Guy Evans


Guy Randolph Evans is an English drummer. He is best known as a member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator, appearing on each of their studio albums. He is also a member of Echo City and Subterraneans.

Career

Whilst at the University of Warwick, Evans played in the university band The New Economic Model. The band, which mainly played American soul music of the 1960s, played at university dances and supported bands such as Pink Floyd and The Move. There is a picture of Evans with the rest of the New Economic Model in "Van der Graaf Generator – The Book".
Evans has been a member of Van der Graaf Generator from 1968 until 1978, and since their reformation in 2005.
In addition to his work in Van der Graaf Generator, Evans has collaborated with other musicians, frequently with other members of Van der Graaf Generator, as on The Long Hello project and in the K Group. He also works with Echo City, building outdoor constructions which can be used to make music, called "sonic playgrounds". Evans also worked for a number of years at Shape Arts in an administrative role and as a workshop leader.
He has been the drummer in Subterraneans since 2002.

Discography

Band member

With Van der Graaf Generator:
With The Misunderstood:
With Echo City:
  • Gramophone
  • The Sound of Music
  • Sonic Sport 1983–88 Part One
  • Loss of the Church 1997
  • Echo City
  • Single2000
  • Union as Echo City with Tchad Blake
With Subterraneans:
  • Orly Flight
  • Themes for Maya Deren
  • Soul Mass Transit
  • Live in Berlin
  • Eights and Rhymes
  • This Too Shall Pass
  • ''Goodbye Voyager''

    Solo

With Nic Potter:
  • The Long Hello
  • Dolphins / Welcombe Mouth
  • The Long Hello Volume Two
With David Jackson and Life of Riley:
  • The Long Hello Volume Four
With David Jackson and Hugh Banton:
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blues
With Peter Hammill:
With Big Buddha:
  • Buddhology – Revelations from Under the Encounter
  • ''The Dogford Chronicles''

    Collaborations

With Peter Hammill:
  • Fool's Mate
  • Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night
  • The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
  • In Camera
  • Nadir's Big Chance
  • Over
  • Sitting Targets
  • Enter K
  • Paradox Drive / Now More Than Ever
  • Patience
  • Film Noir / Seven Wonders
  • The Margin
  • Skin
With Charlie and The Wide Boys:
  • Gilly I Do
  • Great Country Rockers
With Footsbarn Present's:
With Didier Malherbe and Yan Emerich:
  • Melodic Destiny
With Mother Gong:
With Amon Düül UK:
  • Meetings With Menmachines Inglorious Heroes of the Past...
  • Die Lösung
  • Fool Moon
With Nigel Mazlyn Jones:
  • Breaking Cover
  • Water From The Well
  • Angels Over Water
  • Behind the Stone
With Peter Blegvad:
  • Knights Like This
  • U Ugly I
  • Special Delivery
With Frank Tovey:
  • Snakes And Ladders
With Kazue Sawai:
  • Eye To Eye
With Anthony Phillips and Harry Williamson:
  • ''Tarka''