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Playing For Time (song)
"Playing for Time" is a song by English musician Peter Gabriel, released in March 2023 as the third single in promotion of his tenth studio album '' I/O''. This is his first album of original material since 2002's '' Up''. Two versions of the song have been released: the "Bright Side Mix" (mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent) and the "Dark Side Mix" (mixed by Tchad Blake). The cover art for this track features Annette Messager's ''Mes voeux (avec nos cheveux)''. Recorded at Gabriel's Real World Studios in Wiltshire and the Beehive and British Grove Studios in London, "Playing For Time" features regulars Tony Levin on bass and Manu Katché on drums. The single was released on March 7 and the full moon, called the Worm Moon. Development In its unfinished form, "Playing for Time" was performed on Back to Front Tour from 2012 to 2014, opening almost all shows. Gabriel first performed the song on 7 September 2012 in Quebec during rehearsals for the Back to Front Tour. At that time, these pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career with " Solsbury Hill" as his first single. After releasing four successful studio albums, all titled ''Peter Gabriel'', his fifth studio album, '' So'' (1986), became his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. The album's most successful single, " Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards. A 2011 ''Time'' report said "Sledgehammer" was the most played music video of all time on MTV. A supporter of world music for much of his career, Gabriel co-founded the World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) festival in 1982, and has continued to produce and promote world music through his Real World Records label. He has pioneered digital distribution met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Levin
Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (1981–2021) and Peter Gabriel (since 1977). He is also a member of Liquid Tension Experiment (1997–1999, 2008–2009, 2020–present), Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (1998–2000) and HoBoLeMa (2008–2010). He has led his own band, Stick Men, since 2010. A prolific session musician since the 1970s, Levin has played on over 500 albums. Some notable sessions include work with John Lennon, Herbie Mann, Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, Robbie Robertson, Eumir Deodato, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Joan Armatrading, Tom Waits, Buddy Rich, The Roches, Todd Rundgren, Seal, Warren Zevon, Bryan Ferry, Laurie Anderson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Gibonni, Chuck Mangione and Jean-Pierre Ferland. He has toured wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Petridis
Alexis Petridis (born 13 September 1971) is an English journalist. He is the head Rock music, rock and pop music critic for ''The Guardian'', and a regular contributor for ''GQ''. In addition to his music journalism for the paper, he has written a weekly column in the fashion section of ''The Guardian'' Weekend section, as well as contributing to its ''Lost in Showbiz'' column. Petridis was born to a family of Greek descent in City of Sunderland, Sunderland in the north of England, but grew up in Silsden, near Keighley in Yorkshire. The family later moved to Buckinghamshire. After studying at Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, he began his writing career at the University of Cambridge by contributing to the student newspaper ''Varsity (Cambridge), Varsity''. He was the final editor of the now defunct music magazine ''Select (magazine), Select''. He was also the ghostwriter of Elton John's 2019 autobiography Me (book), ''Me''. Petridis has won the "Record Reviews Writer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Now Foundation
The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is an American non-profit organization based in San Francisco that seeks to start and promote a long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote "slower/better" thinking. The Long Now Foundation hopes to "creatively foster responsibility" in the framework of the next 10,000 years. In a manner somewhat similar to the Holocene calendar, the foundation uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem (e.g., by writing the current year "0" rather than ""). The organization's logo is , a capital X with an overline, a representation of 10,000 in Roman numerals. Projects The foundation has several ongoing projects, including a 10,000-year clock known as the ''Clock of the Long Now'', the ''Rosetta Project'', the ''Long Bet Project'', the open source ''Timeline Tool'' (also known as Longviewer), the ''Long Server'' and a monthly seminar series. Clock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pig In The City
''Babe: Pig in the City'' is a 1998 comedy-drama adventure film and the sequel to ''Babe'' (1995). It is co-written, produced and directed by George Miller, who co-wrote and produced the original film. Magda Szubanski and James Cromwell reprise their roles from the first film, with Mickey Rooney joining the cast. The film was nominated for Best Original Song at the 71st Academy Awards. On initial release, the film received mixed reviews from critics and failed to match the financial success of its predecessor, grossing $69.1 million on a $90 million budget. However, it has developed a cult following and a positive critical reassessment since its release. Plot A few weeks after the events of the first film, Farmer Arthur Hoggett is injured in an accident when he and Babe attempt to fix the farm's well, leaving his wife Esme to tend their farm alone. Threatened with eviction at the end of the month unless their mortgage is paid, Esme takes Babe to a sheepdog herding contest in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Shearmur
Edward Shearmur (also known as Ed Shearmur; born 28 February 1966) is a British film composer. Born in London, England, at age seven he sang in the boys' choir at Westminster Cathedral. Educated at Eton College, he studied at the Royal College of Music and went on to a scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He worked as orchestration and conducting assistant to Michael Kamen on such films as ''Licence to Kill'', ''Die Hard'', ''Lethal Weapon'' and the acclaimed ''Don Juan DeMarco'') before scoring his first full-length feature film '' The Cement Garden'' which won the director's prize at the Berlin Film Festival. His first major feature score was that of ''The Wings of the Dove'' (1997). He has since scored a diverse range of popular films, including both ''Charlie's Angels'' outings, '' Cruel Intentions'', '' Species II'', and '' K-PAX''. In 2023 he composed the soundtrack for the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's last novel ''Across the River and into the Trees''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rhodes (guitarist)
David John Sydney Rhodes (born 2 May 1956) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter and long-time collaborator of Peter Gabriel. He was the guitarist and vocalist for the British rock band Random Hold from 1976 to 1980, and has been the principal studio and touring guitarist for Gabriel since 1980. Rhodes has released two solo albums. Biography David Rhodes was born on 2 May 1956 in London. He studied Art at Central Saint Martins and then went on to complete a degree in Sculpture at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he developed an interest in music. Shortly after graduation, he began recording and was a founding member of the rock band Random Hold, in which he performed vocals and lead guitar. He was soon asked to play with Peter Gabriel. His first appearance was on 1980's ''Peter Gabriel'' (also referred to as ''Melt''), Gabriel's third studio album. Rhodes has been the principal studio and touring guitarist for Gabriel since then. In 2009, he released his first s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromatic Scale
The chromatic scale (or twelve-tone scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone. Chromatic instruments, such as the piano, are made to produce the chromatic scale, while other instruments capable of continuously variable pitch, such as the trombone and violin, can also produce microtones, or notes between those available on a piano. Most music uses subsets of the chromatic scale such as diatonic scales. While the chromatic scale is fundamental in western music theory, it is seldom directly used in its entirety in musical compositions or improvisation. Definition The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone, also known as a half-step, above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament (the most common tuning in Western music), the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. Thus, there is only one chromatic scal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digging In The Dirt
"Digging in the Dirt" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel. It was released as the first single taken from his sixth studio album, '' Us'', on 7 September 1992. The song was a minor hit on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, peaking at number 52, but it topped both the ''Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts. The song was moderately successful on the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at number 24, and it reached the top 10 in Canada, Portugal, and Sweden. Background "Digging in the Dirt" began with some percussion tracks played by Hossam Ramzy that originated from "Zaar", a song on Gabriel's '' Passion'' album. Ramzy's surdo and duf tracks were then combined with a rhythm pattern from an Akai MPC60 and a synth bass played on a Roland D-50. Gabriel then ad-libbed some vocal parts, first coming up with the "shut your mouth" lyric, which was one of the song's working titles. At other points of its development, the song was also temporarily known as "Plo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I/O The Tour
''i/o the Tour'' was a concert tour in 2023 by Peter Gabriel to promote his i/o album, which was released at the end of the year after the conclusion of the tour. It was Gabriel's first tour since his joint-performance with Sting on the Rock Paper Scissors Tour in 2016 and his first solo tour since the Back to Front Tour in 2014. The set list contained material from Gabriel's then unreleased i/o album, including " Panopticom", " The Court", " Playing for Time", " i/o", and " Four Kinds of Horses", which had been released as singles prior to the start of the tour. These songs, along with " Road to Joy", "Olive Tree", "This Is Home", " And Still", and " Live and Let Live" premiered at the Tauron Arena in Poland. Another song, " So Much", debuted on May 30 in Copenhagen at the Royal Arena. " Love Can Heal", which was first played during the Rock Paper Scissors Tour, later appeared on i/o along with the ten aforementioned songs. At certain performances, "What Lies Ahead" was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live In London
''Live in London'' may refer to: *''Live in London'', an album by Amon Düül II, 1973 *'' I Told You I Was Trouble: Live in London'', a video (2007) and album (2015) by Amy Winehouse * ''Live in London'' (Andraé Crouch album), 1978 * ''Live in London'' (April Wine video), 1981 *'' Live in London: Babymetal World Tour 2014'', a video album, 2015 * ''Live in London'' (Beach Boys album), 1970 *''Live in London'', an album by the Berzerker, 2010 * ''Live in London'' (Brand New Heavies album), 2009 *''Live in London'', an EP by Bridgit Mendler, 2013 * ''Live in London'' (Christone Ingram album), 2023 * ''Live in London'' (Deep Purple album), 1982 *''Live in London'', an album by the Dickies, 2002 *''Live in London 1980'', an album by the Fall, 1982 * ''Live in London'' (Flight of the Conchords album), 2018 * ''Live in London'' (The Gaslight Anthem video), 2013 * ''Live in London'' (Gene Harris album), 2008 * ''Live in London'' (George Michael video), 2009 *'' Ride a White Horse: Live in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The O2 Arena
The O2 Arena, commonly known as The O2, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the centre of The O2 entertainment district on the Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London, England. It opened in its present form in 2007. It has the third-highest seating capacity of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom, behind Co-op Live and Manchester Arena, and in 2008 was the world's busiest music arena. As of 2022, it is the List of largest buildings#Largest usable volume, ninth-largest building in the world by volume with a diameter of 365 metres (399 yards) and a height of 52 metres (57 yards). The arena was built under the Millennium Dome (renamed The O2), a large dome-shaped building built to house an exhibition celebrating the turn of the third millennium; as the structure still stands over the arena, ''The Dome'' remains a name in common usage for the venue. The arena, as well as the overall complex, is named after its primary sponsor, the telecommunications company O2 (UK), O2, a subsidiar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
