PETER GABRIEL Announces "New Blood - Scratch My Back" Concert Date

MUSIC NEWS - Peter Gabriel is bringing his 'Scratch My Back' album/project to select concert venues in early  2010, with only March 27, 2010 show at the O2 in London confirmed on the New Blood - Scratch My Back Tour.

Gabriel describes the upcoming "Scratch My Back" album, due out February 15, 2020 (via Virgin Records), as a very personal record with the twelve songs performed only with orchestral instruments and voice. The material he's chosen is a diverse line up- from Bowie, Paul Simon, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire and Neil Young (among others). To help on the recording Peter enlisted John Metcalfe as composer/arranger, producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin’) and the engineer, mixer and producer Tchad Blake (Suzanne Vega, Sheryl Crow, Tom Waits).  The project  was recorded at George Martin’s Air Lyndhurst Studios and the Real World Temple with further editing back at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, UK.

Update 12/31/09 - Gabriel will perform tunes from "Scratch My Back" with an orchestra at these add'l March shows: March 22 in Paris (Palais Omnisports),  March 25 in Berlin (O2 World) and March 28 in London (The O2).

Comments

[Johnny Folken]

LOOKING VERY FORWARD TOO THIS CONCERT..IT'S BEEN WAY TOO LONG....HIS LAST TOUR WAS AMAZING...HALF OF MY FAMILY WENT....IN MPLS MN. TARGET CENTER....HOPE HE MAKES IT BACK....
LIFETIME OF MEMORIES..OF ALL HIS SONGS...
AND LOOKING TO "NEW BLOOD-SCRATCH MY BACK"...
VERY INTERESTED>>>>>>>>