PG at Real World Studios, April 2025. Photo: York Tillyer
Saturday, 12 April 2025 is Record Store Day. It’s also the pink full moon.
Following on from Live Blood in 2022, Rated PG in 2019 and the two Scratch My Back 7″s of way back in 2010, this year our Record Store Day offering is OVO.
Originally released in June 2000, it’s the 25th anniversary of the album and the first time on vinyl.
OVO is Peter Gabriel’s soundtrack to the Millennium Dome Show in London, the 160-artist extravaganza that underwent 999 performances during the 365 days in 2000 that the Dome was open. Helping to tell the story of three generations of the same family living through three distinct eras – the past, the present, the future – Gabriel’s soundtrack accordingly draws from deep, long-held tradition and from contemporary grooves.
OVO boasts a stellar cast, including Cocteau Twin Elizabeth Fraser, Neneh Cherry, Paul Buchanan from The Blue Nile and Iarla Ó Lionáird as well as Jocelyn Pook, Will Gregory, BT, The Dhol Foundation and The Black Dyke Band.
Some of the tracks from OVO have become fixtures of the Gabriel canon and regular live favourites, among them Downside-Up, Father, Son and The Tower That Ate People.
The 2LP coloured vinyl edition has been half-speed remastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis and comes in a gatefold sleeve, with printed inner bags and a 20-page booklet with The Story of OVO.
Please support your local record shop / store. Find participating stores here!
