Sofa Sound
16/06/2009
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.