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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 10h
Peter's new 13-track album o\i will be yours on November 27th. o\i is available as two double LPs: one for the Bright-Side mixes and one for the Dark-Side mixes, as well as four disc CD including both mixes and a hard cover CD book. Available to pre-order now. lnk.to/PG24
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Harvest full moon sees the release of Face the Wall. "After last month, where we were ‘looking for the happy’, we can just follow that line all the way through and come to Face the Wall, which is looking directly in the face of death.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Peter photographed by Arnold Newman at Real World Studios in 2002. 📸
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"‘UP’ is a positive word and I think if I listen to the music now there are some pretty miserable songs there so I don’t know if it fits that well but I’ve sort of grown with it and I think personally I’m in a good place at the moment and probably more up than the previous couple of albums
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kiss That Frog was released this week in 1993 as the fourth single from 'US'. The music video was directed by Brett Leonard and won an MTV Video Music Award in 1994 for Best Visual Effects. Brett Leonard also directed Virtuosity, which featured Peter's track 'Party Man'.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shock The Monkey was released #onthisday in 1982 as the first single from Peter's fourth album, performed at Sanremo Music Festival in 1983. "Most people saw that as a sort of animal rights song, but it wasn’t actually, it was a song about jealousy." - pg
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"When we see these images, we're reacting spontaneously to something that feels right… [and] it's great when you start researching you see all these other connections that do make it feel part of a whole.” - pg
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"There's a wonderful piece of art that goes with the song this month by an artist based in amercia, Tishan Hsu. I've only recently come across his work and I was blown away. I thought it had a sort of childlike simpicity in one sense,
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Digging In The Dirt was looking at the darker side of myself. I was also reading a book about anger expressed in different ways. That was allowing me to get into different subject-matter.” - pg Digging in the Dirt was the first single from 'US', released today in 1992.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"The groove is so important to me. If I don't feel it in my body then it doesn't interest me very often. Some lovely playing all over this song and Manu particularly does some great stuff.“
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"‘Four, in some ways, was a more home-produced album, partly because it was the first one in my own studio. Initially, we had a mobile outside the farm building and then gradually built a studio as we went along.” - pg Peter Gabriel 4: Security was released this week in 1982.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Dark-Side Mix of Looking For The Happy is out now. Listen here: lnk.to/PGS43
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Barry Williams Show performed at the Growing Up Live tour. This track was released today in 2002.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"If you can find what in today, in now, is making you happy and what you're grateful for, I think it's a better starting point. And as I get older, I try to do a little more of that" - pg Watch the full video on YouTube. youtu.be/dv-dp_XKZI0
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"I've always thought that your music collection is like a box of pills, that can change your mood according to which songs you pick out.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"It's about conciousness, about people, nature, and the marriage with technology, and the search for happiness." - pg Watch the full video on YouTube. youtu.be/dv-dp_XKZI0
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"We’ve lost another extraordinary talent this week; maybe the most appreciated of all contemporary visual artists, Yayoi Kusama.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Secret World Live was originally released on VHS on this day in 1994. The tour, in support of the album Us, saw Peter play more than 150 shows around the world in 1993 and 1994.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Peter makes a surprise appearance in the latest episode of Apple TV's dystopian drama Silo. The scene takes place in the ‘past', just as the Silo project is getting started and Peter can be seen sound checking for an event promoting the underground Silo initiative.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Starmus Festival co-founders Sir Brian May and Garik Israelian present Sir Ridley Scott with the 2026 Stephen Hawking medal for science communication. Sir Ridley is being honoured for a visionary body of work spanning Alien, Blade Runner, Prometheus, The Martian and now Dog Stars.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"I've always found it so much easier to write sad songs than happy ones and I thought, right, I'm going to challenge myself here. I wanted to base it on a groove that made dancing irresistible, it felt like it was unleashing some joy." - pg
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"A world without Dolly feels empty. Maybe the Smoky Mountains should now have their own giant Rushmore-like carving of their own daughter, Dolly – the little girl who grew up to become the Queen of America." - pg petergabriel.com/news/dolly-g... Photo via Wiki Commons.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"I agreed to do the first European leg and see how it went from there. I really enjoyed the energy and excitement of mixing live. One show led to another and after a few weeks I was hooked. I ended up doing the whole tour, 162 shows in total,
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#throwback to the 2003 Growing Up Live tour with Peter and his daughter Melanie, performing Downside Up upside-down!
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"As the night came, you’d suddenly pick up all sorts of radio stations that you couldn't in daylight. So that was quite mysterious to me and beguiling" - pg
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today marks the anniversary of "Biko", released as a single in 1980 following Peter's third album which features the song. This video was created in support of the film Cry Freedom in 1987.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"I want everybody to know that Mozo is here" Peter's new track One by One brought Mozo back, but his origin story begins with On The Air released in 1978. This performance was for German TV show Rockpalast in 1978.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"We're remarkably easy to break and trying to reassemble self, psyche and sanity, is really the journey of the song." - pg The Dark-Side Mix of One by One is out now. Listen now: lnk.to/PGS42
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"This idea in the song as in the jigsaw and the pulling apart of these pieces, then reassemling them. To me, it looked in David Altmejd's work that he's got a similar direction in that he's taking the same thing, cutting it up and reassembling. For me that worked perfectly for this song." - pg
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"One of the things I loved about what David Altmejd does is that he seems to get these images or ideals and cut them up and reassemble them, almost like moments in time. This idea of going beyond where our heads normally are and finding this other substance there that is beyond time." - pg
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Some people will find this interminably long, but I actually like the length and I like the fact that you have to stay in it for a long time to feel the story. If they're on for the ride, they're going to take it through to the end." - pg Watch the video on YouTube. youtu.be/H1BtxVP5biY
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Mozo is back from the dead! "I needed a character for the story and I'd always wanted to do a little more with Mozo, who I had introduced many years back, and I thought, well, let's give him another blast here." - pg Watch the video on YouTube. youtu.be/H1BtxVP5biY
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"It starts with a single piano note, and then goes into this world of multiple tinkly things, and ghost-like chords come out of that. Then you go into the psyche in some way" -pg Watch the video on YouTube. youtu.be/H1BtxVP5biY
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Everyone has written a song on these chords and they're so classic, but I'm trying to do things a bit differently with them so it becomes this evolving drone background on to which you place these words." - pg Watch the video on YouTube. youtu.be/H1BtxVP5biY
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"This is another song that comes out of the brain show that I am working on and the character has been effectively torn apart and is trying to reassemble himself one piece at a time" - pg One by One is the latest song to be released from o\i. Listen now and watch the full video youtu.be/H1BtxVP5biY
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The longest song on the record and very much a story driven track, 'One by One' (Bright-Side Mix)' is out now. The artwork for this track is called ‘Pieces’ and is by David Altmejd. Listen now: lnk.to/PGS42
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Reflecting back to Clive Arrowsmith's shoot with Peter in Bath, 1978. These photographs were featured in an exhibition in Bath, 2018.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The first year for the Womad Festival at its new home of Neston Park. Here’s Peter on the World Stage with festival director, Chris Smith. Photo by York Tillyer
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#onthisday Peter shared the stage with Sting to play the final show on their Rock Paper Scissors tour in 2016. The tour ran from June 21st to July 24th. 📸 Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Throwing back to WOMAD 1982 with Peter performing The Rhythm of the Heat, in celebration of this year's festival starting tomorrow.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“So sad to learn of Roger Bolton’s death. He was a remarkable man in many ways. Kind and generous are the first words that come to mind, Roger was always as enthusiastic about helping others as he was with his own work." - PG
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Celebrating International Moon Day with a throwback to WOMAD 2023's "Museum of the Moon" by Luke Jerram.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This weekend marks the anniversary of the very first WOMAD Festival in 1982. "Because WOMAD was unique in its focus on music and art from around the world, and mixing it up with rock and jazz, no-one knew how many people might turn up and we had seriously overestimated our appeal.“
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The artwork for I Belong To The Sky is an image from Berndnaut Smilde that can represent a lot of different things, but intuitively felt right for the song... Watch the full video on YouTube now. youtu.be/dHEPr7rYrhc
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'Come Talk To Me' was featured on Apple TV show 'Silo' in the end credits of season 3 episode 1 "Who Are You?". The track was released in 1992 on Peter's sixth album, 'Us'. This version is from the Secret World Live Tour featuring Paula Cole.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"It's this mixture of the outside world and interior world and I think that's what the song is all about. It's this mix between the interior and exterior and the trainsiton between them." - Peter on the artwork for I Belong To The Sky by Berndnaut Smilde Watch the full video now youtu.be/dHEPr7rYrhc
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Dark-Side mix of 'I Belong To The Sky' is out now. Listen now lnk.to/PGS41 Artwork by Berndnaut Smilde.
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"I like a good scream" Peter talks about letting loose with vocals and some great advice for fellow singers. Watch the full video on YouTube now. youtu.be/dHEPr7rYrhc
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"The best feeling for a musician is when you're in the pocket, in the groove, and it's all happening." - PG Watch the full video on YouTube now. youtu.be/dHEPr7rYrhc
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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"I'm a strong believer that the world is more malleable than we think and that if you really make strong pictures of something happening, you really affect the chances of it materialising." - PG Watch the full video on YouTube now. youtu.be/dHEPr7rYrhc
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