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The BBC Wales website is interviewing Gorky's and they need your questions! So if there is anything you want to know go to www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/features/pages/jg_gorkys_interview.shtml

Questions need to be in by 12th Feb.......... The full interview will be at the same address afterwards. (6/3/03)

The artwork for Gorkys new album 20: Singles Collection has now been released and can be seen here........ It also has a secret hidden track, a demo version of Merched..... (thanks to Joe Gooden for this info!) (2/2/03)

Gorky's feature on the new Ankst compilation CD, Radio Crymi Playlist Vol 1 1988-1998 which is released on 17th Feb and features tracks from groups that have featured on this fantastic label including Ffa Coffi Pawb, Topper, SFA, Melys, Y Cryff, Datblygu & Ectogram. The Gorky's tracks that are used are......

Merched Yn Neud Gwallt Eu Gilydd, Kevin Ayers, Diamonds O Monte Carlo, Iechyd Da (25/1/03)

Gorky's have a new album out on 24th February on Castle Music. Called 20 Singles Collection it's a contains tracks it contains all the songs from the 6 singles they released on Ankst. Alas there are no new or rare songs. The track listing is....

Merched Yn Neud Gwallt Eu Gilydd, Bocs Angelica, Mewn, When You Laugh At Your Own Garden In A Blazer, The Game Of Eyes
Pentref Wrth Y Mor, Cwpwrdd Sadwrn, Miss Trudy, Methu Aros Tan Haf, Eira, Why Are We Sleeping?, Gewn Ni Gorffen, 12 Impressionistic Soundscapes, If Fingers Were Xylophones, Moon Beats Yellow, Pethau, Lucy's Hamper, Heart Of Kentucky, Sdim Y Adar Yn Canu, 2D (8/1/03)

Gorkys have donated one of their tracks "Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water" for a charity album to make money for and raise awareness for the Freshwater East Coastcare Project which cleans up the beeches on the Pembrokeshire coast. The CD "Our Piece of Heaven" also contains tracks from other Pembrokeshire artists. More info at www.our-piece-of-heaven.co.uk(26/5/02)

Gorky will be playing at Clwb Ifor Bach on Saturday 25th May as part of a Unison gig with support from Squeezebox, Talkshow, JT Mouse, Aled Clifford & Georgia and runs from 8pm to 12am.(7/5/02)

Gorky's slot at the essential festival was cancelled at the last minute due to circumstances beyond their control but the Newtown festival is still on.Tickets will be priced at £5 and can be bought in advance from (01686) 622908. Camping is £5 a tent and you can get info from (01686) 670219 Festival website: cap.powys.org.uk/MayFest.htm (7/5/02)

Festival fever grows as Gorky's will be playing at the Newton May Festival, Powys on Friday 15th May. More info at cap.powys.org.uk/MayFest.htm - no ticket price details as of yet but it's £5 for camping. Also Gorkys are playing at the Essential Festival on Sunday 5th May on the SleezeNation stage. Tickets cost £35 (19/4/02)

Euros and Megan will be taking part in John Peel's Chrimbo spectacular on Radio 1 on Thursday 20th December from 10 till 12pm (13/12/01)

Channel 4 are repeating their Gorky's documentary on Thursday 27th at 1.50am featuring footage from the Bristol and London legs of the Mynci 2000 the sequel tour. (18/9/01)

The new GZM album How I Long To Feel That Summer In Your Heart will now be released on September 24th. To promote this they will being doing a special gig on 21st Sept at London Shaw Theatre where they will play the album in order and will be joined on stage with string and brass players and some guests artists which featured in the recording of the album.

They have also announced a full tour in October

SEPTEMBER
Fri 21st - Shaw Theatre, London

OCTOBER
Tue 2nd - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Wed 3rd - Pavilion, Brighton
Thur 4th - Boat Club, Nottingham
Fri 5th - Lomax, London
Sat 6th - Leadmill, Sheffield
Sun 7th - King Tut's, Glasgow
Tue 9th - Hop & Grape, Manchester
Wed 10th - Bangor University
Thur 11th - Fleece & Firkin, Bristol
Fri 12th - Swansea University
Sati 13th - Aberystwyth University (2/9/01)

To celebrate Manta's 5th birthday concerts Vitaminic have set up a mini-site at www.vitaminic.co.uk/specials/mantra . This features free mp3's from the bands playing and Gorky's mp3 is of How I Long which is from their next album! Also on the GZM page they have advance photos of the albums artwork.
There will also be reviews, interviews and a track recorded from the previous nights gig throughout the concerts.

As well as The Delgados taking up DJ duty, GZM will also be supported by The Toe and South. (3/8/01)

Will the gigs ever end? Gorky's will be supporting Manic Street Preachers on their 2 Reading/Leeds festival warm up dates. These are

AUGUST
Mon 20th - Conference Centre, Llandudno
Thur 23rd - CIA, Cardiff (13/7/01)

At long last the new Gorkys album "How I Long To Feel That Summer In Your Heart" will be released on 17th September. Both Norman Blake (who provides backing vocals on How I Long) and Teflon Monkey have contributed to the album. The track listing will be

Where Does Yr Go Now?
Honeymoon With You
Stood On Gold
Dead-Aid
Can Megan
Christina
Easy Love
Let Those Blue Skies
These Winds
How I Long
Her Hair Hangs Long
Hodgeston's Hallalujah

It will preceded by the single Stood On Gold released on 3rd September. (20/6/01)

Gorky's have been confirmed as headliners on Friday 3rd August as part of Cardiff's Big Weekend free festival. (20/6/01)

Even more gig action as GZM are confirmed to play in a series of gigs to celebrate their label Mantra's 5th birthday. They are playing at London Scala on Monday 6th August with The Delgados who will be doing a DJ set. (1/6/01)

Another live date has been announced with GZM playing Robert Wyatt's Meltdown at the Royal Festival Hall, London on Sunday 10th June supporting The Raincoats. (11/5/01)

Gorky's will be playing this years Reading and Leeds festivals. They will be on the second stage on Saturday 25th Aug for Reading and Sunday 26th for Reading. They are 4th on the bill below Mogwai, Teenage Fanclub and My Vitriol.(11/5/01)

Gorky's will be doing a short tour of Wales in May with Teflon Monkey as support. The dates are

MAY
Thu 16th - Yales Club, Wrexham
Fri 17th - Patti Pavilion, Swansea
Sat 18th - Municipal Hall, Pontypridd
Sun 19th - Queen's Hall, Narberth (9/4/01)

The new album has now been recorded. It should include the tracks Honeymoon With You (with backing vocals from Norman Blake), How I Long, Her Hair Hangs Long, My Honey, Easy Love Tough Jazz, Hodgestons Hallelujah, Where Does Yer Go Now and Stood On Gold. (27/3/01)

After helping out on drums for GZM at R1 Live In Cardiff gig Peter Richardson from Topper will be a permanent member of Gorky's following the sorry demise of Topper (28/1/01)

Gorky's feature in John Peel's Festive 50 at number 36 with Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water (31/12/00)

Gorky`s will also be on NME TV on Bravo which you can get on Satellite, Cable and Digital. It`s also on Friday 17th November at 11:30 pm with repeats on 18th at 12:40am and 19th at 10:30pm.

Gorky's will be on Sesiwn Hwyr on S4C and S4C digital on Thursday 16th November at 8:30pm (repeated on Tue 28th November at 11:05pm on S4C digital). They will be performing 4 songs and Topper are on the show as well.

As you can see this page now has a new title Gorky Dispenser to celebrate the merging with the Peanut Dispenser run by Rhodri Vinney. I'll be taking over most of the work with Rhods helping out as well as Phil Collings our resident axe who did all the Tab.
So what's different? Well the video and promo sections of my site are now gone and have been incorporated into Discogorky - somewhere you can easily get info on singles and albums and the lyrics and tab of all the tracks. This will be an ongoing thing and if you can fill out any of the gaps your help will be appreciated a lot. In particular if you have any live reviews or photos then please send them to me so we can make this the biggest source of live stuff.

The webchat on the 30th October was really interesting and funny. You can see a transcript of it at www.bbc.co.uk/wales/talkwales/gorkystranscript.shtml

We found out that How I Long For The Summer In Your Heart and Honeymoon With You will be on their new album which will be released next year. The drummer that helped out at the One Live gig at Clwb Ifor Bach on 24th October was Peter Richardson from Topper.

New mini lp The Blue Trees was released on 30th October, it includes the tracks
The Blue Trees
This Summer's Been Good From The Start
Lady Fair
Foot And Mouth '68
Wrong Turnings
Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water
Face Like Summer
Sbia Ar Y Seren.

Gorky's are playing at the Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff on 24th October as part of Radio 1's Sound City along with Melys.

According to the interview on the Official GZM website (www.gorkys.com) Euros Rowlands will be leaving Gorky's, however Rhodri Puw (aka Kappa man!) is now a member of Gorky's after passing his "audition"!!

The new mini album will include How I Long For The Summer In Your Heart, Honeymoon With You and the cover Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water.

For the Carling Weekend the Mynci 2000 line-up was used with a welcome return for Ashley Cooke and as always the infamous Gorwel Owen on keyboards

Poodle Rockin' was released on February 21st

Spanish Dance Troupe was released on 20th September and reached 47 in the singles charts (number 5 in the indie chart) in the first week. It also featured in the CD:UK viewers choice phone poll and came second with 27% of the vote. The Spanish Dance Troupe album was released on Mon 4th October on CD, Tape and Vinyl

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