Latest about Van Der Graaf Generator
Rare, recently found 1976 Van der Graaf Generator live footage hailed as "extraordinary" by Peter Hammill
Watch rare, recently found live footage of Van der Graaf Generator playing live in Toronto in 1976
How doom and occult keyboardist Carl Westholm was converted by Van der Graaf Generator
Ex Candlemass and Avatarium member was won over by prog veterans’ Godbluff album – and it started with a photo of Mikael Åkerfeldt with Peter Hammill
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
How Jethro Tull broke America is the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
Plus Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Devin Townsend, Rick Wakeman, Big Big Train
“One doesn’t so much listen as feel it deep in the bones… their stark inventiveness and originality remain outstanding”: Van der Graaf Generator’s Still Life and Vital reissues
1976 studio album and 1978 live double album return from era of new momentum for Peter Hammill and co
"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
“We were making very peculiar music not particularly well played. We got a record contract because the record companies thought, ‘We better get weird’”: Inside the mind of Judge Smith, the man who named Van der Graaf Generator
Inspired by the work of bandmate Peter Hammill and Frank Zappa, Smith aimed never to sound like them – and after working on large ensemble pieces and stage musicals, admitted he’d quite like to “just roll in with a guitar”
“Our contemporaries had numbers that got people up on their feet cheering. We didn’t… We wondered if A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers was the way to go. I thought, ‘We can’t even play this!’”: Van der Graaf Generator’s struggle through the 70s
Keyboardist Hugh Banton on deciding not to emulate Keith Emerson’s stage persona, how he got the band signed, and why it took him so long to accept the “prog” label
