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GONG

The Bur Oak

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Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm

The Bur Oak

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Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm (CDT)

The Bur Oak

2262 Winnebago St, WI 53704-5321, Wisconsin, Madison, United States

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GONG
Doors 7PM / Show 8PM
Seated Show
$30ADV / $35DOS

KAVUS TORABI vocals, guitar
FABIO GOLFETTI guitar
IAN EAST sax, flute
DAVE STURT bass
CHEB NETTLES drums

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 last studio album, Unending Ascending, was released in November 2023, and they are working on a new one to be released in January of 2026.

GONG’s musically diverse world includes shades of psychedelia, space rock, jazz, avant-garde, krautrock and surreal soundscapes.

GONG has completed a successful East Coast Tour this Fall performing in Allentown PA, Charlottesville VA, Raleigh NC, Grand Rapids MI, Chicago IL, Milwaukee WI, Detroit MI, Cincinnati OH, Indianapolis IN, Cleveland OH, Millersville PA, Rochester NY, Homer NY, Lowell MA, Hamden CT, Northampton MA, Hudson Falls NY, Woodstock NY, Baltimore MD and Rutherford NJ. Shows in Asheville NC and Franklin TN were cancelled due to the hurricane Helene. And the band is touring the West Coast USA in June and Midwest, East Coast and Eastern Canada in the Fall.


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GONG, 5 September | Event in Madison | AllEvents
GONG
Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm