The news is reported in Italy by “Russia Beyond the Headlines” and “Non solo Russia“.

In 2012, VDGG’s new album ALT is released. The opening track is “Earlybird”.
The idea of the project that will carry the name of the track comes to Shabalin in 2013. Contacted by the artist, Hammill, Grant and Banton give their approval and adhere to the project. VDGG’s official photographer Paul Ridout sends and allows usage of the photos taken during the recording of ALT.

On the occasion of Peter Hammill’s concert in Trieste, Vladislav Shabalin gives him a reproduction made of stone with 50-million-year-old fish fossils, of the cover of VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR’s album “A Grounding in Numbers”, released in 2011.