Peter has just announced that following his successful tour in Mexico and South America earlier this year, he will play his only European date in support of Witness at WOMAD Charlton Park on Saturday July 25th. Both day and weekend festival tickets are available.

"This will be my only show in Europe this year, and I am delighted it will be for Witness.org. I had no plans to play in the UK but when Festival Director, Chris Smith, heard I was looking for a suitable event, he generously offered the Saturday at WOMAD. We are trying to raise £100,000 for Witness" Peter Gabriel

Peter's June Full Moon Club video finds The Wrting Room a hive of activity around the 'Scratch My Back' project. Peter tells us that "You may be hearing it sooner than never and sooner than I normally mean when I say sooner" We also hear about a meeting of The Elders in The Atlas mountains, ideas for cooling the brain with Heath Robinson like ingenuity - does a cool head lead to quicker thinking? There's been an productive strategy meeting for Witness in London and Peter tells us that his drive to raise funds for the organization should see another live show from him in Europe this summer or later in the autumn. We also hear news of a fantastic project to build a new arts/performance centre for the Zawose Family in Bagamoyo and Peter gets in a plug for Real World Records releases by Spiro, Dub Colossus and Dengue Fever and music from Charlie Winston on The B&W Society of Sound.

Elsewhere around the site WOMAD have been busy with events in Abu Dhabi and Caceres and enriching the line-up for WOMAD Charlton Park with Roy Ayers, Orishas, Los Desterrados and Charlie Winston amongst the latest additions. Cameras have been cropping up all over the place as a German film crew gather material for a new documentary on Peter and Real World. The Big Room has been in 'film mode' with final mixing for a very exciting, but as yet top secret feature film, and amongst the sounds drifting out into the spring warmth and verdant greens of the gardens has been a new project opening up Syrian culture to our shaded western eyes - Damascus is our current hot tip - having been a city for over 4000 years, maybe it's time to take a look.