| 06/05/08 | Added the review in Classic Rock magazine of the QEH, London gig. |
| 05/05/08 | Added some pictures of David Jackson playing with Osanna in Rome to the News Page.
There is a new Newsletter up at Sofa Sound. |
| 22/04/08 | A Moscow page is now up. |
| 21/04/08 | Added yesterday's not-so-good review in the Sunday Times to the Trisector page. |
| 18/04/08 | PH has added the lyrics for Trisector on SofaSound so I have added the usual links to the tracks on my Trisector page. |
| 08/04/08 | There are now pages for the shows in Livorno, Amsterdam, Wolverhampton, London and Portugal. |
| 28/03/08 | The Easter 2008 tour is underway, so there is now a page for last night's show at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. A great show that featured five tracks from the new album Trisector. |
| 27/02/08 | Although not released yet, reviews of Trisector are starting to appear. The German magazine Eclipsed have made it their album of the month. |
| 02/02/08 | The Trisector page is gathering momentum... A review by Jim Christopulos has been added. |
| 22/01/08 | There is now a Trisector page - not much there yet... |
| 31/12/07 | As the year draws to a close, Peter Hammill has posted a new Newsletter on his website. The first few dates of the March/April 2008 tour are announced, along with some details about the new album, "Trisector", to be released in mid March 2008. Happy New Year! |
| 02/12/07 | Thanks to B Mcauley for this poster advertising the UMIST show of May 8th 1976, added to the Live List. |
| 05/11/07 | A great piece of history has emerged from Italy in the form of an 8mm film of what is believed to be part of the afternoon show in Ravenna on July 29th 1972. No sound of course, but there are some stills from the film on the Live List. Thanks to Simone Mazzilli and Silvio Amenduni. |
| 01/11/07 | I've just been listening to Dorie Jackson's first album entitled The Courting Ground and it's very good. Dorie's father David plays saxes and flute. Also out is a single by The Tribal Elders that's rather catchy and definitely worth a listen. Links on the front page. |
| 18/10/07 | Thanks to Nigel Allan for this ticket for Peter Hammill's show in Solihull on September 18th 1973, added to the Live List. |
| 12/10/07 | Ricardo Odriozola has written a musical guide to Pawn Hearts. See the Pawn Hearts page for details. |
| 03/10/07 | Thanks to Mick Capewell of www.marmalade-skies.co.uk for a new date: 7th November 1969 in Fulham. |
| 12/08/07 | Added a ticket (half ticket actually) for the gig in Marseille on May 22nd 1975 to the May 1975 French Tour page. Thanks to Pascal Marques for the scan. |
| 01/08/07 | Thanks to Toti Torruella, Jose Mari Agirrezabala and Crawford Scott for material from the San Sebastian gig. See the Live List for material from the recent European short tour. |
| 28/07/07 | Thanks to Luca Fiaccavento for some great photos of VdGG in Umbertide, Italy. See the Live List for material from the recent European short tour. |
| 26/07/07 | Thanks to Claude Wacker for some great photos of VdGG at the Berg Herzberg Festival in Germany last week. See the Live List for material from the current European short tour. |
| 06/07/07 | Added a poster to the Vital page. Thanks to Sean of www.couchnoise.com for the image. |
| 05/07/07 | Added a ticket to the Live List: 20th Nov 1977, Bordeaux. Thanks to Fred from France for the scan. I originally had this flagged as "maybe didn't happen", because it doesn't appear on Chas Dickie's date sheet (see The Book), but as Fred was there, I suppose it did. The gig was probably slotted in late in the day. |
| 01/07/07 | Added, what is believed to be, a Spanish promo to the Pawn Hearts page. Thanks to Gaeton Breton for the images. |
| 24/05/07 | Now that there is a short lull in VdGG activity, let's get back to the important stuff...
One new date added to the Live List: 3rd Nov 1969 in Glasgow, and an advert for the show at Klooks Kleek on 7th Jan 1969. Thanks to Ian Russell. |
| 23/04/07 | Check out the Live List for material from the current tour, including the show in Krakow. |
| 22/04/07 | Still adding stuff from the tour to the Live List, including yesterday's show in Poland. |
| 19/04/07 | Lots more stuff from the tour now added (Live List), including yesterday's review of the Barbican show in the Independent. There is also the piece that appeared in Friday's Independent on the Wolverhampton page. |
| 17/04/07 | Material is now gradually appearing from the last few gigs of the current tour: Live List. More to come... |
| 07/04/07 | There's more material up now on the individual German gig pages, accessed from the Live List, including a nice shot of the band's gear before the Hamburg show.
Also look out for an interview with Jim Christopulos (co-author of Van der Graaf Generator - The Book) on BRTO-Radio in the Netherlands. You can listen to a webstream on their site www.paperlate.nl. It's on between 19.00 and 21.00 UK time, Sunday 8th April. |
| 05/04/07 | The 2007 live tour is underway, and I've been setting up individual pages for the gigs on the Live List. Not much material so far, but hopefully some will be forthcoming later in the week when people get home. There are a couple of photos from Nurnburg though, and we have the setlists. Included are two new songs: Specs (re-named to All That Before) and Lifetime.
In the meantime, please send in any photographs or other virtual artfacts. All items used will be credited. |
| 22/01/07 | Added three new adverts to the Live List: Groovesville July 5th 1970, Marquee August 23rd 1970 and Starlight Rooms, Boston Sept 5th 1970. Thanks to Annette Palazzo for the scans. |
| 17/01/07 | Added The Long Hello single from 1977 to The Long Hello page. Reportedly it was also released in Yugoslavia where it reached Number One! Thanks to Herman Permentier for the scans. |
| 06/01/07 | Added an advert for the Chelsea College gig on Feb 20th 1971 to the Live List. Thanks to Mick Capewell of www.marmalade-skies.co.uk. |
| 21/12/06 | Added a picture of Guy Evans playing with Subterraneans to the News Page. Thanks to Sean Kelly. |
| 31/10/06 | Added a ticket for the Marquee gig on July 27th 1976, and a review of the next night, to the Live List. Thanks to Tim Toogood. |
| 30/10/06 | Added a ticket for the Victoria Palace show on October 16th 1977 to the Live List. Thanks to Tim Toogood. |
| 16/10/06 | Heart-throb Hammill in Sun Annual for Girls! |
| 29/09/06 | Added more information about bonus tracks on the forthcoming Peter Hammill solo re-masters to be released on October 30th: Over and The Future Now. Also released are: pH7 (Bonus material Mr X and Faculty X from the BBC - 12 Sept 79) and A Black Box (no bonus material). |
| 27/09/06 | News of the VdGG three-some announced. |
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