Peter Gabriel Tour Diary 2007 From Richard Chappell
We’ve been running (and will continue to) a tour diary by Richard Chappell (PG’s main engineer) with some great photos taken by York Tillyer (my boss) showing the glamour (not) of the early stages of setting up a major tour.
MIDI Marimbas, two drum kits and a vast array of lust-worthy equipment is on display.
The early stages are running to a close and they will be moving to production rehearsals soon and the first date is only a couple of weeks away.
They are working to a set list in part derived from a poll we held based on charts created by our registered members which threw up some very interesting leftfield choices, encouraged by Peter himself as he wanted to try to avoid playing the same songs played over the last two tours.
As usual the decision to start the diary and the required implementation date were essentially the same day (well not really but close!) but a quick tweak of the in-house news system and some extra rewrites to handle it was all it took. This quick turnaround is the advantage of having in-house staff and custom systems that are designed from the ground up to be flexible.
