Released March 1997 Label Fie! Records | Recorded 3 November 1996 Release date March 1997 | |
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The Union Chapel Concert is a live album by Guy Evans and Peter Hammill, recorded in the Union Chapel in London, 3 November 1996, and released as a double CD in March 1997. The album is noteworthy because it is the first time the four ex-members of Van der Graaf Generator, Hammill, Evans, Hugh Banton and David Jackson, played together in front of a paying audience since the band had broken up in 1978. The subtitle on the front of the album reads: "featuring a one song, one-off reformation of Van der Graaf Generator." David Jackson and Hugh Banton were unannounced guests and played a Soundbeam-medley and a Samuel Barber Adagio for strings on the church organ respectively. All songs that evening were played in varying line-ups. Only "Lemmings" was played by Hammill, Evans, Banton and Jackson.
Contents
Track listing
- "Fireworks"
- "A Forest of Pronouns"
- "Anatol's Proposal"
- "After the Show"
- "Roger and Out"
- "Accidents"
- "Soundbeam Medley" (listed as "Four Kinds of Rice / Hello / Resolution" in the CD booklet but as "Soundbeam medley" on the back)
- "Women of Ireland"
- "Ship of Fools"
- "Hamburg Station"
- "Seven Wonders"
- "Barber's Adagio for Strings"
- "Red Shift"
- "Lemmings"
- "Traintime"
Personnel
Blue drums are the invention of Echo City and Guy and Giles are members of the group.
Songs
1Introduction0:40
2Fireworks3:50
3A Forest of Pronouns7:53