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I asked my daughter Anna to film the show that we were planning to play with an orchestra at the Arena di Verona, which is an extraordinary place in which to be able to perform. The show, on 26 September 2010, was captured by Anna Gabriel and the material she shot forms the basis of two films: ‘Scratch My Back’ and ‘Taking The Pulse – Live in Verona’. Originally released as a 15 track CD on 28 August 1994, the album was recently released on digital platforms with the addition of the track San Jacinto and was released for the fist time on vinyl in November 2020.For the performance Peter was joined by orchestrator and musical director John Metcalfe, conductor Ben Foster, leader Louisa Fuller and pianist Tom Cawley, along with vocalists Melanie Gabriel and Ana Brun and the New Blood Orchestra.
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A lovely way to finish – the suitcase fitted with this sense of a journey that we’d designed the show around.”Īt the centre of it all though, is a thoroughly committed and total performance by Peter himself – further consolidating his reputation as a ringmaster of dynamism and daring – as captured by the concert film, directed by François Girard, which is also available. The show features many memorable set pieces, including Peter’s emergence within the red telephone box for ‘Come Talk to Me’ to open the show, the use of the moving walkway for ‘Across the River’, the literal ‘Steam’ effects and the tree that appears for ‘Shaking The Tree.’Īs Peter told UNCUT magazine in 2020, “There was a moment, entirely Robert’s idea, where it looked as if we climbed into these suitcases on the moving walkway – we were actually disappearing into a trapdoor – and that was the end of the show. Two drum kits, two mirrored sets of vocal mics and a complicated cable run from one stage to the other connecting all the other instruments.” Two stages meant we needed two of almost everything. It was, however, a technical challenge, as Peter Walsh the front of house sound engineer (and co-producer of the live album) remembers in his interview for this website, “It was a very large and complex setup as you can imagine.
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The movement between the two was a key subtext to the overall show. The traditional stage represented an urban, industrial and male world, whilst the circular stage was more rural, open and nourishing. Peter worked with Robert Lepage to conceive and stage the show, which consisted of a traditional proscenium arch stage connected to a circular stage (in the centre of the audience) by a moving walkway. Peter on vocals and keyboards and special guests Papa Wemba and Molokai. Peter Gabriel, Secret World Live by Laurence Le Blancĭuring this tour Peter’s band consisted of Manu Katché (drums), Tony Levin (bass, vocals), David Rhodes (guitars, vocals), Jean Claude Naimro – replacing Joy Askew who started the tour – (keyboards, vocals), Shankar (violin, vocals), Levon Minassian (doudouk) and Paula Cole (vocals).