Gong 2000

The Gong family, including old members like Gilli Smyth, Didier Malherbe and of course Daevid Alien/Allen, celebrated their first gig of the new millennium on April 2000, in a London club called the Subterania. This is how the event is described in the sleeve notes of the DVD from which I've ripped these videos off:
It was the beginning of a new cycle for Gong. A new album, a new label, a new drummer, a new sinthesizer wiz, and a new agency with the potential for a fresh management vision. This was our first gig of the 2000 naughty naughties & aside from three thoroughly distracted rehearsals we hadn't played together for five months. To add to the pressure the gig was going out as webcast and eventually would become a DVD & live CD.
Somehow when the day came we forgot all this & it all morphed into a huge fluorescent fancy dress party with a bunch of our old tribal pals & friends old & new in a club in Portobello Rd. - for years the epicentre of our London lifetimes.
They were promoting the new CD Zero 2 Infinity, but these are brilliant versions of two great classics from their old repertoire.
Take a look at Gilli on You Can't Kill Me, it seems to me that she was under the effect of something. What do you think?

Gong - You Can't Kill Me (2000)
Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible (2000)

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