yentone
pfm Member
Just reading one of the newsletters I get from The Wire and spotted this :
"....all staff are working remotely on the forthcoming June issue. In terms of what’s in the issue, it’s early days yet, but one thing we know for sure is that the cover story will be a two-part special on those eternal outliers of UK underground art rock Van der Graaf Generator.
In part one of what promises to be an epic survey, Emily Bick talks to group members Peter Hammill, Guy Evans and Hugh Banton about their 50 years of collaboration; while in part two, Mike Barnes, author of A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s, contributes a Primer on the group’s back catalogue, as well as singer and songwriter Hammill’s parallel and prodigious solo output.
The group is currently preparing a major box set of all its albums for release, and Hammill is about to issue a solo album of cover versions, as well as a new collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous (aka Future Sound Of London), so the timing is right we reckon to go big on one of the few groups left who survived the prog era intact."
So that's plenty to look forward to! I've literally just received the May issue, so about a month to wait.
Thoughts and recommendations for this influential band?
"....all staff are working remotely on the forthcoming June issue. In terms of what’s in the issue, it’s early days yet, but one thing we know for sure is that the cover story will be a two-part special on those eternal outliers of UK underground art rock Van der Graaf Generator.
In part one of what promises to be an epic survey, Emily Bick talks to group members Peter Hammill, Guy Evans and Hugh Banton about their 50 years of collaboration; while in part two, Mike Barnes, author of A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s, contributes a Primer on the group’s back catalogue, as well as singer and songwriter Hammill’s parallel and prodigious solo output.
The group is currently preparing a major box set of all its albums for release, and Hammill is about to issue a solo album of cover versions, as well as a new collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous (aka Future Sound Of London), so the timing is right we reckon to go big on one of the few groups left who survived the prog era intact."
So that's plenty to look forward to! I've literally just received the May issue, so about a month to wait.
Thoughts and recommendations for this influential band?