Category Archive for 'The Gathering 97/98'

I got this email from a Gatherer named David Montgomery the other day, and I liked it so much I asked him if I could post it here. He agreed, so here it is:
Hi Alison,
I have just watched the Gathering documentary. I was there. Watching those dance scenes just bought on such great feelings. That [...]

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Radio New Zealand are re-broadcasting their documentary The Gatherers, which first hit the airwaves back in December. I know from our web stats that heaps of you listened in and got inspired to visit The Gathering Archives website and blog, but just in case you missed it the first time around, or want to hear [...]

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Remember those videos I was talking about? Well, they’re all up online now.
We’ve got video from The Gathering 97/98, The Gathering G2000 and The Gathering G2 – and mighty fine it looks too. Thanks a million to Iain for making such high-quality copies for me to put on Google Video.
I suppose my personal favourite is [...]

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More videos

Well, a video, anyway…
I’m having a bit of trouble getting the high-res version of The Gathering documentary 97/98 online at Google Video – it took quite a few days to upload – and then it failed… I have no idea why. Rats! I’m trying again now…
So in the meantime, here’s a little news report [...]

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So my lovely friend Iain (who happens to be a film editor) brought his portable hard drive over to my place tonight. He’s been making me a super high quality version of The Gathering documentary 97/98 – all 11.5GB of it! Crikey!
Those of you who’ve already watched the large-screen version of the doco on Google [...]

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I’ve put a bunch more news items in the media coverage sections for The Gathering 96/97, 97/98, 98/99 and G2000. And there’s still more to come! I went to the library a couple more times last week and got a whole lot more. I’ll try and put them up over the next week or so.
I’ve [...]

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Over the last few weeks I’ve been spending a lot of time in the National Library, collecting media coverage of G1 and G2 for the website. As I’d parted company with the mighty G a few months before G1, I didn’t have nearly as many real newspaper articles as I had for earlier parties. [...]

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Woohoo! and yaay! I put The Gathering documentary 97/98 online over the long weekend! Just as well it was the “long” weekend – it took nearly 2 days to upload! Crikey!
I’ve put it on Google video, because it’s nearly 50 minutes long, and it wouldn’t fit on YouTube.

And if you want to view it at [...]

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