legacy were honoured on the band’s subsequent album, Rejoice! I’m Dead! (2016). In recent years GONG has performed with the Steve Hillage Band (himself a former member of the 1970s GONG line-up) and released the critically acclaimed album The Universe Also Collapses (2019) and a stunning new live album Pulsing Signals (2022) captures the band at a creative peak with tracks drawn from their 2019 tour. Their new studio album, Unending Ascending, was release in November 2023.
Gong’s musically diverse world includes shades of psychedelia, space rock, jazz, avant-garde, krautrock and surreal soundscapes.