- Peter Hammill / lead vocals, guitars, pianos
- Hugh Banton / organ, keyboards, bass, accordion, glockenspiel
- Guy Evans / drums, percussion

In June 2013, Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans took to the road in Europe to present a series of live concerts that featured a set list that excited devotees of Van Der Graaf Generator like no other for many years. The band had decided the time was right to present their epic classic piece "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers” in its entirety on stage for the first time, along with Peter Hammill’s equally epic "Flight”. As the centrepieces of the band’s live set, a series of wonderful concerts took place, drawing on the classic material from the band’s past, as well as their more recent albums such as "A Grounding in Numbers”.


Fortunately, some of these shows were recorded for posterity and have now been gathered together to form "Merlin Atmos”. Arguably the finest live album in the history of the band, "Merlin Atmos” confirms Van Der Graaf Generator as a continuing musical force and explains the loyalty and respect they continue to receive from devotees the world over. "Merlin Atmos” is a stunning musical statement from a stunningly innovative band.


This strictly limited edition 2 CD digipack edition features a 70 minute CD of "Extras” recorded on the 2013 European tour including such classic tracks as ‘Scorched Earth’, ‘Man-Erg’, ‘Meurglys III, the Songwriter's Guild’ and ‘Your Time Starts Now’.

- Peter Hammill / vocals, guitar and keyboards
- Hugh Banton / organ, bass pedals and bass guitar
- Guy Evans / drums

In June 2013, Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans took to the road in Europe to present a series of live concerts that featured a set list that excited devotees of Van Der Graaf Generator like no other for many years. The band had decided the time was right to present their epic classic piece "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers” in its entirety on stage for the first time, along with Peter Hammill’s equally epic "Flight”.


Fortunately, some of these shows were recorded for posterity and have now been gathered together to form "Merlin Atmos”.


Arguably the finest live album in the history of the band, "Merlin Atmos” confirms Van Der Graaf Generator as a continuing musical force and explains the loyalty and respect they continue to receive from devotees the world over.


This strictly limited vinyl LP edition of "Merlin Atmos” has been mastered and cut at the legendary Abbey Road Studios and is a stunning musical statement from a stunningly innovative band.

- Peter Hammill / vocals, guitar and keyboards
- Hugh Banton / organ, bass pedals and bass guitar
- Guy Evans / drums

‘ALT’ is a new studio project by the legendary VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR and follows on from the release of "A GROUNDING IN NUMBERS” in 2011. "ALT” is no ordinary Van Der Graaf Generator album (if the term "ordinary” could ever be applied to this visionary group). PETER HAMMILL explains; "Instrumental Improvs & Experiments - Most of the music on "ALT” was made while we weren't really looking, or perhaps only while the left side of our collective brain was engaged. The album is a mixture of improvisations recorded at sound checks and in the studio and more considered sonic creations which often verge on Musique Concrete. The fourteen pieces here offer a fascinating glimpse into an alternative Van der Graaf Generator sound world. Perhaps the closest comparison would be with the second CD of "Present", but even the link with those recordings is tenuous. Even by Van der Graaf Generator standards, this stuff's at the wacky end of the scale!” This instrumental album is another side of Van Der Graaf Generator, a truly unique listening experience.

- Peter Hammill / guitar and keyboards
- Hugh Banton / organ, bass pedals and bass guitar
- Guy Evans / drums

The new Van Der Graaf Generator album, “A Grounding in Numbers”. The stunning new album is the band’s 12th studio record by the band and is their first since 2008. The album will be released as both a CD and a limited edition individually numbered vinyl LP edition (restricted to 2000 copies) and will be backed up by a short tour of the UK and some dates in Europe. In April 2010 Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton and Guy Evans met up for intensive tracking sessions in Cornwall, arranging, rehearsing and recording the album in a week. Some of the pieces were already fully-formed songs; others, even at this stage, remained more sketches than fully realised works. Over the next months the tracks were overdubbed, edited and adapted by the band in their own studios. By September the project was ready to be mixed. Legendary producer Hugh Padgham agreed to take on this part of the process - the first time anyone outside the band had been entrusted such responsibility. After three weeks in Hugh’s London studio, Sofasound (which shares its name with Peter’s original home set-up), “A Grounding in Numbers” was completed. With a fantastic clarity and depth of sound and a helter-skelter stretch of tunes, “A Grounding...” sees VdGG pushing ever further forward into the twenty first century. Clearly, they know they’re a group with a certain history - but they are also an emphatically modern one.

- Peter Hammill / guitar, keyboards and vocals
- Hugh Banton / organ, bass pedals and bass guitar
- Guy Evans / drums

Hugh Banton / organ
Guy Evans / drums
Peter Hammill / vocals, guitar, piano

1. The Hurlyburly (4:34)
2. Interference Patterns (3:49)
3. The Final Reel (5:47)
4. Lifetime (4:43)
5. Drop Dead (4:44)
6. Only in a Whisper (6:43)
7. All That Before (6:26)
8. Over the Hill (12:26)
9. (We Are) Not Here (4:04)

Guy Evans - Drums, Percussion
Peter Hammill - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Hugh Banton - Organ, Bass
David Jackson - Saxophone, Flute

1.The Undercover Man (7:32)
2.Scorched Earth (9:43)
3.Arrow (9:47)
4.The Sleepwalkers (10:41)
5.Forsaken Gardens (7:58)
6.A Louse Is Not A Home (12:47)

Bonus tracks
5. Forsaken Gardens (live) (12:23)
6. A Louse is Not a Home (live) (10:26)