pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

A chat with Turkish television channel, NTV. More pics here at Flickr.

Andy, is that F sharp diminished? Click image to play
Almost a year ago I shot some footage of Sonic Youth working out one of their songs backstage before their performance at an All Tomorrows Parties show in the UK. Now it’s Gang of Four’s turn. I was not involved in the writing or recording of [...]

My first visit to Istanbul, Turkey and I can’t describe how fascinating this city is. Out last night until 5AM with the streets still packed and bustling well after I hit the sack. Slept all day then went to see the Blue Mosque, completely awesome - “The Sultan Ahmed Mosque- Istanbul Turkey– Topped by an [...]

Rehearsals last night went really well considering I left PDX at 11:30AM Wednesday, traveled for 14 hours, slept for four and started with the band at 6PM Thursday night…I woke up this morning (Friday) at 5AM, logged on, as you do, and discovered that the North Sea is surging and threatening to flood London and [...]

This was once the future - the Seattle monorail
After spending the last 3 days with various friends and acquaintances from my past days in the music industry and having made friends with some new, young web pioneers, I came to some more thoughts about new G4 music and its distribution.
01. We need to make [...]

This mornings low clouds coupled with the light reminded me of time spent in Sao Paulo this time last year on the Gang of Four Brazilian tour. More links - Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 1, Sao Paulo 2, Sao Paulo 3, Sao Paulo 4

Gang of Four live at Fuji Rock, Japan. 40,000 kids can’t be wrong - death to the CD!
So November 7th I leave for London - arrive Nov 8th, frantic rehearsals and then leave the 9th for Istanbul, Turkey where we play on the 10th, our first show since May when we played Bergen, Norway and [...]