Peter Gabriel - WOMAD 2009
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Topic: Peter Gabriel - WOMAD 2009
Posted By: Dean
Subject: Peter Gabriel - WOMAD 2009
Date Posted: July 26 2009 at 11:31
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Before I begin - sorry this isn't much of a review - having "lost" the WOMAD day carpark on the way out we walked for a hour before finding a) the correct carpark and b) my car - I am now officially very tired and can't remember all the fine details from last night's performance... Anyway - it was GREAT! This was our first visit to a WOMAD festival and it probably won't be our last.
What I remember of the set list in no particular order - Boy In A Bubble, The Book of Love, Darkness, Steam, Big Time, Red Rain, Solsbury Hill, San Jacinto, Come Talk To Me, No Self Control, Games Without Frontiers, Downside Up and Biko (encore)
...yep opened with two cover songs from the "Scratch My Back" project - first from Paul Simon and the the second from Magnetic Fields.
To put things into perspective, this is a close as we could get to the stage for Gabriel's performance:
 So for my little compact digital camera it was a tall order to get any decent shots of the stage, let alone of any of the band, never-the-less, a few came out "passable":
The band:
 Mr Levin during Red Rain:
 Peter singing Biko:
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: July 26 2009 at 11:34
| Oh how I envy you. Nice pictures. I'd love to see Peter in concert soon. It has been too long for me. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 26 2009 at 14:00
Sounds great. Let's hope for a full tour very soon ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: July 26 2009 at 19:06
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Wonderful! Lots of fans and freaks there I guess - how many, Dean?  ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Paranoid_Eyes
Date Posted: July 27 2009 at 01:59
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Wow! Thats awesome! Would have loved to been there ------------- Happy as fish, gorgeous as geese |
Posted By: kerry5
Date Posted: July 27 2009 at 06:11
| First visit to WOMAD for us as well. We spent an hour finding the car park and the car. Perhaps we were wandering in the same groups of people. Note for next time - I must remember to take a torch. Great day though, we managed to get quite close to the front for PG. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 27 2009 at 06:31
^ Possibly - if there was a miserable old git in a leather hat near you having a paddy because he understanding how they could possibly be lost with his innate sense of direction - that was me 
...I know where we went wrong, but pride and hubris prevented me from doubling back.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: kerry5
Date Posted: July 27 2009 at 06:47
| I think we just got into the 'trudging along hoping to find something we recognised' state of mind. When we eventually found the car, we had to leave a man who was still looking for his Citroen AX I'm not sure if he was pleased for us or upset that he now had to wander on his own. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: July 27 2009 at 14:47
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Sounds like great event!
I am not any kind of expert on world music, but I have considered Peter's Womad label a sign of fine quality in this music genre.
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Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: July 27 2009 at 15:48
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Are those two songs confirmed for the Scratch my back album? I thought he recorded The book of love cover a long time ago. ------------- 
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 02:39
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Looks AMAZING!
Thanks for the post Dean -Joel ------------- 
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