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News seems to be filtering out that Peter is to return with a new tour of the U.S.A in June this year, so I'm going to throw a little more light on the plans. The tour will be taking a different form to last years 'Growing UP Live'. Those who saw that show will understand why it was simply not possible to take it everywhere we wanted to - it required a huge amount of headroom to suspend something like 30 tons of equipment from the ceiling. The new tour will fit in more venues so, finally it looks like all those in Atlanta who have petitioned for a performance will be rewarded.



The dates will be appearing in our Tours section next week with a similar pre-sale option to we offered on the last U.S.A dates.



The current list is unconfirmed, I'd view them as little more than rumour until we get them confirmed and they begin to appear in the Tours section. They are definatley not available for sale anywhere yet, so relax and check back with us next week.



8-Jun Los Angeles (Irvine) Verizon Amphitheatre

21-Jun Philadelphia Tweeter Center

29-Jun Detroit DTE Music Pavilion

2-Jul Indianapolis Verizon Amphitheatre

14-Jun West Palm Beach Coral Sky Amphitheatre

18-Jun Boston Tweeter Center

11-Jun Dallas Smirnoff

1-Jul Columbus Germain Amphitheatre

16-Jun Atlanta Chastain Park

22-Jun Washington D.C. Nissan Pavilion

7-Jun San Francisco Shoreline Amphitheatre

12-Jun Houston Woodlands

28-Jun Chicago Tweeter Center

20-Jun Holmdel PNC Bank Arts Pavilion

24-Jun Wantagh Jones Beach

26-Jun Milwaukee Marcus Amp./Summerfest

The eagle eyed amongst you may have spotted the growing list of tour dates for the coming months. Unfortunately it has not proved possible to get any pre-sale agreements in place for these dates, but hopefully you will still find yourselves at the front of the queue.

"Four years ago I co-founded (and am now a shareholder in) a digital downloading service with Charles Grimsdale, called OD2. I got involved because I thought there were interesting opportunities and I wanted to have access to digital delivery both for my work and for all the artists on Real World Records



Although OD2’s initial focus was the Independents, we are now Europe’s number one digital distributor for music working with all five majors and are about to launch in Australia and Asia this year.



We are determined that we should try and take advantage of this situation and help transform the music business in such a way that artists are on level terms with record companies, receive fair payments and have new opportunities to be their own retailer when they choose.



I have been developing ideas with Brian Eno for an alliance of artists to ensure that artists’ interests are treated fairly, as this new business model takes shape. This dream for MUDDA can only become a reality with enough endorsement and involvement of other artists." Peter Gabriel



More information on MUDDA will be coming soon.

For those with access to BBC1 Peter will be performing for the Children In Need appeal live from Cyfarthfa Castle in Merthyr Tydfil, Wlaes tonight. We have been informed the concert will be on around 9pm but as this is live TV there is a chance that he may be a little late!


Also we have updated the Growing Up Live DVD section with some new video clips, some technical info and some other goodies.