“Our contemporaries had numbers that got people up on their feet cheering. We didn’t… We wondered if A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers was the way to go. I thought, ‘We can’t even play this!’”: Van der Graaf Generator’s struggle through the 70s

Van Der Graaf Generator in 1974.

As Van der Graaf Generator’s longest- serving keyboard player, Hugh Banton’s distinctive organ lines have underpinned the band’s best-known songs over three key periods of their career. In 2022, he recounted VdGG’s formative years and their reunion in the mid-00s – as explored in that year’s box set, Interference Patterns.

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