Gong is often referred to as a ‘cult’ band. Which we have always understood to mean, “a band which too few people love too much!” Psychedelic, electro jazz crossover, anarcho-pataphysical hippy idealist revolutionary nursery-rhyme, goddess mantra-trance delirium "Whatever Gong may mean to you, it's well possible that it means the very opposite to someone else." "I was in the position of being a psychedelic usher at the cinema of the French mind." - Daevid Allen. No other band has such immediate word association with 'hippies' as Gong, the psychedelic vision of Australian beatnik Daevid Allen. Gong emerged in the full flood of psychedelia, appearing on stagein 'pothead pixie' hats, and committing to vinyl a space-jazz soundtrack for getting stoned to - a notion that informed many of their songs, along with a breezy eroticism and sub-Tolkien allegory. Strangely enough, twenty years on, the old albums stand up surprisingly well, especially by comparison with the output of their more earnest mates in the era's progressive-rock scene.