Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“I think music is a cathartic process for a lot of us. When I'm singing at the end 'I see you coming through' that is a cathartic moment. It suggests there is a reason to be hopeful." - pg Watch the full video on YouTube. youtu.be/_KhG0ppmews 113620
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"I know it's a long journey and we're nearly getting towards the end of it. There's going to be 13 tracks on this album as against 12 on the last. Thank you for being interested, long may you stay that way." -pg Pre-order o\i now. lnk.to/PG24 415117
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Face the Wall, looking directly in the face of death. A nice cheerful subject.” - pg The full moon video for Face the Wall is available to watch on YouTube now. youtu.be/_KhG0ppmews 1636
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Includes art by Nadav Kander, Francis Alÿs, Shirin Neshat, Tomás Saraceno, Tadashi Kawamata, Cortical Labs 2301
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"This record has been more of a marathon than a sprint - it’s the longest album I have ever put out with 13 tracks that complete the i/o / o\i 25 track joint project." - pg Pre-order o\i now. lnk.to/PG24 614121
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Peter'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 918742
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A nice, cheerful subject. The lyric is partly about getting older, facing illness, and it's looking death in the face, which I think we don't do enough of." - pg The cover art is called ‘The Nest. Amos Rex’ by Tadashi Kawamata. Photographed by Mika Huisman. Listen here: lnk.to/PGS44 1335
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The 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. 57814
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Peter photographed by Arnold Newman at Real World Studios in 2002. 📸 313811
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026so maybe there is some relationship there but, I don’t think there is so much relationship in the music itself. I’ve always found it harder to write happy music than sad music." - pg 'UP' was released today in 2002. 0402
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 49015
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Kiss 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'. 08012
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Shock 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 1019745
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The artwork for Looking for the Happy is from artist, Tishan Hsu. Watch the full video on YouTube. youtu.be/dv-dp_XKZI0 0202
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 1658
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026but there's this mix and technological reference, and in the way that the song was talking about trying to explore consciousness, technology and nature, I think he does that in some of his own work." - pg Watch the full video on YouTube. youtu.be/dv-dp_XKZI0 0252
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, 2556
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. 314526
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“The better musicians you work with, the less you have to say to them and the more you want them just to do their thing and be themselves." - pg Watch the full video on YouTube. youtu.be/dv-dp_XKZI0youtu.beIt felt like it was unleashing some joy... Peter Gabriel on making new song 'Looking for the Happy'YouTube video by Peter Gabriel 0472
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.“ 521119
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. 512321
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Dark-Side Mix of Looking For The Happy is out now. Listen here: lnk.to/PGS43 06314
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"‘The Barry Williams Show’ is definitely an observation on TV culture and I didn’t realise at the time of choosing the name Barry Williams, which was effectively out of a hat, that there would be various well known Barry Williams." - pg 0201
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Barry Williams Show performed at the Growing Up Live tour. This track was released today in 2002. 3638
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 632649
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's so much easier to write miserable songs than it is happy ones, so I thought I'm going to challenge myself here and although this is about the search for happiness, I need to get something that feels it's like a celebration" - pg Watch the full video on YouTube. youtu.be/dv-dp_XKZI0 0392
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. 410913
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 16111
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026She will always stand out to me as a totally unique artist and one of the very few giants of contemporary art." -pg Read in full >> petergabriel.com/news/yayoi-k...petergabriel.comYayoi Kusama - PeterGabriel.comWe’ve lost another extraordinary talent this week; maybe the most appreciated of all contemporary visual artists, Yayoi Kusama. I was introduced to Yayoi’s work in the 90s by David Elliot, who at that... 0233
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Pumpkins and polka dots, hallucinations and infinity rooms, her art was, in part, a means of managing her mental health. I feel very lucky to have had the chance to work and spend time with her. 1160
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026 I was introduced to Yayoi’s work in the 90s by David Elliot, who at that time was running the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford. Straightaway, I found myself very drawn to her world. Although the work at first looked childlike and innocent, you could feel the intensity that lay underneath. 160
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. 2513
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Secret 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. 411717
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Peter 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. 1013624
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Starmus 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. 0538
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Looking for the Happy is out today, on the sturgeon full moon. Cover art 'Closed Circuit II' by Tishan Hsu Listen now: lnk.to/PGS43lnk.toLooking for the HappyListen to content by Peter Gabriel. 0527
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 713834
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. 118429
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026plus all the WOMAD festivals, the US Lollapalooza tour, the Woodstock festival, the Grammys and a few TV appearances along the way." - Pete Walsh Peter and Pete Walsh photographed mixing Secret World Live at Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris in 1993. 2332
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, 2513
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! 410721
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 49611
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Today 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. 617138
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. 27610
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 07510
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Watch the video on YouTube. youtu.be/H1BtxVP5biYyoutu.beThe return of Mozo! Peter Gabriel full moon update for new song One by OneYouTube video by Peter Gabriel 0212
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 2525
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Watch the video on YouTube. youtu.be/H1BtxVP5biYyoutu.beThe return of Mozo! Peter Gabriel full moon update for new song One by OneYouTube video by Peter Gabriel 1263
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 1504
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 28711
