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Peter Gabriel / In The Big Room and Live at WOMAD 1982

First physical release + Live at WOMAD 1982

By Paul Sinclair

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Peter Gabriel / Live at WOMAD 1982

Peter Gabriel’s 2003 live performance in the ‘Big Room’ at Real World Studios gets a physical release on CD and vinyl in March.

This intimate concert was for members of Peter Gabriel’s Full Moon Club and took place during a short run of live shows in November 2003 that also included a performance for the UK’s Children in Need charity at Cyfarthfa Castle in Merthyr Tydfil, a show at the Brighton Centre and the Nelson Mandela 46664 Concert in Cape Town.

“I’d not really taken advantage of the big room as a performance space myself and when, in 2003, the opportunity came up, we grabbed it and offered the small number of seats to members of the Full Moon club. It was not part of a big tour so we weren’t as polished and rehearsed as we might have been while on tour, but it made for a more awake and edgy performance, as we were fully concentrating on what we were doing. There was no elaborate visual show, the whole focus was about making it sound good. I had pretty much forgotten how these songs sounded but listening back to these mixes I was pleasantly surprised how alive they were. I hope you enjoy this as much as we did”. – pg

The 14-song set draws on material from both the Growing Up Live tour (2002/2003) in support of his Up album -and the Still Growing Up Live tour that followed in 2004. The musicians Gabriel’s touring band from this period of Tony Levin (bass), David Rhodes (guitar), Ged Lynch (drums), Richard Evans (guitar, whistle, mandolin), Rachel Z (keyboard and backing vox) and Melanie Gabriel (backing vox).

In The Big Room is released on 2LP vinyl and as a 2CD set. Both contain the same songs and are packaged similarly, with the CDs coming in mini-LP vinyl replica sleeves. Live at WOMAD 1982 is also being released physically in May as a 2LP vinyl set (side 4 is etched) and on CD.

In The Big Room is released on 13 March 2026 while Live at WOMAD 1982 follows on 8 May 2026.

Tracklisting

Peter Gabriel / In The Big Room 2CD or 2LP vinyl

In The Big Room In The Big Room / 2CD or 2LP vinyl

    • CD 1 or LP 1
      1. Burn You Up, Burn You Down
      2. More Than This
      3. Games Without Frontiers
      4. Downside Up
      5. Mercy Street
      6. Darkness
      7. Digging In The Dirt
      8. The Tower That Ate People
    • CD 2 or LP 2
      1. San Jacinto
      2. Shock The Monkey
      3. Signal To Noise
      4. Secret World
      5. Father, Son
      6. In Your Eyes

Tracklisting

Live at WOMAD 1982 Peter Gabriel /

      1. San Jacinto
      2. The Family and the Fishing Net
      3. I Have the Touch
      4. Lay Your Hands on Me
      5. Shock the Monkey
      6. I Go Swimming
      7. The Rhythm of the Heat
      8. Kiss of Life
      9. Biko

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