Gong singer Kavus Torabi and bassist Dave Sturt took part in an interview with a difference – with the questions posed by snooker star Steve Davis.
As well as a remarkably successful career as a professional snooker player, Davis is known for his love of prog rock and he also works as a DJ – and has even penned columns for Prog magazine.
It was Davis who brought late Gong mainman Daevid Allen and Torabi together.
Torabi says: “I have been co-presenting The Interesting Alternative Show with Steve Davis for the last six years or so.
“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 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.‘”
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Gong released their 28th title Rejoice! I’m Dead this month. It’s their first without founder Daevid Allen, who died of cancer last year aged 77.
Gong Rejoice! I’m Dead tracklist
- The Thing That Should Be
- Rejoice!
- Kapital
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- Beatrix
- Visions
- The Unspeakable Stands Revealed
- Through Restless Seas I Come
- Insert Yr Own Prophecy