Posts by THOM
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If you consider the Growing Up Tour to be the tour for the album Up, there were 6 songs played from it. (At least at the beginning. The longer the tour went on, the less he played of it and replaced it with other (somehow) new stuff. At the last festival gigs there was nothing played of the Up album on that Still Growing Up Tour. For me that's quite unusual.)
But 6 songs of a new album in a concert is an average value, I think.
This time it's the other way around: Almost one half of the setlist is made of songs of a new album. That's unusual much.
And even more so, it is unusual to make half of the show of a whole new album, while half of the songs (Europe) nobody knows. - So the i/o Tour is in deed somehow special.
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The last month people came up with connections between songs that really made me stunned. As soon as two songs have three identical notes in it, someone will see them sharing parts...
So I do not take care about that.
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Probably we will never know...
In any case, the 2004 album i/o actually never came out.
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I see it coming: At the end we will have a veritable war between the two camps...
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Oh - it's in almost every DSM like that. - Best example is Love Can Heal* where so many details have been erased.
*back to topic
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It's true that the Bright-Side Mixes are more pop-like. But in general, I like them better. Occasionally they are a bit too pleasing and I am looking forward to the Dark-Side Mix. But then the Dark-Side Mix gets released and has some absolutely disqualifying elements, like loud and rough drum beats, that I still stay with the Bright-Side Mix.
Besides, they have much more details and elements to offer, they are not as brittle and empty as the Dark-Side Mixes. I think, in general they are more interesting.
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That's quite likely...
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Because the information is circulating that the American tour is so badly sold, I took the trouble to look at Ticketmaster to see what the current ticket status is.
I was able to see 24 of the 25 concerts (Quebec no longer). I couldn't get any meaningful information for three of them (the sales system seems to be different). Well.
First of all: None of the shows is sold out. - But:
10 concerts (almost the half) are excellently sold
7 concerts are sold reasonably well (there are gaps, but no yawning emptiness)
4 concerts only are lukewarmly sold (you will see the empty rows)
The start in the North East in Canada is going very well.
The first third of the USA tour is going very well to reasonably well. - The density of stops seems to have been set a little too optimistically, but it's okay.
The West Coast is going very well, the middle so-so.
Two of the three shows in Texas aren't doing well (the third was one with bad info, but also seemed lousy). I guess those three shows in relative proximity to each other - they misjudged.
The Back To Front Tour of America was much more airy set. Maybe it was too airy, they wanted to improve - now it was too daring.
On the whole, however, it doesn't look as if the entire tour will take place in front of empty halls or become a flop.
And maybe the ticket price will be lowered in the poorly selling cities shortly before the date and then something will move. - That remains to be seen.
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I doubt that there will be any changes to the setlist. - And PG has never done something like tributes.
It's pretty likely that the release of i/o will be in december or later. When all album tracks are released and only What Lies Ahead as a non-album-track has been left out.
(Why Secret World as a tribute to Sinnead? Do you mix it up with Come Talk To Me?)
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It would have to be not only to choose an uptempo number - after all that die-hard-fan stuff of new songs it would also have to be something known by everybody. A crowd pleaser.
I think there is nothing that could replace Big Time in this way.
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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.
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...or he plays the song with the personnel he has on stage...
Seriously, sometimes Peter is a bit too fixated on making a song sound exactly like it does on the album. I don't think that's necessary - but of course you have to come up with new solutions to replace a missing orchestra or an absent Nusrat. It is possible.
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Soll ich jetzt auf Deutsch antworten? Nur um die Sprachverwirrung noch zu vergrößern?
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I am pretty sure that on several more occasions the background singing is filled up by recordings of the Soweto Choir. Probably Peter thinks it would be too boring without.
I was also a bit disappointed when realizing it - but its way more tolerable than Signal To Noise on the Growing Up Live Tour where the last minutes of the song were completely playback...
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Since the photographer Nadav Kander is put a bit prominent into the tourbook, I believe one of his photographs will make the album cover. Maybe the one which is already on the tourbook cover?
And one remark: While the artworks for the US Album where directly made in respondse to the song, the artworks for i/o are collected together from existing works.
The only exception is the image for Olive Tree - and maybe the one for So Much - and maybe maybe the one for Road To Joy.
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As can be read on Facebook right now, the official video for The Court will be launched on Youtube tomorrow (8 August, 6 pm):
Peter Gabriel - The Court (Dark-Side Mix) (Oranguerillatan Official Video)
The video was submitted by Oranguerillatan for the Peter Gabriel / Stability AI #DiffuseTogether competition, which started in April 2023. The winners were announced in June, with this video winning third prize.
See our News for some more Info.
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I am a bit astonished, that everyone ist seeing in Olive Tree a link to Collins.
For me much more in foreground is that african feeling, which is a connection to Gabriel's times of worldmusic. Came very unexpected for me, but is indeed welcomed.