There is an extra video update on Peter Gabriel’s official website. In it, Gabriel also talks about the tour rehearsals against a backdrop of stills and video recordings. The background music comes from live recordings in Hamburg and Cornwall that will soon be available in the Encore series. You need to register (for free) as a member of the Full Moon Club to be able to watch the >video<.

Rehearsals for the Warm Up Tour have now reached the stage of doing a full set-list. According to Richard Chappell, a complete set has been rehearsed a few times and they have also extended the set-list because they “need a longer set”. More rehearsed tracks were revealed, among them are We Do What We’re Told, This Is The Picture and Waiting For The Big One. Further information states that I Grieve, Blood Of Eden, Lay Your Hands On Me and DIY are more or less in the final set, more info on that to follow!
Also, there will be a 14 track Greatest Hits CD included in next week’s Mail On Sunday (UK newspaper). It has a unique cover artwork, check out the full article about Peter in this week’s issue here.

After the most recent entries in the Tour Diary there are only nine songs left from the rehearsal setlist that remain unknown. These songs are to be rehearsed:

from PG1: Moribund The Burgermeister, Humdrum, Waiting For The Big One
from PG2: On The Air, D.I.Y., Mother Of Violence, Indigo
from PG3: Intruder, No Self Control, I Don’t Remember, Family Snapshot, And Through The Wire, Not One Of Us
from PG4: Rhythm Of The Heat, Lay Your Hands On Me
from SO: Big Time, We Do What We’re Told, This Is The Picture
from US: Blood Of Eden, Steam, Washing Of The Water, Lovetown (Non Album Track)
from OVO: Make Tomorrow
from UP: I Grieve, The Drop, Signal To Noise

The Diary also announces new and brand new songs. The choice of songs for the final set list will probably depend on Peter Gabriel, who will join the rehearsals on May 30. It has also become clear that, except for the keyboarder, Peter will be surrounded by the same musicians as on the 2003/04 tour.

More details are being revealed at the Peter Gabriel Tour Diary. Chris Lawson, an old hand, joins the team as a technician to support the crew. Also on board: Melanie Gabriel. This time round she will not only sing but also play assorted samples.
According to the most recent information Moribund The Burgermeister and Indigo were rehearsed, too. No Self-Control may be performed on tour with Gabriel solo accompanying himself on the piano…

This time Peter seems to be serious about his plan to play a lot of stuff he hasn’t played for quite some years. The poll is still running but now there is some interesing informatin in the new tour diary section on Peter’s official website. Richard Chappell and Peter have been working on a couple of tracks, among those tracks are
Rhythm Of The Heat, No Self Control, Humdrum, I Grieve, Lovetown, Intruder, Blood Of Eden and Signal To Noise.
There’s also a sheet in the Diary Website header which lists the tracks On The Air, Not One Of Us and Mother Of Violence
More Info will follow…
>> Peter Gabriel Tour Diary (official Gabriel Site)
>> Peter Gabriel Song Poll for upcoming Tour (we will forward the results)

Peter Gabriel wants to try new things on his forthcoming summer tour. According to the man himself, he’s a bit tired of playng the same stuff again and wants YOUR input. Now, that rings a bell…didn’t he create a Poll in 2002 to check what people would like to hear? Yes he did. And magine that, he ignored it - apart from popular choices such as In Your Eyes or Secret World.
In case you want to try - you can either vote here on our site (we will forward the results) or go to Peter’s site.
…don’t give up!
Click here to vote on our site (message board multiple choice poll)