After the shows supporting the UP album, Peter was involved in little projects and some individual songs ...
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Recording date: 2005 Recording location: Real World Studios/Box Produced by: Peter Gabriel Performed by: Peter Gabriel (vocals/piano) feat. Tony Levin, Ged Lynch (drums) First official release: 10th February 2006 - XX Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony in Torino (TV broadcasts) Best available source: same |
Peter Gabriel surprised his fans in the summer of 2007 with a compilation of songs and rarities on a free CD as part of the newspaper Mail On Sunday. Also, quite spontaneously, he went on an open air tour with a very intersting selection of songs. The setlist from the Warm Up Tour was the result of a poll on his own website. As a result, he played tracks he had not played live for a very long time. For fans, it was also great to know that all shows were once again released as official bootlegs by TheMusic.com. All performed tracks are available on CD. The band had also rehearsed (but not played) the following tracks: Waiting For The Big One, And Through The Wire, This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds), Love To Be Loved, Make Tomorrow Today and The Drop...
Work on the soundtrack for the (in parts) animated movie Sea Monsters started before the tour. It was a project of Richard Evand and David Rhodes (alias The Footnote) and it was finished after the tour and Peter Gabriel was also involved ...
In the summer of 2008, the stuff from the "Realworld Recording Weeks" finally were released on CD on an album called Big Blue Ball. The three recording events took place as early as 1991, 1992 and 1995. Even though Peter Gabriel was more or less involved in seven tracks, the result is not a Peter Gabriel album ...
Two special versions and remixes are available from that album ...
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Big Blue Ball (Instrumental) Best available source: same |
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Exit Through You [sample pack] Best available source: same |
Also in the summer of 2008, the soundtrack for the animated movie Wall-E was released. Peter contributed the main track for the movie and the theme of that song is also used in two score tracks ...
At the same time, Peter recorded a track with Hot Chip, a cover version of Vampire Weekend's Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa auf, which appeared in early 2009 on the internet ...
Quite unexpectedly, Peter decided to do a short seven-date Latin American tour in March 2009 - just before he started to work on his next studio album project. The tour was once again released on individual 2CDs for each show via TheMusic.com...
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Solsbury Hill [live 2009 rough mix] On The Air [live 2009 rough mix] Intruder [live 2009 rough mix] Games Without Frontiers [live 2009 rough mix] No Self Control [live 2009 rough mix] Biko [live 2009 rough mix] The Rhythm Of The Heat [live 2009 rough mix] San Jacinto [live 2009 rough mix] Wallflower [live 2009 rough mix] Red Rain [live 2009 rough mix] Sledgehammer [live 2009 rough mix] Big Time [live 2009 rough mix] In Your Eyes [live 2009 rough mix] Come Talk To Me [live 2009 rough mix] Blood Of Eden [live 2009 rough mix] Steam [live 2009 rough mix] Secret World [live 2009 rough mix] Father, Son [live 2009 rough mix] (Peter Gabriel)The Tower That Ate People [live 2009 rough mix] Darkness [live 2009 rough mix] Signal To Noise [live 2009 rough mix] Burn You Up, Burn You Down [live 2009 rough mix] Down To Earth [live 2009 rough mix] Recording date: 18th - 31st March 2009 Recording location: various Performed by: Peter Gabriel First official release: 2009 - Peter Gabriel 2009 Tour (7 x US 2CD/TheMusic.com) Best available source: same |
After the tour, Peter started his "orchestral phase", which produced two studio albums - Scratch My Back and New Blood - and also live releases...
Author: Steffen Gerlach
Double-CD with both, Scratch My Back and ... And I'll Scratch Yours in digipak format