The former Genesis frontman will be performing in Paris, Lille and Bordeaux next year as part of his first solo tour in almost a decade, to present his new album to be released by then.
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He will have had the elegance to wait for the end of Genesis and Phil Collins’ farewell tour, completed at the end of March 2022, to announce his big return: Peter Gabriel, who co-founded the group in its infancy before taking the tangent in solo in 1975 after six albums, will be on a world tour next year to defend a brand new record. The fans, who believed him to be more or less retired from the scene, no longer dared to hope.
The European leg of the tour, which will begin on May 18 in Poland and end on June 25 in Dublin, will make three stops in France: May 23 in Paris (AccorArena), May 24 in Lille (Stade Pierre Mauroy) and June 15 in Bordeaux (Arkéa Arena). Tickets are on presale from Thursday November 10 on the Live Nation website and the official box office opens Friday November 11 at 10 a.m.
Until then, Peter Gabriel announces the release of a new album called I/O, a long-awaited project, whose details and release date are still unknown. This will be his first studio album of original songs since Up, published 20 years ago, and which had taken him 12 long years to produce, busy as he was with his many humanitarian commitments. As for this tour, it is the first solo since Back To The Front Tour in 2014, which celebrated his mythical album So (1986).
“It’s been a long time and I now have loads of new tunes that I’m excited to take for a spin on the road. I look forward to meeting you“, he wrote in a statement posted on his official website.
On stage, surrounded by his faithful musicians Manu Katché on drums, Tony Levin on bass and David Rhodes on guitar, the multi-instrumentalist singer promises an unprecedented show mixing his greatest hits (we are of course thinking of Sledgehammer and to Don’t Give Uphis duet with Kate Bush) to the new titles of I/O, with “surprises“.