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Interview with JUDGE SMITH

May 22, 2025

April 2025 People like this are called mavericks because they cut their own unorthodox path through crowded fields, only branding Judge Smith in such a way would be wrong, for the English auteur always played on his own field – … Continue reading →

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Judge Smith Becomes The Subject And Object Of Two Tomes

September 1, 2024

To call Judge Smith an enigma might mean both going for a common place and stretching the truth, because all of his life seemed to have unfolded before the public eye – or a discerning ear, anyway – yet not … Continue reading →

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Jay Tausig Deep-Dives Into VDGG and Daevid Allen’s Gems

March 11, 2024

Ambition and submission: these contradictory concepts underlie each and every tribute album that’s masterminded by a single artist or ensemble who choose to sculpt an entire record out of another performer’s pieces and creatively appropriate other people’s classics while being … Continue reading →

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VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – The Bath Forum Concert

May 2, 2023

Esoteric Antenna 2023 The enfants terribles of artsy frightfulness take their flock to nocturnal playground and treat them to a round of chilling grace. Apart from their , there’s not a lot of full-length live videos from VdGG’s halcyon days … Continue reading →

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VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR’s Debut: 50th Anniversary Celebrated With Box Set

February 18, 2019

Recently, there was an overabundance of Peter Hammill’s archive solo material released, with a new multi-disc collection in the pipeline, but the same can’t be said about VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, the band he masterminded and found fame with. The … Continue reading →

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