Sofa Sound
6/1/2012
A new Fie! release will be out on Feruary 13th and we're now taking advance orders for it. Rather than nattering away here it's probably best just to direct you straight away to its page.
A new journal entry, which actually mirrors the information on the release page, is now up here.
Enough for now. The next studio album continues apace. More news will be in shortly.
Another date is now booked in for VdGG in 2012, the Montreal Jazz Festival on July 3rd. We're very pleased to be going back there. Of course, this does mean that we're looking at more dates in between the two festivals!
We're delighted to announce that VdGG will be appearing again at Nearfest on June 22nd 2012.
We've just discovered, somewhat unexpectedly, that ITV have now deleted the VdGG "Metropolis" DVD, with immediate effect. So we've had to remocve it from the Order listings. Apparently rights have now reverted to the Metropolis organisation, so they may be putting it out again under their own steam; we'll try to keep you posted as and when more news comes in....
The last Fie! release was a double live: "Pno, Gtr, Vox", is now out. You can order it here (at only £10.50 + p&p) and you'll find a bit more information about the album on its own page here.
Some more news about the continuing non-appearance of the Metropolis show in broadcast form. It seems that the person under whose wing the whole project was at ITV has left the company and in the way of things (see A&R Depts. for ever) this means the series has foundered with them. Approaches are being made to Sky Arts and VH1 and of course as soon as there's any news we'll put it up.
Some time back I made a contribution to a Tim Bowness (Burning Shed, No-Man) project which is now out. It's called "Warm Winter", by Memories of Machines and it's available from Burning Shed here. There's also a lot more info about the project there as a whole. Btw I'm on electric guitar on this one!
Finally the lyrics for "A Grounding in Numbers" are up at the appropriate page. As ever, you can either navigate alphabetically from the main lyrics page (5533, by the way, is filed under "F") or directly from the "Grounding" page.
What remains of the merchandise which we sold on tour has now found its way to Sofa Sound and so it's now up at the orders page on a first come, first served basis.
There are: Limited edition Lithographs of the "A Grounding..." cover (and I suppose you know by now what that looks like!) on heavyweight paper, 20" square and signed, incredible as it may seem, by all three of us...and two T shirts, one for "A Grounding" and one for "Trisector". Both are black, black, black with some red & white imprints. Available sizes vary and once they're gone they're gone.
As you'll see here, the "Grounding" T is just a front print, while "Trisector" is both front and back.
"A Grounding in Numbers", the new VdGG disc, can of course be ordered here.
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.