PETER GABRIEL - I/O: The Tour 2023 (general info)

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A new trailer for the North American dates has appeared

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Quite a nice trailer. Hope the shows will be a success

Just read a few comments here in other languages. Can't we agree on posting in English only? I understand there a quite a few international user here, but we have tools like Google translate or Deepl etc. That should do it, I think.

Any rumours about more European dates next spring/summer?

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Any rumours about more European dates next spring/summer?

Or, as has been mentioned a few times before, territories he hasn't already visited with the I/O show such as S America, the Far East and Australia/NZ.

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Or, as has been mentioned a few times before, territories he hasn't already visited with the I/O show such as S America, the Far East and Australia/NZ.

Thanks BD for ploughing this lonely furrow. I've given up on it.

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Thanks BD for ploughing this lonely furrow. I've given up on it.

I'd obviously like him to do more dates here but it does often seem fellow board members forget there are other places he could play. I suppose most members are European so that's the default thinking and I'm sure they don't mean anything dismissive by it. I understand your tiring of pointing it out to the point of giving up but I'm not going let it go!

He will be on tour in Europe next spring for sure…

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He will be on tour in Europe next spring for sure…

Where does that "for sure" come from?

Manu Katché and Tony Levin have suggested - in different itw - that they should remain available in spring 2024. Wait and see...

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Manu Katché and Tony Levin have suggested - in different itw - that they should remain available in spring 2024. Wait and see...

That doesn't = 'Europe in the spring for sure'

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That's not = Tour for sure

I presume they will wait on how the american dates will work. So no announcements for next year before they are halfway through - so not before end of September.

I have a feeling that once the US leg is winding down, there will be all kinds of news around this whole situation...

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He will be on tour in Europe next spring for sure…

Thus proving BD's point. A word comes to mind. That word is sledgehammer.

I mean, it doesn't matter. It's not up to me or anyone else where artists decide to tour. Just that half the world is treated as if it doesn't exist.

I expect them to play the same set in North America. I don't think they will change anything...

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I expect them to play the same set in North America. I don't think they will change anything...

In my opinion Big Time was the weak link in an otherwise brilliant set. I’m biased though as I really don’t think it’s a strong song. Ditch it and put Secret World in its place, then you have an almost perfect setlist!

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That's funny

I thought the same BEFORE I saw the show. Why the hell did he choose BT?

Then after the show I knew. It was a brilliant performance.

It was as good a performance of a pretty weak song as it could be.

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It was as good a performance of a pretty weak song as it could be.

I'm hoping he keeps Big Time-it's not my favorite, but it is one of my daughter's...She'll be sad if they drop it!

I would argue Digging in the Dirt is a lesser song than Big Time. If he drops one of his old ones, I'd hope it'd be that one-maybe for Games w/o Frontiers in it's place...I wouldn't mind seeing The Tower or On the Air in there either!

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I would argue Digging in the Dirt is a lesser song than Big Time. If he drops one of his old ones, I'd hope it'd be that one-maybe for Games w/o Frontiers in it's place...I wouldn't mind seeing The Tower or On the Air in there either!

I'm completely the opposite on DitD & BT. I find Digging brilliant live. If I were going again I'd hope BT was dropped to help de-emphasise the focus on So among the older selections. It'd be good to see something else from 1 & 3, and anything at all from 2 and 4.