Van Der Graaf Generator

Van der Graaf Generator – The Bath Forum Concert

Previously on TPA: “The show was filmed with a multi-camera set up so there will hopefully be a high quality record of this late period of the band’s career recorded for posterity.” – Jez Rowden Well, I’m here to tell…

Van der Graaf Generator – Interference Patterns: The Recordings 2005-2016

When old, disbanded groups reform many decades after their heyday, it’s generally to sell a few concert tickets to cash in on nostalgia, and perhaps even record a studio album that’ll inevitably be terrible, not worthy of being considered alongside…

Van der Graaf Generator

Town Hall, Birmingham 21st February 2022 by Roger Trenwith 21st February 2022 was a significant date, as it was the first date of Van der Graaf Generator’s much Covid-delayed tour, and also my first venture out to a gig for…

Van der Graaf Generator – The Aerosol Grey Machine [50th Anniversary Edition]

As luck would have it, just before I was told about the review download of the 50th anniversary reissue of the first album to bear the name Van der Graaf Generator becoming available, I had commenced on a trip through…

TPA Best Albums of 2016

2016 has been another very good year for music at the progressive end of the spectrum, a bumper crop of new releases to digest, and assimilate. On the down side, the genre has lost way too many of its heroes…

Van der Graaf Generator – Do Not Disturb

After Van der Graaf Generator split up following the release of Pawn Hearts, and while Peter Hammill was off pursuing his solo career, the other three in the band formed an occasional instrumental side project by the name of The…

Van der Graaf Generator – Merlin Atmos

Never averse to taking risks, all incarnations of Van der Graaf Generator were and are as close to the dictionary definition of “progressive” as any other band you care to mention. It goes without saying, but I will, obviously; the…

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