RELEASED 7.10.2011
While continuing to play his part in the ongoing career of Van Der Graaf Generator - indeed, perhaps because the louder side of his nature is very much fulfilled in that environment - Peter has found himself increasingly drawn towards genuine solo performance when under his own name. Over a series of tours he has reconnected with songs old and new in the ultimate stripped-down format of piano/voice and guitar/voice. This double CD, taken from concerts in Japan and the UK in 2010, is Peter's first solo live recording since 1999's "Typical" and shows him at the peak of his powers, pushing and stretching both himself and the material into and out of shape. CD1 is full of ‘piano songs’ and CD2 contains the other guitar ones, following a matrix first laid down in the Tokyo shows. The songs are taken from the length and breadth of Peter's career and this 2CD, documenting his solo performance style, is an important addition to his body of recorded work.
Tracklisting: CD1 1. Easy To Slip Away 2. Time Heals 3. Don’t Tell Me 4. Shell 5. Faculty X 6. Nothing Comes 7. Gone Ahead 8. Friday Afternoon 9. Traintime 10. Undone 11. The Mercy 12. Stranger Still 13. Vision
CD2 1. Comfortable 2. I Will Find You 3. Driven 4. The Comet, The Course, The Tail 5. Shingle Song 6. Amnesiac 7. What’s It Worth? 8. Ship Of Fools 9. Slender Threads 10. Happy Hour 11. Stumbled 12. Central Hotel 13. Modern 14. Ophelia