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16/06/2009

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We've got the visas, we've got the e-tickets, the gear has been picked up....

VdGG is on its way back across the Atlantic!

As a result the entire complement of the SofaSound operation is, for a week, heading off across the water, so please forgive us if any orders put in over this period take an extra seven days to be shipped....

And three shows are now confirmed in Italy at the end of July/start of August....

"Thin Air " is out on June 8th and we are now taking orders for it. A new newsletter has also duly arrived.


You can also now purchase downloads here, thanks to a new arrangement with burningshed.com.

An extra US show is now added in Boston. A show in Quebec City has now been confirmed and there is an additional one in Canada. We 'll also be doing a show in Boston. The full dates for the East Coast/Canadian VdGG tour in June/July are now up at touring. It seems right to announce them now as many of the venues are selling tickets already. We should be getting our visas next week....

Hugh Banton is now selling downloads of his version of Holst's The Planets. You can find it here. A Download of the Goldberg Variations, previously out on disc form is also available.

There are a couple of DVD releases in the pipeline, which are going to come out on Voiceprint. First up will be the (trio) VdGG show at the Paradiso, which was on Fabchannel until that disappeared quite recently. We're also looking at the legendary K group Markthalle (Hamburg) Rockpalast show. More may follow.

The solo stint in Japan  was once again very enjoyable and featured a wide range of songs!

Bad news: the dread hand of Classic Rock, under yet another name change both of label and of product, has once again appeared. The laughable (and laughably bad) "Inside VdGG" has been repackaged as "A Plague of Lighthouse-Keepers". It's the same old exploitative rubbish of course. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Brighter news: a Universal/Polydor compilation CD has now been released covering the Underground years; "People You were Going To" and "Firebrand" are included! It's called "Spirit of Joy".


It'll probably be of interest to some of you in the USA that EMI have now imported copies of the Japanese limited edition "LP sleeve" VdGG remasters and they're now available at Amazon.com.

Many moons have passed...but you may also be interested, now, to go and check out www.peterhammill.com where, finally, some lyric-labyrinthine adventures await, thanks to the indefatigable labours of Adrian. More on this anon, but it's only right to let you know that something's been/is afoot there....

Regarding the site...
The intention here is to have a fundamentally "white paper" place from which information rather than entertainment (or information as entertainment) can be gleaned. To this end the site should be under fairly constant revision. Once again, my apologies for being negligent in this regard over the last few months.