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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Just glad still to be alive!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

I never mer Mark Hollis but always had the feeling that he was a co-tunneller under the surface of what that pop music might mean. Here we are, there we went. RIP

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Peter Hammill

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2 years

I guess it's about time that I said I'm doing ok. No long term repercussions from my surgery in Fürth (where my treatment was outstanding). It also has to be said that it was a close-run thing. For now it's still time for me to have a bit of a pause, a bit of a think.

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Peter Hammill

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2 years

An update: I’m doing ok, back at home and recuperating but won’t be putting out any bulletins in the near future. Thanks for all the good wishes.

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Peter Hammill

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2 years

Sorry to say that the tour’s off as I had a hospital visit and surgery overnight. All well now but recovery time will b needed.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

7 months

We 3, still, plus Gordian. But we have no plans to do anything musically at the moment!

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Peter Hammill

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3 years

This has been our home for the last couple of days….

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

We three, still

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

We 3, still....

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

If the government doesn't formally close theatres, clubs, bars, restaurants they'll be consigning the entire UK arts/entertainment/catering/hospitality industries to the bin. Not for 12 weeks, but forever. And they'd been taking such good care of us all vis a vis Brexit...

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

A time comes to know when a time has come. Vale, King Crimson!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

They lied, they cheated, they scammed, they conspired. And here we are. There will never be forgiveness or excuse for what they’ve done.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

And this is our home for today

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

1 year

Ok, first show in Tokyo done. What a surprise, it was intense!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Time to announce that @CherryRedGroup have now taken over the Fie! PH catalogue and will be (re-)releasing stuff later in the year. This is undoubtedly a positive step and I’m sure they’re going to do a much better job with The Work than I’m now capable of doing. Onward!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Ready to go

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

I guess I should formally announce that my next release will be "In Translation", a collection of cover versions, most of which I've translated myself. It's a mixed bunch - Mahler to Leiber and Stoller, Piazzolla to Rodgers and Hammerstein. More news will follow.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

I'm very happy to announce that VdGG will be playing shows in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Bath and London in May 2020. Info at and more news later.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Don’t mess with the lead singer!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

Thanks for all the birthday messages today... and, er, hope I die before I get old!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

The view from the gtr mic

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

7 years

At 6pm I finished the last mix of my latest disc. Doubtless I'll go back to tweak some, if not all, of the songs. But basically I'm done.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

In another time, another space, HB, Brain and I would right now be backstage In Helsinki raising a glass to ourselves, our crew, the audience and everyone who’d made the VdGG 2020 tour happen. Well, here we are, apart.

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Peter Hammill

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3 years

Still before, but closer.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Here we go again then

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

Oh yes!

Isildurs Bane

@IBExpo

4 years

A new album by Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill has been recorded, mixed and is currently being mastered. In Disequilibrium will be out after the Summer. @Sofa_sound #IsildursBane #PeterHammill #InDisequilibrium @ProgMagazineUK #progressiverock #progrock #NewAlbum #IBExpo

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Peter Hammill

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1 year

And the third and final (lunchtime) Tokyo show is done. Yup, intense!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

We all know that the BBC is the Voice of the Establishment, has always been so. But this slavish devotion and obeisance to the voices of Brexit-at-all-costs is neither responsible journalism nor public service broadcasting. It’s shameful.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 months

At long last I'm going to be doing some (solo) shows in Italy later this year. Details are now up at

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Ahead of tonite

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Peter Hammill

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1 year

Second show done. Gtr tonite as well. Guess what? It was intense!

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Peter Hammill

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3 years

Before

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

A day for news. 1. "In translation", my album of cover versions, is released today.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

A year ago today we were two days into VdGG rehearsals, already getting somewhat apprehensive about the news coming in from Italy.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Now, I’m not trying to pick a fight but can anyone yet point to a SINGLE positive benefit to uk citizens as a result of Brexit?

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

As VdGG are about to head out on the next leg of our tour, I'll take the liberty of posting this relevant thread by Steve Albini. No, we won't be signing any autographs, we won't be posing for any photographs. We're doing our level best just to get through the tour in one piece.

regular steve albini

@electricalWSOP

3 years

Music fans pull up. Bands are trying to tour again. Decisions about when to tour are always made far in advance, and given the relentlessness of the pandemic, when the time comes to do it, the band has to decide by a deadline whether to go or not, with imperfect information.

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Peter Hammill

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4 years

Day upon day the uk government has revealed itself to be both incompetent and untrustworthy. With the refusal to countenance an extension of the withdrawal period I now believe they are genuinely mad. Idealogues with a death wish are in charge of us.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

9 months

This is in @TheCricketerMag Haven't read it yet, but I probably make as much of a fool of myself as I ever did in whites. An unusual and entertaining set of questions mind.

James Coyne

@coynejames

9 months

I interview Peter Hammill @sofa_sound of Van der Graaf Generator + prolific solo artist 🎸“With Dinky Toys, I thought that I was Stirling, with cricket bat, I saw myself as Peter May” 🎸Village cricket in Wiltshire 🎸Supporting @DerbyshireCCC 🎸sharing a birthday with Kohli!

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Peter Hammill

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3 years

Phew, Guy will be back with us today.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Well.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

A great picture of the end of the show.

Dr Peter Starie

@stariep

2 years

One year ago today @TheForumBath , brilliant gig and coming out on cd/dvd next Friday ⁦ @Sofa_sound ⁩ #VdGG

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

As of yesterday I’ve become the custodian of this fine beast. So many thanks to all those who contributed. I’m sure we’ll find a few tunes together. This one, though, is not going to be going in an aircraft hold!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Well. Wow. What a tour. Thanks to everyone who was involved and everyone who was present. Yeah, Elvis has left the building...for the moment.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Different vibe now, back in German clubs. Let’s rawk, -ish

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

Sorry, but it's inevitable. All the VdGG shows in April have been cancelled. We're working hard on rearranging them for September/October and tickets will remain valid for those dates. At the moment the May shows are still on. But these are parlous times.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

At times I’ve thought I was a young hothead when I wrote “the old school tie”. But here they all are -some noble exceptions-playing around in their safe home in politics about procedure, process, statute. F***ing with this country’s future for their own sense of power.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

1 year

As it happens I’ve been in Hiroshima today. And just…don’t even begin with this idiocy

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

We had lunch

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

Well, it’s time to say that VdGG will be doing shows (quite a few!) outside the UK in 2020. Details are now up at

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

A day off. A lovely dinner in Genova is done.

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Peter Hammill

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4 years

Boris Johnson has the gravitas of a deflating birthday balloon, of a rotting aubergine.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

There we go then, lovely show, great audience, many car crashes and some great extrications from them. Such a relief to be back to the trio again. Onward.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

1 year

I've just put up a post over at about a new/old release. I've completely remade "In a Foreign Town" and "Out of Water" and these new 2023 versions of the albums are going to be released as a double CD set by Cherry Red this Friday 24th November.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Hi @MaddyPriorFolk just thought I’d say 1. Glad to see you describe yourself as singist as I do myself and 2. Thanks for tapestry of carols which has accompanied present unwrapping in my family for more than 30 years. Now a tradition with grandkids as well as daughters.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Another before

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

Yes indeed!

ProgMagazineUK

@ProgMagazineUK

4 years

Peter Hammill ( @Sofa_sound ) announces In Translation, his first ever covers album, for later this year...

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Ok here we go. I’m in Helsinki having just done a vdgg show unlike any other. Yes, it’s Brexit related. Now that we’re on the outside the expiry date of our passports has become 10 years from the date of issue rather than the expiry on the document. If the date of issue is more

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

I may be being a complete idiot, but couldn’t we (uk) allow fleets of french busses to pick up anyone in the Calais region who wants to apply for asylum in the uk, transport them here and then have their applications processed? Look, no-one dies! No-one’s humanity is degraded!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

An empty room, before

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Secondly Tim Bowness has a new release out on Friday, "Butterfly Mind". I put in a bit of vox and unspeakable guitar. All good clean fun. Also to be found at

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

The relationship between an artist and a long-standing fan can be a complicated one. But over time one realises that, perhaps with different footfalls, a common path has been trod. Fellow travellers. RIP Willi Rupp.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

…and after

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

Well, as will have been obvious for quite some time, the VdGG shows in May have had to be postponed. They've almost all been rescheduled for later in the year though and details are now up at Best wishes to all, stay safe and see you there....

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Meanwhile a couple of contributions of mine from some time ago are now out. First the 40th Anniversary celebration release of Womad, where I played a couple of shows with @itspetergabriel It's available at

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

A word about our own precautions on this tour. In so far as we can we’re staying in a bubble with our crew, with no-one allowed backstage We’re also NOT signing any autographs or posing for any pictures, to avoid any crowding - and risk - around us. Hope you understand.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

I mean, the guy is a slug. We have a slug for a prime minister, his slime spread everywhere across the country.

Ned Boulting 🏳️‍⚧️

@nedboulting

3 years

I've been to hospitals too often over the course of the pandemic, and I can't remember seeing anyone who's not been wearing a mask; people with arduous, long, poorly paid shifts for whom it is a real ordeal to spend all day in a mask. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

At this time four weeks from today we should be just about wrapping up Soundcheck for the VdGG Birmingham Town Hall show.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Certainly are!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

I’m afraid I’ve had a rather dramatic visit to hospital and surgery overnight. All well now but it does mean the tour is off

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

The room is ready and so are we

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

Yes indeed! I’m sure they’re going to do a very good job with the catalogue. Much better, in fact, than I’d be capable of at this stage of life and career. Different, but exciting. Onward we go.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

7 years

So my five night stint in Japan has come to an end. 83 different songs played including all from the new disc. I *could* play 20+ others...

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

At this hour 4 weeks from today we will have finished the UK leg of 2022 VdGG touring after the show in Bath.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

But not by myself

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

Now that *is* a quote!

Quite Interesting

@qikipedia

6 years

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim. FRIDA KAHLO

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Peter Hammill

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2 years

A year ago yesterday we did the last show of the uk leg in Bath and tomorrow the dvd of that performance will be released on @CherryRedGroup

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

Giving Farage first slot on BBC evening news as well as an R4 interview today really is beyond the pale. Total abnegation of responsibility.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

Here we are, there we went...another IBExpo done, another performance of “In Amazonia” done. Another life-enhancing experience. Hooray and bravo everyone! Yes! Music! @IBExpo

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

7 years

The good meal, by myself @riddleandfinns1

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

5 years

Everyone should be aware - and beware - that the account @PeterHammill6 is not me but an impersonator who is using my profile pic and has started following people from my follower list.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Zepherine Drouhin, as mentioned in "Naming the Rose"

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

They lie and lie and lie, the likes of @alexwickham and @DavidGHFrost . Then the likes of @bbclaurak and the papers repeat the lies without question. I am SO ASHAMED of and for this country.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

Yay, but the big news is that a triple-vinyl release of this concert is coming out this week ;-) - and I'm pretty sure you're carrying it?

Burning Shed

@burningshednews

4 years

Van der Graaf Generator - Live At Rockpalast - Leverkusen 2005 (2CD/1DVD)

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

It's with great regret that I have to announce that the Italian VdGG shows which were rescheduled for September and October have had to be moved again, to some time later in 2021 - hang on to your tickets! So sorry not to manage La Bella Italia this year....

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

7 years

I suppose it would be 50 years ago today, more or less, that I first met both @JudgeSmithMusic and Gordian T....

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

This day last year was the last time I was onstage, in Halmstad with @IBExpo .

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

6 years

Farewell Tokyo. These three shows have been particularly intense. As ever, I’ve learned more about doing the same old thing, differently.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

1 year

For the first time in ages, I've put up a post at both and Some of you may be interested!

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

7 years

I'm happy to say that the next solo album, "From the Trees" will be released on November 3rd. Some info is up at

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

2 years

A long, long way before

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Peter Hammill

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6 years

Oh. SW. Respect.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

In a song about domestic abuse I once wrote “if this is all that there is isn’t there somewhere to run to?”. I now think this government is subjecting us to domestic abuse. And we have nowhere to run.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

4 years

Well, the VdGG shows in Paris, Amsterdam, Prague, Italy, Germany and Poland have now been recheduled (again) to 2022. Info at and let's hope this will be the last tiime they have to move.

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Peter Hammill

@Sofa_sound

3 years

Over at there's news of two releases coming up: a vinyl edition of "In Translation" and, gulp, a 20 disc VdGG Boxed set.

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