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INSPIRING CONTENT
Thank you for the excellent feature on Peter Hammill [Prog 119]. I’ve been a big fan since I first heard Sleepwalkers. I had the good fortune to see Van der Graaf Generator a few years ago in Glasgow. They’re coming to Edinburgh next year so I hope the tour will not be cancelled.
It was nice to read about the 19-yearold Niamh Burnett [in Have A Cigar]. Such an inspiration. I’m sure more people her age would like prog rock if they just took time to listen. It’s a shame she took some stick from so-called ‘prog fans’. These people are narrow-minded fashion victims, so I wish her all the best.
There are a couple of bands I would like to see featured in Prog. One band are called Devil Doll, the other are Swans. Both are truly progressive.
I’m just glad to have a magazine like Prog so keep up the good work.
Campbell, Troon
PETER, PAST & PRESENT
As a novice journalist in the late 70s, I was fortunate to interview Peter Hammill for a long-gone Ottawa arts magazine, taped before a show in Montreal, where he was accompanied by violinist Graham Smith and bassist Nic Potter. As difficult and demanding as his music can be, you couldn’t possibly meet as warm and engaging a musician as Peter Hammill was then – and seemingly still is today.