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... to be released by Gonzo Multimedia in June.

All details here:

/ Peter Gabriel: "Birdy" Bespoke Boxset comes in June

We are basically done with all 11 parts of the compendium.

Right now we are working on a major website update (we have been since February) and have put major updates on hold. We hope to be back on track soon, but I assume we won’t continue until after the summer.

But we will!

So here we have Downside-Up from the same show

But: They announced another demo - plus a track we all know but not with this person singing ....

That was five years ago yesterday. Time flies ...

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A rather dark horse on the "Unfulfillment" album is this track. The older it gets, the more I like it.

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I kind of rediscovered the Unfulfillment album recently. There are quite a few good tracks on that record, including this one.

The new Villagers album is just outstanding. I love this band, despite a few average releases. The last one was okay. But this is really stunning.

An example

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You’re right. Im very sad that the I/O Tour was so short…

This wasn't really a surprise. Quite obviously the album production was expensive, so he probably needed a tour to finance that. Then again, he's 74, so I didn't really expect a longer tour. I even found it surprising he did Europa AND North America.

Peter lives his life and family means everything for him, he doesn't have to do all that touring etc. So no wonder he did limit that to what's necessary and a bit of fun probably.

Even if a new album is coming within the next 1-2 years, I wouldn't expect him to tour again .....

More dates added in New York City and LA, as expected

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He doesn’t have so much new tracks (maybe 4 or 5 songs…) and it’s for the next album.

They have worked on 22/23 tracks and finished 17 of them, so there are 5 finished tracks remaining. Plaus there might be an option to do new versions of Show Yourself (this track has not been part of Rated PG) and PG said in one of his Full Moon videos that he would like to continue with new music in 2024 - and indeed those tracks would then be for another new album. No contradiction here ....

Tracks we are aware of are:

What Lies Ahead

Put The Bucket Down

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been rather busy for a while - but here is another one:

"Lemon Yellow Sun" is quite an usual track compared to the otzer tracks on "She" and the video is also from 2021.

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It's a good track but it quicky became his Sussudio for me (means I can't hear it anymnore). Today I'm fine with it.

As expected, shows for New York City and Los Angeles were announced today

29, 30 October LA Hollywood Bowl

4, 5 November NYC Madison Square Garden

Only North American cities, but it's likely they will add extra shows in both cities.

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Absolutely.

I don't know whether I'm making this up, but I seem to remember rumours at the time saying they had considered replacing it with Jesus He Knows Me.

Wow. What a change to the feeling of the setlist that would have been.

No, that was In Too Deep - they discussed to play In Too Deep in America instead of Ripples.

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More dates in Rome - and that's it for Europe!

My impression is he will do a selection of shows in very few cities (a bit like Phil in 2017) and won't travel that far.

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I remember mucking about with this song endlessly in the EVE computer game.

Anyone remember that one?

Yes, I do ...

I still have it somewhere but I am pretty sure it doesn't work on my system now.

Another live track was added to the Lunatics In The Big Room live album: Games Without Frontiers

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Not complaining but just wondering why does Mike Rutherford limit his tours to only the UK and sometimes Europe.

He last played in North America in 2015 and long before that in 1989 when I saw him in Montreal.

According to setlist.com, his grand total to date of Mike & The Mechanics Canadian shows is a mere 9.

North America is a tough market for the Mechanics so I assume in combination with the effort to fly over there, rather to play basically in the neighbourhood in the UK, is simply not easy to organize. Last year there only was UK and Germany.

But of course it would be nice to seem them play in more countries, I agree.

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