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Post by Zenrider on Mar 2, 2015 16:02:16 GMT
On his website it's still artists releasing on his label and talking about anniversaries of other albums. This time his orchestral tour of covers... petergabriel.com/news/scratch-my-back-5-years-on/ Seriously, is he afraid his new work won't be as well accepted as his old? I will always love his music and if he'd just come out and say, I really don't want to do anything new, I'd rather manage new bands, leave me alone about it. I'd be OK with that. Not thrilled, but OK. After so many years of him teasing us that something is coming, I'm working on an album, here help me write a song, and coming up with nothing. Well, even my patience is running out on the matter. |
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Post by beef on Mar 3, 2015 19:09:09 GMT
Yes, I saw that article too Zenrider. The last ten years or so of PG's career don't make sense - but why? Even something that should have been an easy-to-please-the-fans-moment (the So 25 re-release) was a half-baked over-priced missed opportunity. I can't remember the last time I played any PG at all - must be at least a year or more - I'm just utterly bored with it and puzzled as to why PG seems content to just go through over-priced acts of nostalgia, while constantly teasing with hints of "new stuff". Can't honestly claim to be a fan anymore.
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Post by beef on Feb 12, 2016 19:30:27 GMT
...one year later
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Post by deserttraveller on Feb 21, 2016 21:09:16 GMT
I agree Mr B the last 10 years have been an uneasy time, New Blood which wasnt really, Scratch my Back, not new and the experiments with monkeys not shocked and lately the tour with Sting. I love PG music, it bought me to Womad but it must be difficult to keep going after so long, maybe he wants to spend time chilling out with the grandchildren, who wouldnt, he is someone who would be thinking of retiring if he had a 9 to 5. I'd be happy if he collaborated with Real World freinds on a song or two on their albums.
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Post by beef on Feb 23, 2016 20:42:05 GMT
Well, that's the bit I don't understand DT - I would imagine that touring is a much heavier burden on time, energy and family than the occasional bit of recording in one's extremely well-appointed home studio. . . in the meantime. . . expensively flawed box sets of the same old "old stuff", art prints, year-after-year tours with "all the extras" options for just a few hundred quid. . . and all the while the odd promise of "new stuff". I really don't mind the lack of new material - it was the messing about and killing of the forum and the ongoing apparent disregard for "fans'" decades of support - are they anything more than wallets with easily-pleased ears? It's the dissonance these things cause in my head that bothers me, because I used to be a big fan, and in my heart still am. I just don't listen or spend anymore.
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