Pushing the envelope and constantly reinventing himself is not new to Peter Gabriel, and it\u2019s something that his fans are quite used to. So taking his songs on the road and doing a tour with a 46-piece orchestra instead of a rock band might not seem that shocking Gabriel\u2019s fans. However, this definitely is somewhat of a strange concept, since the danger of losing the vitality of a rock show by swapping carefree rock musicians with uptight classical musicians is almost too apparent.<\/p>\n
What is more surprising than the fact that there was a missing rock band on Gabriel\u2019s New Blood tour was that the rock band was not missed at all! The lucky ones who managed to be at one of these concerts would attest to this. Although a totally new experience, the New Blood tour was anything but drab. All the songs on this tour had completely new treatments, perfectly suiting an orchestral sound. This wasn\u2019t just taking any Peter Gabriel song, and adding some strings and brass to it.\u00a0 Even the song selection seemed thoughtful \u2013 hence no \u201cSteam,\u201d \u201cSledgehammer,\u201d or \u201cBig Time,\u201d which might not be the best choices for this setting.<\/p>\n
As is the case usually with Peter Gabriel, this tour was a rich audio-visual experience, with the visuals playing a huge part in making the concerts more spectacular. The dramatic sounds of the orchestra rending Gabriel\u2019s loaded songs wouldn\u2019t have the same effect without the splendid lighting and imagery effects. The lanky orchestra conductor Ben Foster had his own visual dynamic going on with his extremely animated (almost stiff-necked and steely), robot-like conducting style.<\/p>\n
The DVD, recorded live on the two London shows, was filmed in 3D. But the experience isn\u2019t compromised without the 3D effects, as this was shot with no fancy motives. Apart from a couple of contrived 3D moments, this was intended to be a regular concert movie. Although it is a good recount of the two shows, the DVD obviously is no competition to actually being in the audience. It doesn\u2019t capture the depth and magnificence of the show, and for someone who has actually been to one of the shows on this tour, this DVD might pale big time in comparison, or even come across as anemic. However, though the visuals aren\u2019t as compelling, the music still is. In which case, the New Blood<\/i> album might be a better deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":30834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5924],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-42508","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-peter-gabriel","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42508"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42508"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}