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    Posted: February 23 2005 at 13:34

      I'm not sure whether anyone has already posted this up and I have missed it but in case noone has Van der Graaf Generator's new album (the first one since 1978) is to be released (in England) on April 25th and will be entitled 'Present'.It will be a double cd cd 1 being songs and cd2 being improvisations some websites are already taking advanced orders and details of these can be found on Phil Smarts site at www.vandergraafgenerator.co uk The band has also announced further dates to their reunion 'tour' in Milan and Rome after the fast sellout of the tix at the RFH gig in London these may well fly fairly quickly too I personnally hope they do more UK shows or Paris which is easy and cheap to get to these days( and a wonderful city to spend some time in!)

        I for one can't wait to hear this new material as I have been an avid fan of PH/VDGG for about 25 years never been fortunate enough to see the full band live(they disbanded before I became enlightened) so the prospect of seeing them now fills me with absolute delight I CAN'T FLIPPIN' WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Your link is not working, here is the info. referred to.

This is the best news I heard in a while, the anticipations will surely start to torment me soon
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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2005 at 11:58

The First 3 VdGG albums (The Least We Can Do... H to HE and Pawn Hearts) are to be re-issued to co-incide with the bands reunion 'tour.'
They are remastered,re-packaged and...wait for it...added to !!!
I presume that the rest of the catalogue will be staggered throughout the rest of the year.

More details can be found at Peter Hammill's Sofa Sound
website on the Open (white paper) Letter Page.


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VdGG hit Leicester Saturday 9th July 2005!!!
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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 15 2005 at 13:15
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:


The First 3 VdGG albums (The Least We Can Do... H to HE and Pawn Hearts) are to be re-issued to co-incide with the bands reunion 'tour.'
They are remastered,re-packaged and...wait for it...added to !!!
I presume that the rest of the catalogue will be staggered throughout the rest of the year.

More details can be found at Peter Hammill's Sofa Sound
website on the Open (white paper) Letter Page.



Update on the above info

First 3 remastered albums released 30th May

Godbluff , Still Life and Fool's Mate (Hammill Solo)
remastered released 27th June

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Why don't they come to Holland?
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http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00080JDNC/qid=1113423 583/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/171-3945441-8513025

You can hear 30 second extracts from the new album here.  Sounding good to me.
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Points: 3047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 15 2005 at 17:54
I CAN'T WAIT!!!
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I WISH THEY'D COME TO AMERICA --- NOT A SHOT IN HELL THOUGH --- TOO BAD.
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Peter Hammill was interviewed on the Danny Baker Show BBC London 94.9FM this morning.He described the new remastered back catalogue as superb in quality and very loud.The show can be heard via the BBC London website.Click on the Danny Baker page

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Bonus Tracks on remastered albums.

The Least We Can Do...
Boat of a Million Years (Alternative Version)
Refugees (Single Version)

H to HE...
Squid/Octopus - Live in the studio during the Pawn Hearts Sessions
Emporor in his War Room (Alternative Version)

Pawn Hearts
Theme One (Alternative Version)
Angle of Incidents* (Guy Evans track intended for aborted
side 3 of Pawn Hearts)
Diminuition* (Hugh Banton track)
Ponker's Theme* (David Jackson track)

* Tracks were to be included on the originally intended double album.

Godbluff
Forsaken Gardens
A Louse is Not a Home
(Both recorded live in Rimini 9 Aug 1975)

Still Life
Gog
(Recorded live in Bangor May 1975)

Fool's Mate (PH)
Early Demos of:-
The Birds
Sunshine
Happy
Re-Awakening
Summer Song (In the Autumn)


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