Sinéad was an extraordinary talent. She could move us with a candour and a passion with which so many people connected. The path she chose was always difficult and uncompromising but at every turn she would show her spirit and her courage. I feel lucky to have had the chance to…
We urge all Chileans to vote for hope and a future where human rights are placed front and centre in a new constitution.
Instamos a todos los chilenos da votar por la esperanza y por un futuro en el que los derechos humanos ocupen un lugar destacado en una nueva constitución.
“It was 37 years ago that ‘So' was the number 1 album and I never expected to be here again. I've just been told that we are number 1 in the UK with i/o, so it's amazing. I want to thank everyone that helped me make the album because it was a long, slow process, involving a lot…
Today, on the first full moon of 2023, Peter releases the first new song from his forthcoming album i/o. Written and produced by Peter, Panopticom was recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire and The Beehive in London.
Shocked and saddened to learn we no longer have Karl Wallinger with us.
I had admired his work from afar but it was when we did a Real World Recording Week together that I had the most creative and fun week I have ever had in the studio. Karl was overflowing with wonderful…
Along with the civilised world I was horrified by the racist murder of George Floyd.
This type of brutality needs to be confronted directly, with justice clearly seen to be done whenever & wherever it occurs. (1/3)
#BlackLivesMatter
#TheShowMustBePaused
#BlackOutTuesday
"I was shocked and very sorry to learn that Gustavo lost his sight as a result of the violence against the demonstrators in Santiago. It is outrageous and should never be allowed to happen. I hope those responsible face justice.” - pg
@amnesty
@AmnestyUK
21-year-old Gustavo was blinded by police during a protest in Santiago, Chile in 2019. Gustavo hopes that his blindness will help the world see what is happening in Chile; “I gave my eyes so people would wake up.”
Demand justice for Gustavo:
#W4R20
📢✍️
It’s been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road for a spin. Look forward to seeing you out there - pg
“Thank you for staying with me for all of these full moons …it’s been an experiment and I have enjoyed being able to connect and explain the songs one by one” - pg
“I felt it was a special song, the like of which I hadn’t heard before in the way it integrated the different influences and tried putting together this love lyric, which was, in part, based on this African idea of having an ambiguous love song that can be human love, man to…
Very shocked to see so many Ukrainians being killed, a totally unnecessary war being deliberately started in Europe. This invasion is one man’s barbaric decision.
This action is a war crime, and whatever else happens, he should never be allowed to leave Russian soil again.
- pg
Musically Panopticom drives along powered by the engine-room of long-time collaborators Tony Levin, David Rhodes and Manu Katché, underpinned by haunting electronics from Brian Eno. Additional backing vocals from Ríoghnach Connolly of The Breath.
'Don't Give Up' was the second single to be taken from Peter’s fifth solo album 'So’.
“The catalyst for ‘Don’t Give Up’ was a photograph I saw by Dorothea Lange, inscribed ‘In This Proud Land’, which showed the dust-bowl conditions during the Great Depression in America.…
This man was the embodiment of the power of love and laughter all wrapped up in one extraordinary human being.
What an honour to have been able to spend a little time with this person - what a teacher, what a heart, what a man. - pg
Today marks the official release of Peter's latest album, ‘i/o’.
Releasing a new song every full moon has allowed each track the time and space to enjoy its own orbit, “a little like getting a Lego piece each month".
All 12 tracks come with two stereo mixes: the Bright-Side…
“I’d had a dream of a melting face, some kind of wax effigy caught possibly in a museum fire. To achieve the painterly dripping effect we used ordinary Polaroids (after Les Krims) and if one pushes around the developing picture sandwiched between two bits of plastic with a blunt…
To our friends in Chile -
@WomadChile
We are shocked by the brutality of the treatment being given out to protesters and are hoping for a fast and non-violent resolution. You have our support and are in our thoughts.
- Peter Gabriel & the WOMAD team
@danieljadue
To our friends in Chile -
@WomadChile
We are shocked by the brutality of the treatment being given out to protesters and are hoping for a fast and non-violent resolution. You have our support and are in our thoughts.
Peter Gabriel & the WOMAD team
@itspetergabriel
@danieljadue
Peter is embarking on a tour later this year. Tickets for the UK and Europe dates are on sale now, with US dates to be announced soon.
Photography by Nadav Kander.
Charlie was an elegant, generous and modest musician and brilliantly provided the living, rhythmic foundation on which so much of this soundtrack to our lives was built - pg
It’s been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road for a spin. Look forward to seeing you out there - pg
Today marks 21 years of Peter's release 'UP'. The album revealed itself to be another deeply personal statement, with birth and death being near-constant themes. ‘A book-ends record’ Peter called it at the time. There are contributions from the likes of Peter Green, Danny…
Seeing Oli Jacobs, who was Head Engineer here at
@RealWorldStudio
, win a Grammy for Harry's House, feels like a good excuse to revisit this moment of
@Harry_Styles
talking about recording his second album
The release of Panopticom on the full moon is no coincidence and in true PG fashion the approach for i/o will be a little different from the norm. The lunar phases will guide the release plan in 2023, with a new song revealed each full moon.
The wait is almost over! Peter's highly anticipated album, ‘i/o’, comes out this Friday December 1st.
"After a years-worth of full moon releases, I'm very happy to see all these new songs back together on the good ship i/o and ready for their journey out into the world."- PG…
"After a years-worth of full moon releases, I’m very happy to see all these new songs back together on the good ship i/o and ready for their journey out into the world." – PG
i/o is a 12-track album with two stereo, Bright-Side and Dark-Side, mixes and a 3D immersive In-Side…
Today, we celebrate 13 years since the release of the album 'Scratch My Back', which features twelve songs by various artists covered by Peter accompanied by an orchestra. Peter worked on the arrangement with John Metcalf, whose string arrangement also features on The Court.
"There's also a description that Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from jail after 27 years in prison and found himself about to become president of South Africa, standing next to some of the people who had been responsible for keeping him in jail all that time. He said he…
‘I had spent a long time thinking about how you bridge the border between performer and audience. I used to open shows walking through the audience with lights or drums, or I’d sing numbers from the furthest seat from the stage, all sorts of things, and I thought actually maybe…
Serj Tankian of System Of A Down has drafted an open letter that, along with Amnesty International and the UN's International Court of Justice, calls upon the government of Azerbaijan to open the Lachin corridor to all movement and cease from the oppression of the people of…
Today, on the second full moon of 2023, Peter releases the Dark-Side Mix of The Court, the next song to be revealed from the album i/o.
Written and produced by Peter, The Court was recorded at
@RealWorldStudio
in Wiltshire and in London at The Beehive and British Grove.
Peter’s take on the Magnetic Fields’ song ‘The Book of Love’ from ‘Scratch My Back’ album. It's deeply romantic but a little cynical at the same time, reflecting on how love is many simple things; "The book of love is long and boring. No one can lift the damn thing.”
The fighting that has broken out between Azerbaijan & Armenia is really horrific & we need to lobby whoever we can to encourage a ceasefire. Pls encourage your politicians, Brussels, NATO, UN to get involved before a lot more lives are lost. Thanks -pg.
‘I was delighted when Sheryl Crow told me she was going to do her own version of Digging In The Dirt. It sounds great - and was a real pleasure to sing along to. I think Sheryl and Mike Elizondo have done a brilliant job putting all this together. It deserves to grow wings.’ - PG…
Lovely to see such positive reviews from Peter's i/o: the tour so far.
"Musically enthralling and visually spectacular… some of the most powerful music of his long career, ready to push an audience as far as it will go and ultimately reward them with something they won’t forget…
On this day in 1977, Peter released his first solo album... “This record was my first step as a solo artist, the first step away from being a part of a band. I was uncertain of what I could or couldn’t do so went with some of Bob Ezrin’s choice of musicians (including Tony Levin)…
Today's rare blue supermoon heralds the release of the ninth track from i/o, 'Love Can Heal'. Accompanying the release is
@aardman
's beautifully created video inspired by Antony Micallef's artwork for the track. 'They did a beautiful job, simple but very strong and I'm very…
‘San Jacinto' taken from the Secret World Live concert film, which captures Peter's extraordinary 1993 live show, at the Palasport Nuovo in Modena, Italy.
"I think there’s this sense very often that people seem to retain their 17 year old selves throughout life in some way, they may peg it at a different age but I don’t think people feel old internally or very rarely.” -pg
Us’ is 31 today. On its release, it was, arguably, Peter’s most personal record to date. The album continued his well-established motif of mixing high technology with decidedly analogue contributions from musicians from West Africa, Egypt and Armenia. Reunited with Daniel…
12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter’s ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful –…
Today on the full moon, Peter releases the eighth track from the album i/o. This month the song is Olive Tree and the first version to be heard is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent.
This month’s full moon release comes with artwork from the artist Barthélémy Toguo and…
Peter performed 'Biko' at Amnesty International's Secret Policeman’s Third Ball in London in this week of March 1987. The show took place at the London Palladium.
"Seeing the 'Sledgehammer' stop-motion video by Peter Gabriel was a pivotal moment in my life, igniting a love for animation that led me to study Animation/Illustration at University over 20 years ago, essentially setting me on the track to where I am now." -
@Oranguerillatan
…
"When someone suggested that forgiveness might be a topic to write about, at first, I thought, ‘that's not interesting to me,’ but then I remembered two things. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was the chair of The Elders and a real mentor for me, led the Truth and Reconciliation…
SQUARING THE CIRCLE (the story of Hipgnosis), the new film from visionary director Anton Corbijn, tells the story behind the most iconic album covers of all time and the two genius artists who represented the golden age of the music business.
Opens June 7 in the US.
Tickets:…
“Digging In The Dirt was looking at the darker side of myself. I was also reading a book about murder and anger expressed in different ways. That was allowing me to get into different subject-matter.”- pg
Peter has been opening most of the i/o shows with a version of Washing of the Water from the album Us. Here he is performing the song during the Secret World Live tour in 1993.
‘I haven’t used trumpet much in my musical career … strangely enough in lockdown, I was sent a video of someone who had done a version of the song ‘What Lies Ahead’ … this trumpeter Paolo Fresu who is Sardinian … I was blown away it was so soulful and poetic in a way, so I…
i/o is a 12-track album with two stereo, Bright-Side and Dark-Side, mixes and a 3D immersive In-Side Mix. Available on 2CD, 2CD+Blu-ray and double vinyl LPs, avaliable now.
Order your copy today:
A few amazing shots from Paris last night by
@yorktillyer
‘i/o finds him ruminating on the simple pleasures of walking a dog and connecting with nature; Four Kinds of Horses is a surprisingly gentle vision of environmental apocalypse.’ - haunted new songs have fans punching the…
“I think that ‘So’ was certainly the most visible and successful record that I’ve ever done and it was a special band too. I’ve enjoyed very much playing with them on the tour. Manu particularly is quite unique in the way he plays. I’m glad I did it. I’ve enjoyed it more than I…
"I was thrilled with the opportunity to create visuals for ‘Panopticom’ and at the possibility of creating a music video for Peter Gabriel. I created this video in 1 week with the use of Stable Diffusion Deforum via the open-source WebUI, Automatic1111, after months of deep-dive…
"Youssou N’Dour asked me to try and focus on women’s emancipation... to support women to take control of their own destiny, to shake up the male establishment." - pg
Looking to the New Year with love... "it sounds trite just to say ‘love can heal’, but I really believe that it is a key element and that when people feel interaction, warmth, giving, part of something alive and not isolated, that they’re much more likely to do well and be able…
Really sad to say goodbye to Alan Parker. There’s a lot of wonderful work he has left us. He also had a serious impact on my own life as he was the first film director to think I might be able to create a film score - pg
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“I was introduced through a friend to the Magnetic Fields, and really fell in love with the song writing ... This wonderful lyric is deeply romantic and a little cynical at the same time… I thought it would be great to hear this performed on strings and just managed to get it…
Peter Gabriel performing 'Biko' at the very first WOMAD Festival in 1982. As witnessed during the i/o tour the song remains a powerful highlight of the live set.
i/o is 12 tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful – often thought-provoking – songs tackle life and the universe. Our connection to the world around us – ‘I’m just a part of everything’ is a recurring motif.
Pre-order i/o…
“My parents, once I was born, never moved from that house, and that is a rare thing these days. The house has now been sold, but it was full of memories, so I was trying to capture some of that”. - PG