Latest about Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill's Incoherence offers a unique glimpse into the febrile mind of a restless genius
An ambitious peak from a prog maverick revisited
Van der Graaf Generator went down fighting with The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome
Peter Hammill remembers trimming down the music and the name to spend 18 months in a ferocious punk-tinged endgame that resulted in stunning live album Vital
Peter Hammill announces Italian live dates for November
Van der Graaf frontman Peter Hammill will also play two live dates in Athens in Janaury 2025
"It’s a maths geek’s love song to maths!" The story of Van der Graaf Generator's A Grounding In Numbers
Van der Graaf Generator's third reunion album, 2011's A Grounding In Numbers saw the trio working with shorter form but no less complex material
“A vivid, three-dimensional update… they outstrip the originals’ impact by some distance”: Peter Hammill’s In A Foreign Town / Out Of Water 2023
Van der Graaf Generator frontman has little to prove – but does it anyway with his revamp of solo albums hobbled by late-80s production values
“Am I Prog’s Taylor Swift? That’s a debate that could run and run”: why Peter Hammill re-recorded his Enigma-era albums
Van der Graaf Generator lynchpin cites pop star’s motivation behind his new versions of In A Foreign Town and Out Of Water
“I’ve been known to rant and rave… I had no idea that my words would be hostages to fortune”: but Van der Graaf Generator’s Peter Hammill doesn’t mind if quotes limited his success
He’s glad he never reached a level of success where someone offered to make him a star
A Van der Graaf Generator primer playlist
Here's our pick of some of the finest VdGG music over the years, from their 1970 debut to 2016's Do Not Disturb
