The Union Chapel Concert

The Union Chapel Concert Artist: Guy Evans & Peter Hammill
Label: Fie
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5023522911529
ASIN: B000024H3N


Release Date: 2002-02-14

The Union Chapel Concert


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Tracks:

  1. Fireworks
  2. A Forest Of Pronouns
  3. Anatol's Proposal
  4. After The Show
  5. Roger And Out
  6. Accidents
  7. Soundbeam Medley
  8. Women Of Ireland
  9. Ship Of Fools
  10. Hamburg Station
  11. Seven Wonders
  12. Barber's Adagio For Strings
  13. Red Shift
  14. Lemmings
  15. Traintime

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Album Description

1997 live album with a one song, one-off reformation of Van Der Graaf Generator on 'Lemmings'. Two hours long, it has two hidden bonus tracks, for a total of 17 cuts. Hammill & Evans are joined here by Hugh Banton, Manny Elias, Stuart Gordon, David Jackson, Giles Perrin, Patou Soult & Mat Fraser.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant! Thank you Evans & Hammill.......2002-05-25

Peter Hammill never did want to unite Van Der Graaf Generator, his celebrated prog-rock band of the 1970s. Yet, against all odds, he did just in this 1997 concert that is worthy of the title 'one-in-a-life-time' event. Is this a true representation of the VDGG sound? No, and this was not the intention of Hammill & Guy Evans when they conceived the concert. Indeed, they've tried to play only off-beat, rarely played songs, which makes this album a bit demanding - you want hear the usual Hammill concert favourites here. Instead, there's Ship of Fools (originally a B-side of a VDG single, no less), and many of Hammill's solo songs, spanning from the early "Red Shift" to the 1996 "A Forest Of Pronouns".

This should not serve as an introduction to Peter Hammill or to Van Der Graaf. Yet, as Robert Fripp puts out limited editions of somewhat obscure yet fascinating live performances of King Crimson for his fans, this is perhaps the VDGG equivalent.

For those of us who are familiar with all other VDGG albums (which is not saying much, as so little was recorded by this group), this album is definitely worth buying. Some of the songs are strange, true, but the experimental atmosphere is there, as is the complexity of instrumentation, and creativity of playing live, that were the trade marks of any Van Der Graaf live concert.

Inside you'll find informative notes, explaining the setting of this unique event, and suggesting the sound quality is inadequate... Although this may be true, the quality is much better than many other live albums of prog rock bands which were recorded back in the seventies.

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