VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR TO PLAY REUNION CONCERT
Hugh Banton, Guy Evans, Peter Hammill and David Jackson will perform at the Royal Festival Hall in London on May 6th 2005. Tickets
are available from the RFH ticket office (www.rfh.org.uk).After the „classic“ line-up got together and played „Still Life“ at the end of Peter Hammill's solo gig at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
in February 2003, the guys started thinking about playing and recording together again. In September, after a summer of email
exchanges, they held a band meeting and planned a get-together for February 2004 at Pyworthy in Devon.Peter Hammill's heart attack threatened to scupper these plans but having made a speedy recovery they went ahead. This wasn't an
exercise in nostalgia and no old Van der Graaf material was played all week but instead a serious amount of jamming went on and work
done on several new numbers.During the summer of 2004, Hammill, with input from the other three, worked to put together a double CD for release in the early
part of 2005. Whilst the Royal Festival Hall gig is a one-off, there is talk of further gigs as long as the vibe remains favourable,
and more recording in the Autumn.
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Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...