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 ...

You can't have a serious conversation about the infancy of progressive rock without citing Van der Graff Generator (VdGG) as one of the genre's driving forces amid its influence back in the '70s and ...

Van Der Graaf Generator may have been early figureheads of the progressive scene, but their love of noise and chaos marks them out as one of the UK’s greatest avant rock bands. Joe Banks dives deep ...

A brand new film highlighting Van der Graaf Generator's only live show in the US from the 1970s, is to air this evening (UK time) on YouTube. Van der Graaf Generator - NYC '76 has been created by band ...

Order the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home! When punk hit, only a few ‘progressive’ bands were deemed acceptable; King Crimson, perhaps, but most definitely Van Der Graaf ...

Progressive rock—that bastion of early '70s music which lost its dominance with the advent of punk in the middle of the decade—has seen a recent resurgence of interest. And so it's no surprise that ...

So said a drawn-looking, jumpy Peter Hammill on 17 June 1978. He’s on Austrian TV, sitting on an unmade bed in a hotel room, with a cigarette in his hand – a packet of Camels sits on the adjacent ...

Some remained in obscurity because they were a little before their time – and some, quite frankly, were just too out there. Rockers We’ve Lost In 2013: Van Der Graaf Generator Bassist Nic Potter ...

So said a drawn-looking, jumpy Peter Hammill on 17 June 1978. He’s on Austrian TV, sitting on an unmade bed in a hotel room, with a cigarette in his hand – a packet of Camels sits on the adjacent ...

Van Der Graaf Generator are most certainly one of those bands. OK, the name’s slightly ungainly, and sometimes ditto the band – but by god, the one thing they weren’t (or rather aren’t, seeing as VDGG ...