Gong - Steve Davis interviews Kavus and Dave at the Nomadic Community Gardens
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
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Gong reveal the unspeakable to Steve Davis, in support of new studio album 'Rejoice! I'm Dead!'
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Filmed at Nomadic Community Gardens, Shoreditch, London by George Laycock of Blacktide Phonic/Visual
“I have been co-presenting The Interesting Alternative Show with Steve Davis for the last six years or so,” says Kavus Torabi, Gong’s singer and guitarist. “In 2011, Steve rang up excitedly saying ‘You'll never guess who we've got as a guest next week... Daevid Allen.’ I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I'd met Daevid briefly a couple of times with Tim Smith [Cardiacs] but never properly. As a lifelong Gong lover, this filled me with delight. Straight away the two of us seemed to really click, within minutes the conversation had taken a turn for the absurd and I was more than a little flattered when he told me, after about an hour, ‘You're a poet man, I can tell."
And now, Kavus’s radio co-presenter Steve Davis interviews Kavus himself about being the singer of Gong. The film you are about to watch, or are watching, was shot in the Nomadic Community Gardens, in London’s Shoreditch. Davis talks with Kavus and bassist Dave Sturt about carrying on Gong’s legacy, taking it forward and throwing their own take into the fold. Why did they continue? What’s the future? Watch this enlightening interview and you will find out.
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When I was doing mushies on the local golf course as a kid in the 80's, you would have blown my mind even further saying I'd hear Steve Davis sing 'Have a Cup of Tea' in the 21st century.
True Progress!
Interesting
I remember casually glancing at the snooker one afternoon on BBC2 many years ago and seeing Steve Davis as pundit wearing a Camembert Electrique T-shirt
And being somewhat surprised, I meant to add!
Gong is, was and will always remain one of the seminal bands of free-floating, anarchic (in the best sense of the word) music. Madly in love with all incarnations of the band. Keep the legacy of Allen alive, but also continue to write more new music.. Thanks!!!!
steve davis and gong lol never in my life would i have guessed this
Steve davis and gong hes go up in my world
Steve Davies - legend and Gong guru: who would have thought he'd be in the frame and on cue for this role, never snookered for a comment, he has this interview in his top pocket! Rejoice is a brilliant continuum of the band's legacy.
Great Shot !!! ikr Steve MR BORING Davis lol very cool
sd is awes. loves his techno too
Kavus has huge credibility via the Cardiacs, so is a great replacement. I saw Gong in Macclesfield (of all places) about 10 years ago and was lucky enough to chat with the band who were really nice people. Steve Davies is a huge (and pleasant) surprise in this video; great stuff!
Can't wait for Gong's version of "Snooker Loopy".
Spot on there my friend - that would be interesting???
LOL just gotta lol I just looked at the thumb n went surely not that Steve... but COOL MAN
This is so funny. I'm so glad the gong family is going to stay alive..Steve Davis...What a funny fellow..
This is strangely awesome.
Very interesting interview. Found it purely by chance when playing master builder on youtube. A real eye-opener that the snooker Maestro is a gong fan. I'm still in shock. He's a damn fine and funny interviewer too. He must have bought Camembert Electrique about the same year as me (circa 1974).
Snooker World Champion, Chess Grandmaster, but potentially Steve's greatest achievement- Gong member!
Tim Blake is working with Hawkwind.Great on Angel's Egg.
just goes to show...you never know!!! Steve Davis!!! who'd have guessed? Gong...early 70's (Hillage, Blake and all) ...awesome band!
Steve Davis ? A Gong fan!! who would have guessed that ?? Just heard a couple of tracks of the new album sounds great - going to add it to my collection - Kavus and Dave please bring this wonderful band to Norwich to play a gig PLEASE!! - Very fortunate to have seen the band with David a couple of years ago at the Arts Center in the City , may I suggest the waterfront or the owl sanctuary next time??
Wow Steves a better interviewer than everyone else i've ever seen regarding music, he's amusing and knows what he's talking about with no pretense,
When his modular system was just a twinkle in Mr Davis' eye.
I met Steve and Kavus last year, ‘‘twas beautiful
I want ‘Rejoice I’m Dead’ played at my funeral. I miss Daevid Allen but the current incarnation of Gong is great and it will always live on.
Long live GONG...come to Canada...
I am you are we are Gong
And we are all the Egg, man!
I am stunned.Steve interesting Davis digs Gong! Well fuck me sideways. Has he done mushrooms? Imagine Snooker on the mushies 😂😂ffs. Man this shit is cray!🔥
Excellent interview, thanks. Steve is a legend.
Wow. Steve Davis ..... a Gong Fan!"!! :)
Gong is one of my favourite bands of all time. The first time I heard them was Boxing Day 1982 and the track was BaBa Blacksheep have you any bullshit, I know the Here and Now band was mixed in there, but wow what a track.
Loved Gone before and love them now, so glad the spirit of Gong lives on.
3 legends together....bliss!
yeah im a big snooker fan but i worshipped alex higgins and steve was his arch nemesis and i thought he was boring as fuck but then i heard he was a magma fan i realised he was cool beyond my wildest dreams. Then one day i turned on the telly to see steve commentating the snooker and he was wearing a camembert electrique t shirt on, what a lord, he must be the only gong listener not to have a toke, not that it mattrers he,s got exceptional taste in music
How do you know he doesn't toke?
I think he's very obviously an old acid head from my daze in the very early 70's & 100% a toker smoker too. Without this background you just wouldn't 'get' Gong's lyrics let alone rattle them off like Steve did :)
I also used to think Davis was as boring as fuck as I was a Higgins fan aswell.
I later discovered he's well into his music and not a humourless boring old fart at all!!
Turned out it he could only play as well as he did by intense concentration.
Moral of the story?
:Don't judge a book by the cover.
:)
Brilliant in every way
I'd like a dollar for every bong that has been smoked to Steve Hillage and Gong.
Fuckin ell Iam only a few seconds into this and I've just seen Steve Davis sing a bit of Gong . Well Iam now complete .
The editing on this has me in stitches :,)
Time is fake!
Great interview bar one point!! I'M NOT DEAD YET!! I'm an original Gong fan that was into them from the Radio Gnome series daze! So there are some true original believer's from back then (The original GONG fan's)that are not only still alive but like the 'Rejoice I'm Dead' album :) 1
Never mind all that...
Where does Kavus get his fabulous shirts?
Steve walked on to Radiohead at tournaments. Should have been 'you can't kill me' !
Brilliant
Asking again and again.. PLEASE come to the USA. DONT"T MAKE ME COME TO YOU!! I WILL! lol #PlanetGong
"The Isle of Every where" is one of my favorite tracks.
By the way this track is from 1973 and has synthesizer sounds on it. A very spacie track.
And Amenandwoman. to carrying on for a remaining. All love. The music should be performed by all who love and strap it on.
That looks like a wasteland by the side of the Hammersmith & City Line ... Or somewhere on the way to Acton. Was it a market? Was it squatted ex industrial land with a wacky shack village?
Didn't realise that was STEVE Davis. That's mental. I got into Gong at about 13 yrs old I suppose. All the early stuff. 'You' wasn't too long out. Allen left. Shamal came out. It was OK. I bought it. 2 yrs later- PUNK was the thing. Then Gong came back as Planet Gong and I saw them. That LIve in Paris 77 LP also came out of nowhere and had its moments- but was aleady history: It was only available on import from an obscure French label) Saw Gong another couple of times. End of the century and not long into the new one. I'd seen Hillage too in the mid 70s. Great. Allen had also released solo stuff the biggest sensation being 'Now is the happiest time of Your LIfe' (His solos up to that point are essential Gong) That made an impact despite punk being the main thing. I was in senior year in school by then and that album was passed around among the freak contingent. We trod an odd line between punk and psych. We weren't the only ones- Thus 'Here & Now / Planet Gong. Last show I saw was with Allen and Gilli around 2012 I suppose. Weird atmosphere at the gig. Angry people. I was irritable. A pissed Geordie was looking for a fight (knowing he wouldn't get one). Anyway--- I'm not a fluffy psych person anymore. I'm getting old and I'm witnessing a very hardline, bloodthirsty religion hammering Europe while the press kid on it isn't. I notice the 2nd Cold War happening with China refining what the USSR began - Watch Yuri Bezhmenov on UA-cam for details but don't expect a convincing conclusion to his speech) So... where now? We will see
the new Gong album is great!! :-)
So glad that gong lives....long live the psychedelic hobbits xx
FUCK ME! It is actually STEVE DAVIS Steve Davis? well, bend me backward and call me Wendy!
Ole barrel of laughs Snooker Steve?
(just took me 5mins to scrape myself off the floor there! WOW!)
Please let Steve Davis in the band
Very unexpected connection between SD and Gong!!!!!!!!
Daev and Gilli Allen are alive and eternal
If you make it stateside you'll find a warm reception in Seattle. Just sayin'.
Don’t miss who’s afraid album w kramer, it’s fantastic
Hahahaha mental
.this is ace..SD well funny
Cool
Were Take That alive in '74? \m/
Why doesn`t Orlando play drums with the current band?
steve space rock davis
In the right environment,,,,,, hehehehe
"7 years ago
NEW 2019 album OUT NOW."
I don't understand...... It's 2024, isn't it?
2019 album out 7 years ago....so.....it's 2026?
What the serious feck?
Not Gong
Squeezing sponges on policemens heads mannnnn
This is purely a Gong Tribute Cover band. No where near as good as the original PLANET GONG.
ghost b(r)and
Not exactly gong tbo watched them twice and there not that good been into gong 35 yrs wouldnt bother watching these masquerading as gong
Come on man . With Davids' encouragement and blessing, and you call it 'masquerading' ?
I saw them twice in Manchester last year, the show with the Ozrics. They were really spot on. I was a lucky enough to share a pint with David when he was around in the early 2000's, I plucked up the courage to ask him for a drink and an autograph, which he duly did, and then spent half an hour politely answering my chemicalised questions, and wished me the best of luck with the band I was in at the time.
Absolute gent. What a night✌️
O great another Yorkshire git 😖
I can't stand kavus
That's your problem to work on not his...
Crikeys .Kavus is a very talented man and has got the look to front gong. How can you hate him. You probably dont even know the man. Unbelievable
A great Bob Marley track, "No Daevid No Gong". (I'll show myself out....) In all seriousness, and despite that I don't know enough about the full Gong history to know who these blokes are, this is one of the best interviews I've ever seen. (I did however recently acquire at great expense, an original French LP of Camembert Electrique, which has become one of my favorite LPs of all time in a short time.)
Steve Davis ? A Gong fan!! who would have guessed that ?? Just heard a couple of tracks of the new album sounds great - going to add it to my collection - Kavus and Dave please bring this wonderful band to Norwich to play a gig PLEASE!! - Very fortunate to have seen the band with David a couple of years ago at the Arts Center in the City , may I suggest the waterfront or the owl sanctuary next time??
I knew he was a long-standing Magma fan, but Gong? That really surprised me
He appeared on the BBC during the Snooker coverage in a Camembert Electric Tee-shirt years ago, so the Gong/Snooker cross over fans were already aware.
Well not much of a snooker fan myself so all news to me?? A Magma fan to as well ?? he is going up in my expectations , what next Robbie Savage reveals himself as a Ozric Tentacles Devotee ?????
tim wigby LOL. 'Tis true. Steve DJs his own prog radio show, writes a regular article for Prog Magazine, and appeared in one of the first editions of said magazine showing off his collection of classic prog and space rock vinyl. He is definitely "one of us."
Well you learn something everyday here on the old "you tubes" don't you??? Sounds like his "Prog" credentials are better than mine but that is fine with me !! Any one out there heard of a German band called "Sand"??? Just discovered them 1970's space rock/prog? Good stuff - How about Neptune Towers ?? A ambient/Electronic outfit from Norway (a side project of Fenriz from black metal band Darkthrone believe it or not) very tangerine dream retro synth ??