. Van Der Graaf Generator: The Bath Forum Concert (Esoteric) – “Well… Well well well”. The new Van Der Graaf Generator live album has just landed here, well the audio parts of what is actually a live box set containing both audio and visual formats of the band’s performance in Bath in the Spring of…
The editorial, the introduction bit and the Five music things thing for whatever it is all about. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A cure for pulling cats out of hats? Is there a rhyme? Is there a…
Esoteric Recordings have just announced the details of Van Der Graaf Generator: Interference Patterns – The Recordings 2005-2016, 14 Disc Box Set, via Cherry Red. The release date is set as September 23rd 2022. I guess this one was always going to happen after the success of the recent Charisma Years box set and album…
Shall we do it again, five more? The Five music things thing for whatever it still might still be worth. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? and why do we do all this? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A cure for pulling cats…
Two things of the day today, you can take the first one like you’d take something being pinned on the parish noticeboard, we haven’t got around to watching it yet what with all the other things demanding our time “Who Killed the KLF?” uses previously unheard tapes to explore the rise and fall of the…
Live review: Van Der Graaf Generator – London Palladium, 24th February 2022 – It has to be asked: would this show be like this if we hadn’t all come through two years of existential dread? It’s hard to tell, with Van Der Graaf Generator. Existential dread – or perhaps existential obsession is more accurate –…
Fresh Van Der Graaf Generator news, the band are of course on tour right now, the UK leg opened in Birmingham last night, was the small earthquake that happened under the city as the set was finishing just coincidence? 2.8 so they say, the band were playing Still Life at the time apparently. Anyway, “We…
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,…
The self indulgent end of year best albums list thing, everyone loves a list don’t they? Do like to wait until the actual end of the year though, we’re almost there now and well, here it is. Of course we haven’t listened to everything, of course we haven’t, we certainly haven’t reviewed everything – we…
We’ll just park these festive here and leave you to enjoy them, we’ll be back on the other side with more music, more art, more more and whatever else we do.. Happy Christmas everyone, look after each other here’s some classic Gryphon… And… A classic piece of 1961 cool from Roland Kirk and… and… See…
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