Van der Graaf Generator: Deluxe Vinyl LPs + European Tour

The last album by the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator was released in 2016, and there was a large collector’s box in September 2021. Now frontman Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans are back with a deluxe edition: In May, four of the band’s longplayers will be remastered on vinyl.

The end of the group was imminent

Re-releases of The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other, H to He Who Am the Only One, Pawn Hearts, and Godbluff will be available starting April 8th.

All four albums were remastered from the original tapes. The vinyl LP “The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other” features six songs from 1970, plus a poster. Among other things, the 23-minute track “A Plaque Of Lighthouse Keepers” will be heard on “Pawn Hearts”.

In addition to the four long-players, two more singles will be re-released on vinyl: “Refugees (single version) / Boat of Millions of Years” from 1970 and “Theme One / W” from 1972.

Van der Graaf generator on tour

In addition, the three musicians from Manchester will go on a European tour from April to May. Hammill comments on the tour “with great anticipation and excitement”: For him it has felt over the past two years “as if these often postponed shows would never take place and that this could actually mean the end for our group”.

In November 1967, Peter Hammill founded Van der Graaf Generator with Chris Judge Smith. The line-up changed constantly within the first few years and dissolutions of the group were also included. But the band always found their way back and released a total of 13 studio albums, six of them on the Charisma label.

The band’s name goes back to the Van de Graaff Generator, a device for generating electrical direct current. However, the naming did not result from a special love of physics, but rather from the fact that the inventor of the generator died in the year the band was founded and his name was therefore everywhere.

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