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Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: April 13 2002, 13:14 Just found some very interesting Peter Gabriel news, and as I know that he is very popular with many of you, I thought that I would post it here... Peter's album Long Walk Home, the soundtrack to the film Rabbit-Proof Fence, which has been released in Australia already, is released in the UK on May 27th... Up, Peter's long-awaited true follow up to Us, has at long last been honoured with a release date...September 9 is the date to rush into the record store to buy the only copy that they'll have in!... The full bunch of remastered back catalogue albums will receive a European release date of May 5th... There are also plans for a B-side/Outtakes double album in 2002... And Peter is also rerecording parts of Ovo with the intention of re-releasing the album next year, with more of the male vocal parts sung by Peter...and additional completely new material... Oliver -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: May 28 2002, 19:30 petergabriel.com is now hosting video clip previews of tracks from Up - sounds incredible and his whole back catalogue is available as digipaks, standard jewel case CDs...or mini-vinyls! yay - they're so cute :P so go out and buy them! if you don't know who Peter Gabriel is, then buy Passion by him - its not too dissimilar from Mike's older works, its an instrumental work of great beauty and depth, probably the best Mike never wrote... Oliver -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

GMOVJ Group: Members Posts: 273 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: May 29 2002, 04:08 Oliver, you've got some perfect taste ! I surf to PG website right now Cheers GMOVJ -------------- Cheers, GMOVJ [URL=http://tubular.fodplanet.com]http://tubular.fodplanet.com[/URL] - The french speaking mailing list Back to top

TimHighfield Group: Members Posts: 543 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: July 25 2002, 04:45 Can't wait 'til September- new PG and (hopefully) Mark Knofler albums   Hope they both tour (not necessarilly together   ) and come to Australia. Back to top

theweightless Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Sep. 20 2002, 11:47 this dude (Peter Gabriel) makes interesting music   never listened his music before..now i've heard this Up album..very good stuff there -------------- ASMK Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: Sep. 20 2002, 14:33 Just to let people know, 'UP' is being released on September 23rd (24th in the USA). The album is very dark, much closer in spirit to PG3 and PG4 (Melt and Security) than So or Us. There is great orchestral work in Signal To Noise, which also features stunning vocals by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In My Head Sounds Like That there is a very beautiful Beatles-esque melody, and Darkness is the noisiest thing he's ever done! The tracklist is: 01. DARKNESS 02. GROWING UP 03. SKY BLUE 04. NO WAY OUT 05. I GRIEVE 06. THE BARRY WILLIAMS SHOW 07. MY HEAD SOUNDS LIKE THAT 08. MORE THAN THIS 09. SIGNAL TO NOISE 10. THE DROP The best album of the year for me - go to www.rollingstone.com, search for Peter Gabriel and read the fan reviews. Apart from Passion, it's without doubt his best album -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

theweightless Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Sep. 25 2002, 15:09 got to say..damn good album -------------- ASMK Back to top

Horse Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: Aug. 2002 Posted: Sep. 28 2002, 10:19 WHAT A GREAT ALBUM!!!! I've heard nothing but since it was released. Quite funny to hear the references to the old Genesis. This is GREAT! Back to top

Jerome C Group: Members Posts: 138 Joined: Mar. 2002 Posted: Oct. 09 2002, 07:46 Yep, a damn good album, beauty is the best adjective I can find now to qualify it. But there are many others that could apply also  Jerome -------------- Jerome C (long time out of here, but always having MO in mind somewhere) Back to top

Paul S Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Oct. 09 2002, 07:48 Yep, same here. It hasn't left the CD player yet....   Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Oct. 29 2002, 22:42 Up rocks! I'm completely blown away by it. The percussion...have been listening to it in the car (how hard can you bang on your steering wheel without detonating the airbag?).       Thus motivated to investigate PG websites, I find where he's going to be performing at the same time I'm in Chicago for a convention next month. Hope there are tickets still available by the time I figure out plans......... Anyone going? -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Thea Cochrane Group: Musicians Posts: 445 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Oct. 30 2002, 11:25 While there is no denying that UP is a great album, I had to buy Long Walk Home after seeing the movie Rabbit Proof Fence. That is really something special. It is great to hear musical references to bits of OVO and UP on there in a new musical context. The track "Gracie's Recapture" makes all the hairs on my back stand on end (not that I have an especially hairy back or anything...). If you like world music stuff then you could do a lot worse than to have a listen/look at the One Giant Leap CD/DVD project. Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Nov. 13 2002, 02:15 Went to the Peter Gabriel concert tonight in Chicago! Before my forehead hits the keyboard, thought I'd do a couple of posts about it (well, only one here, so not to worry).  In one word: fantastic! In several words: excellent, fun, imaginative, nostalgic, innovative! Peter was in wonderful voice and form! Everyone (on stage) was in layers of black and gray. The stage at United Center is circular, and there was a moving sidewalk running around it. The special effects were interesting, and the sound was awesome! The Blind Boys from Alabama opened, and when PG hit the stage, Story of Ovo was playing in the background. He opened with Father-Son, mentioning the week that he had spent with his 90-year old father. At that point, it was just Tony Levin on the Chapman Stick and Peter up there on keyboards. The second selection was Darkness, followed by (I think in this order): Red Rain, Secret World, My Head Sounds Like That, Sky Blue, Downside Up, Barry White Show, More Than This, Talk to Me, Mercy Street (moving rowboat included), Digging in the Dirt, Animal Nation, Solsbury Hill (performed while riding a bicycle around the stage), Sledgehammer (star suit), Growing Up,  Signal to Noise. Encores: In Youlr Eyes; Here Comes the Flood (just him on keyboard). No one around me had heard any of the songs from Up, and it seems to me that they'd all have enjoyed the show more with some previous exposure. I sure did!   -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: Nov. 13 2002, 15:12 I'M SO JEALOUS!!! I can't wait till Peter comes to the UK and tours. I've never seen him live and from the live performances I've seen on TV and the internet, he still sounds as good as ever I heard that he was rolling around on stage in a hamster cage type ball. Apparently, he squashed one of his female backing singers on-stage in the third night in Mexico (November 5)!!! -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: Nov. 13 2002, 15:14 and in case anyone didn't believe me about the hamster ball... -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Nov. 14 2002, 00:39 Great pic! And yes....he was "Growing Up" in the "hamster ball!"  The thing resembles a giant transparent (sort of) yellowish (the lights?) beach ball, and he rolled around the outside of the stage in it, for the entire piece. Actually, IIR, at one point he sort of rolled through the stage.  Missed the drums.  I kept thinking he was going to roll off into the audience! In that during his 1983 tour he was passed around hand over hand, I wondered if this time folks would be playing human volleyball!       And yes--his voice is still wonderfully rich in depth and emotion and range! -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Nov. 14 2002, 13:32 Oh--I forgot to add that it's not only a rolling through drum sets/rolling over singers-type ball, but he makes it bounce!  He did talk about hamsters a bit afterwards, btw! -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Nov. 16 2002, 11:41 Here's a great review of the 11/13 concert from the Chicago Sun-Times: http://www.suntimes.com/output/derogatis/cst-ftr-gab14.html   The review in the Chicago Tribune was mixed (you have to register with the Trib to read--www.chicagotribune.com) and to my biased thinking wasn't quite as credible.  If anyone wants to read the Trib review and can't get to it, email me, and I'll send you a copy. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

oldfield_fan Group: Members Posts: 198 Joined: May 2001 Posted: Feb. 14 2003, 08:09 Is anyone here going to see him during the tour in Europe? Any Swedes? You can buy your tickets now... He comes to Stockholm (globen) 24th April / Johan Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: Feb. 20 2003, 17:21 I may go and see him play at Wembley Arena, he has two dates there, but the tickets are £35 which seems a tad steep, especially considering Mike was only about £23 (if I remember correctly). Even though I love Peter's music to bits, and would love to see him running around upside down, riding a bicycle, and nearly falling off stage and squashing band members in a giant ball, I'm only a student and may have to give it a miss. I'll never understand why the richer the musician, the more the concert ticket. They need the music less, after all... Ollie -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

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