June's Full Moon 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.

Peter talks about progress on his 'scratch my back' covers project, with Bob Ezrin and John Metcalf both in the studio to work on the project. We get a report on the success of the recent WOMAD Abu Dhabi where Robert Plant made a special guest appearance with Justin Adams and Juldeh Camera whose new Real World Records release Tell No Lies is out on May 11th.

Peter gives a mention to the many Real World Records artists are to be found playing live at venues around the world in the coming months, amongst whom is Mamer, a singer/songwriter who was raised in Xinjiang, one of ten children for whom singing and playing the two-string dombra lute was as much a part of life as sunrise.

Peter recounts tales of recent travels and tour dates in Mexico and Latin America, music, warmth, human rights campaigning, sickness and happy memories from 18 days on the road. We also hear about Speed Caravan, the current inhabitants of Real World's Big Room, new music from Justin Adams and Juldeh Camera, a great new release by Mamer recorded in Urumqi and Beijing and an animation competition running with Aardman Animations.

Peter's March update finds him on an airbase not far from Real World with band in full production rehearsals for the shows in Mexico and South America later this month. Peter talks about the rehearsals, the Encore Series, Charlie Winston's continued success in France, being bitten by a 'Slumdog' at the Oscars and the current release on the B&W music Club by Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara.

Peter talks about a spate of award nominations and ceremonies including the Golden Globe Awards, the Grammy Awards and the Oscars, all of which have 'Down To Earth' from Walle in ther short lists. Enriching 'brain food' is recounted, having been eaten both at The World Economic forum and TED in the last couple of weeks. There is news of music from Charlie Winston and Spiro, whose track 'Antrobus' features in this month's video. If that and the details missing from this description were not news a plenty, Peter also has an update on the forthcoming tour dates, 'Games Without Frontiers' on Real World Remixed and his work on the 'Scratch My Back' covers project in the studio.

Amongst the natural highlights to be found in this months update are an Otter and a Kingfisher. Peter also tells us about the nomination of 'Down To Earth' from the Walle soundtrack at The Golden Globe Awards; which means he'll be seeing this months full moon hanging over Los Angeles, Charlie Winston's success in France with 'Like a Hobo' (which is also the music featured in this months update). holiday trips and various frosty and wet developments Real World.

Peter talks about a trip to Armenia this year for a celebration of Djivan Gasparyan's 80th birthday, a flying visit to New York for the Witness Gala Benefit and the official launch of The Hub, a gathering of The Elders in Paris, his 'scratch my back' covers album project and the first confirmed tour dates for 2009.

Peter talks about the joys of November in Sardinia, his 'Scratch my Back' project, a chance to see Dengue Fever at Real World Studios and their new 7" single (only the second 7" vinyl released on Real World Records). On top of that comes WOMAD Charlton Park tickets and Peter's hosting of the Witness Gala Dinner in New York next week.

Peter talks about his performance at the Peace One Day event in London, receiving the Quadriga award "United We Care" in Germany, the soundtrack award for Walle, our Dub Colossus competition at realworldremixed.com and current work on technology and music projects.

All music comes from Dub Colossus in A Town Called Addis.

Peace One Day: http://www.peaceoneday.org
Quadriga Award: http://loomarea.com
World Soundtrack Acadamy: http://www.worldsoundtrackacademy.com
Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org
José Ramos Horta: http://en.wikipedia.org
Walle: http://www2.disney.co.uk
Marc Quinn: http://www.marcquinn.com
Real World Remixed competition: http://realworldremixed.com
Dub Colossus: http://realworldrecords.com

Peter's back from his summer in Sardinia with tales of an award from Amnesty International and promotion for their Small Places Tour. There's news of his appearance on September 21st at the Peace One Day concert in The Royal Albert Hall, our Dub Colossus remix competition, work in the studio and a tribute to the much missed Hector Zazou who died this week.

The music featured is 'Tushim' from Sevara Nazarkhan's Sen.

Links
Peace Day: http://www.peaceoneday.org
Small Places: http://www.myspace.com
Remix: http://realworldremixed.com
Hector Zazou: http://www.takticmusic.com

Peter's beamed a Full Moon Club video update our way from his summer base in Sardinia. Peter talks about his new son Luc, Nelson Mandela's 46664 concert and birthday dinner party in London, a meeting of The Elders in South Africa, Big Blue Ball and WOMAD Charlton Park all with a Mistral blown Sardinian coastline backdrop.

More on the Mistral
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Peter's doing the right thing and taking a month off from Full Moon updates in order to fully pursue his increased paternal responsibilities.

As you can see from our clip, time is flying past at Real World, so hopefully Peter will be back on Moon Club duty before you know it. We've grabbed a song- Ngadu Gwe from The Zawose Family's 'Small Things Fall From The Baobab Tree' CD to accompany the video and thank you for dropping by.

The Zawose Family are at The Edinburgh Festival this year:
http://www.theworldfestival.com
Along with Children of the Khmer, who can also be seen at WOMAD Charlton Park this month:
http://www.womad.org
Where Peter will be giving a talk with Karl Wallinger about Big Blue Ball, a record that brings us back to The Zawose's as it features the late lamented Dr Hukwe Zawose on the track Forest:
http://realworldrecords.com

Peter talks about promoting Big Blue Ball by thinking round in Aachen, some musical highlights coming up at WOMAD, interviews for The Filter and the B&W Music Club, along with a welcome return for The Zawose Family and a first outing for Cambodian dance troop Children Of The Khmer at The Edinburgh Fringe. Excepts of Forest from Big Blue Ball complete the circle with the voice of Hukwe Zawose.

http://realworldrecords.com
http://www.ludwigforum.de
http://www.womad.org
http://www.bowers-wilkins.com
http://cambodianlivingarts.co.uk

Peter talks about the mystery of our disappearing servers, the final edit of Wall e, music from the Bowers and Wilkins Music Club, new Real World signings Dengue Fever, Big Blue Ball and additions to Real World Remixed.

http://www.pixar.com
http://www.bowers-wilkins.com
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.rockstarbands.co.uk
http://www.we7.com
http://www.route-charlemagne.eu

Peter's back in the studio after some electric times in Sardinia and an eventful trip to California which included Global Philanthropy, Google's Larry Brilliant, The Filter, an encounter with a Lightsabre at Skywalker Ranch, and inspired recollections of an astronaut's floating hot-tub. You can catch tales of his travels and find him blending Brttany Spears with Dr Dre, all in the month's Full Moon Club video update.

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More on Dub Colossus at http://realworldrecords.com

Ruminations on The Elders meeting in Necca, an update on work for WALL e, a call for suggestions of songs Peter should cover, Big Blue Ball, Amnesty International and a night out with Goldfrapp.

To make your suggestions of songs to cover visit http://petergabriel.com