Name: GONG + Snorkel | BEDFORD
Start: 2025-11-08T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-08T23:00:00+00:00
Location: Bedford Esquires

GONG
+ Snorkel
8pm, Sat 8th November, Bedford Esquires
GONG are coming to Bedford Esquires on Sat 8th November.
The ever-metamorphosing entity that is GONG launches, as ever, into unknown – and unknowing – territory with new tours for 2025 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 as they continue propel forward in time for the next phase of this legendary band.
Gong’s musically diverse world includes shades of psychedelia, space rock, jazz, avant-garde, krautrock and surreal soundscapes.
Tickets priced £20 are on sale from 10am on Weds 30th April from Seetickets and in person from Slide Record Shop and Bedford Esquires.