Sofa Sound
9/5/2013
We'll now be playing in Italy at the start of July as well. One final date has now been added to the list, in MIlano on July 3rd.
Well, I've been far from diligent of late in updating news here at Sofa Sound, even if hard news is a bit thin on the ground at the moment.
Partly this is the result of my continuing commitment to maintaining an online journal - at sofasound.wordpress.com if you haven't yet come across it. I began doing that in part because I realised that items I put up here on the latest news page have traditionally been erased and overwritten as new stuff comes in - and of course it's now some time since the newsletters ceased being my favoured form of updating news. But in turn that's meant that I've been slow to put things up here. Must try harder....but of course the dissemination of info these days is spread over a number of different channels in any case.
(And should you be interested I also have a twitter identity, @Sofa_sound. My contributions there, though, are pretty random and sporadic....)
A few pieces of news, then.
A number of interviews are now up and about. The most recent is by Anil Prasad at his excellent site www.innerviews.org - quite an in-depth piece, this, covering a lot of ground.
Back in January I also made some contributions to a Radio 4 piece about the sequencing of album tracks. They managed to make me sound neither too foolish nor too pompous and it's still available online (possibly only in the UK) here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q95y6
A while ago I also did an interview for FromeFM, a local community station, which has been stitched into an hour-long show, effectively acting as an introduction to a wide range of my stuff. You can find that here: www.fromefm.co.uk - go to programmes, music features, Fragments - Peter Hammill.
And finally I've also contributed to the interesting site threepieces.org where you're welcome to do your own exploring.
Revolve, the team who did T shirts for us in the US and Japan, now have an online store where they can be ordered, though I guess postage outside the States will be pretty prohibitive. In any event, it's here: http://shop.revolvemerchandise.com/collections/van-der-graaf-generator
As I wrote some time ago we're no longer stocking the Virgin catalogue, either solo or VdGG. TheCDs are, of course, still available elsewhere and if you're interested we recommend that you go to Burning Shed to purchase them. (We've also begun to put in direct links to their Hammill/VdGG pages from the individual CD pages, though they're not all there yet.)
And finally...yes, I've been getting on with the next set of solo recordings; but I've also been involved in a collaborative project with Gary Lucas, the incendiary guitarist, so progress on both projects is...gradual.
And in the last couple of weeks I've been busy budgeting potential tours. Expect news very soon!
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.