Van Der Graaf Generator’s UK tour is now less than a month away, the rescheduled dates really do look like they will be happening this time, and so, without wishing to tempt anything, a message from Peter Hammill regarding the upcoming VdGG tour as it appeared a day or two ago on his website…

“Astonishingly, it’s been years since my last post. For a lot of that time, obviously, all life has been in some kind of abeyance. Now at last things seem to be on the way to starting up again. Exactly fifty-one years ago today VdGG were starting the famous Six Bob tour with a show at the Lyceum in London. Fifty-one years ago tomorrow we were playing at Birmingham Town Hall on that tour. So there’s a measure of synchronicity at work here: in exactly four weeks from today we’ll be back in the Town Hall, kicking off the latest leg in VdGG touring. At times over the last two extraordinary years it’s seemed that these often rescheduled shows would never happen and that effectively that might mean the end for our group. So it’s with joy and excitement (and the usual pinch of trepidation) that we’re now in the private study stage of rehearsals, knowing that the real thing will be upon us before we know it. The UK run is a short one; in a couple of months we’ll have the long stretch through the rest of Europe to do. It’s going to be a blast.”

For the full European tour dates go here

UK dates…

21 Feb 22 England, Birmingham, Town Hall (Info)
22 Feb 22 England, Manchester, Bridgewater Hall (Info)
24 Feb 22 England, London Palladium (Info)
26 Feb 22 Scotland, Edinburgh, Queens Hall (Info)
01 Mar 22 England, Bath, The Forum (Info)

And if you still don’t know wht we’re on about, then put a moment or two aside and play this, it says far far more than we can.

Previously on these pages

ORGAN THING: The re-issued 50th Anniversary edition of Van Der Graaf Generator’s Pawn Hearts, surely one of the finest albums ever made?

ORGAN THING: And then there were the other three, Van Der Graaf Generator’s Godbluff, Still Life and H To He Who Am The Only One reissued, four properly classic albums and… 

ORGAN THING: List time, our top albums of 2021, who made it? Gazelle Twin & NYX, Peter Hammill, Michael J Sheehy, Black Country New Road, Robert Calvert, Flying Luttenbachers, Deerhoof, Van Der Graaf, Alex Ward, Charlotte Greve, the Commoners Choir and…

ORGAN THING: The new Isildurs Bane and Peter Hammill album is out today, hear it all here or tastes of it on The Other Rock Show…

ORGAN THING: Isildurs Bane and Peter Hammill – In Disequilibrium – A first listen to and the details of the new album…

ORGAN THING: Van Der Graaf Generator updated UK dates and re-issue special editions news including Pawn Hearts on its 50th anniversary, oh and The Osiris Club…

ORGAN THING: Van Der Graaf Generator, The Charisma Years – I mean, catch hold of that BBC session version of Killer from 1970 and tell me it isn’t laced with punk rock danger…

ORGAN THING: A new Van Der Graaf Generator single, all the box set and re-issue news and notes, well a new mix and a rather beautiful one, Refugees…

ORGAN THING: Peter Hammill’s new album In Translation reviewed – these may not be his songs, but this is classic Hammill…

ORGAN THING: Peter Hammill’s In Translation, the sleeve notes and release date for the new album…

ORGAN THING: Katy Carr’s rather wonderful stripped back version of Van Der Graaf Generator’s Afterwards…

ORGAN THING: A first taste of a new Cheer Accident album, the day they covered Peter Hammill, some Tainted Love and the times Marc Almond did as well…

ORGAN THING: The Stranglers fronted by Peter Hammill, with Robert Fripp in the mix, posted today in celebration of Dave Greenfield…

ORGAN THING: Some recently found Van Der Graaf yellow fever, a new Dieterich & Barnes video and the artcore of Tokyo’s Wombscape…

ORGAN THING: The best albums of 2019? Le Grand Sbam, Poil, Peter Hammill & Isildurs Bane, Helium Horse Fly, Child Abuse, Throwaway, Flying Luttenbachers, John Ghost and…

ORGAN THING: A rare piece of Van Der Graaf Generator found in an attic, a touch of Crass and the punk rock stress of Rats From A Sinking Ship…

ORGAN THING: “I don’t normally big up bootleg Vids and the sound gets pretty murky here but, well, I guess a lot of people would be interested to see this…” said Peter Hammill

ORGAN THING: A first listen to the album Peter Hammill and Sweden’s Isildurs Bane have just made together, is it any good?

ORGAN THING: A man just knocked on the door, a postman, a package, the latest Peter Hammill album, a live album called X…

ORGAN THING: Is it possible to be too Peter Hammill? Is that vital spark maintained? Is it there on open display? A new album is upon us…

Oh, there’s loads more, we’ve been covering them since this Organ thing started somewhere in the last century…