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After spending most of the eighties in his native Australia, Allen returned to the UK in 1988 with a new project, the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, whose revolving cast included the likes of violinist Graham Clark and Didier Malherbe.

This morphed into GongMaison and by 1991, the name Gong was again in use, by which time early drummer Pip Pyle had also rejoined.

The band released the album Shapeshifter ( subsequently dubbed Radio Gnome part 4 ), followed by extensive touring.

In 1994, Gong celebrated its 25th birthday in London, including a performance by most of the ' classic ' line-up, including the returning Gilli Smyth and Mike Howlett.

This formed the basis of the " Classic Gong " band which toured worldwide from 1996 to 2001 and released Zero to Infinity in 2000 ( by Allen, Smyth, Howlett and Malherbe plus new recruits Theo Travis and Chris Taylor ).