The Van de Graaff generator is a staple of science museums, to the point that even if the average person might not know its name, there’s an excellent chance they’ll be familiar with the “metal ball ...

This Van de Graaf generator was built using mostly parts on hand. The only thing that was purchased for the project was the Christmas ornament shaped M&M candy tin that serves as the collecting sphere ...

At the end of 1976, after three albums over the remarkable two years since their reunion, Van der Graaf Generator were making some of the best music of their career. However, they were increasingly ...

You can't have a serious conversation about the infancy of progressive rock without citing Van der Graff Generator (VdGG) as one of the genre's driving forces amid its influence back in the '70s and ...

A brand new film highlighting Van der Graaf Generator's only live show in the US from the 1970s, is to air this evening (UK time) on YouTube. Van der Graaf Generator - NYC '76 has been created by band ...

Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts Ostensibly a tale about the wrath of the sea, it plunges deep into the murky realms of insanity and transcendence, spanning the spectrum of human emotion: the ...

Van Der Graaf Generator may have been early figureheads of the progressive scene, but their love of noise and chaos marks them out as one of the UK’s greatest avant rock bands. Joe Banks dives deep ...

Order the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home! When punk hit, only a few ‘progressive’ bands were deemed acceptable; King Crimson, perhaps, but most definitely Van Der Graaf ...

When, in 2005, Van Der Graaf Generator released its first album in over 25 years, the reunited group proved it was not only possible to go back, but that it could be done without sacrificing ...

So said a drawn-looking, jumpy Peter Hammill on 17 June 1978. He’s on Austrian TV, sitting on an unmade bed in a hotel room, with a cigarette in his hand – a packet of Camels sits on the adjacent ...