Between the impact of the COVID pandemic since 2020, and in the eight year-long tenure of King Crimson's final lineup, which toured between 2014 and 2021, there's been a lot revealed about its sole ...
A brand new biography of one of prog's most intruguing characters, Van der Graaf Generator frontman Peter Hammill, is to be published in November. "At over 500 pages, and illustrated with hundreds of ...
Not everything I've done has been touched with absolute fairy dust. It's not easy listening, and it's not meant to be. I'm not Neil Diamond. Musician Peter Hammill isn't a household name, and his ...
Peter Hammill's first North American solo visit since 2008 includes just two stops: in Montreal on Wednesday, June 1 and Quebec City on Thursday, June 2. "I like the idea of these being very specific ...
On paper, this alliance might seem like an improbable encounter. Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Peter Hammill is revered for his work with the legendary progressive rock unit, Van Der Graaf ...
For over 40 years, Peter Hammill has been a cult figure in British music. Both solo and with Van der Graaf Generator, he has pursued a highly distinctive career around a seemingly endless series of ...
Van der Graaf Generator's Peter Hammill has announced three live dates for England and Scotland for September and October, his first UK solo shows for seven years (Hammill has toured mainland Europe ...
The recent Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971-1986 box set captures Peter Hammill performing in Montreal in 1974. His scorching rendition of German Overalls – his psyche-shredding account of Van der ...
Not just a reissue, this is a complete reworking of these two albums from Peter Hammill, originally released on 1988 & 1990 respectively. Hammill decided that the two albums suffered from a dated ...
At the end of 1976, after three albums over the remarkable two years since their reunion, Van der Graaf Generator were making some of the best music of their career. However, they were increasingly ...
"Hope I die before I get old," Roger Daltrey declared in The Who's 1965 song "My Generation". Pete Townshend, then 20, wrote the words in the voice of a speed-gulping mod, a raging adolescent ...
Peter Hammill's 2010 gigs in Tokyo ended up providing the basis for a sprawling, 7 CD box set of live recordings that presented the prog rocker's songs in a stripped-back setting – as indicated by the ...