I/O The Tour

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i/o The Tour
Tour by Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel, Denver 2023.jpg
Gabriel in Denver Colorado, 2023.
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
Start date18 May 2023
End date21 October 2023
Legs2
No. of shows47
Peter Gabriel concert chronology
  • Rock Paper Scissors Tour
    (2016)
  • i/o The Tour
    (2023)

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.

Contents

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. [1] Another song, "So Much", debuted on May 30 in Copenhagen at the Royal Arena. [2] "Love Can Heal", which was first played during the Rock Paper Scissors Tour, later appeared on i/o along with the ten aforementioned songs. [3] [4] At certain performances, "What Lies Ahead" was also performed, having debuted during Gabriel's Back to Front Tour in 2014, although the song ultimately did not appear on i/o. [2] [5] The remaining songs in the set list comprised material from Gabriel's previous albums, including five tracks from So . [6]

Staging

Robert Lepage, who previously worked with Gabriel as the stage director for the Secret World Tour in 1993–1994 and the Growing Up Tour in 2003–2004, assisted with the creative direction of i/o The Tour. When determining appropriate set pieces, Lepage and Gabriel sought to incorporate a visual representation of the moon into the performance to reflect the latter's decision to release one song from the i/o album every full moon. They expanded on this imagery by creating other planets and celestial objects to augment the stage design. [7]

When assembling his touring band, Gabriel enlisted the help of Tony Levin, David Rhodes, Manu Katché, and Richard Evans, all of whom had previously performed live with Gabriel. Brian Eno introduced Gabriel was introduced to Don-E, who joined the touring band after playing synth bass on the studio recording of "Road to Joy". Josh Shpak became a member of the touring band after one of Gabriel's engineers, Oli Jacobs, was visiting a flatmate and overheard Shpak playing the trumpet. Gabriel also recruited Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Marina Moore to contribute strings and vocals. [8]

With the exception of Gabriel, who used a wireless DPA 4288 headset microphone, the touring members were equipped with Shure 98H/C headset microphones during the acoustic portion of the set. For the remainder of the show, the band switched over to Audix OM6 vocal mics. Britannia Row Productions supplied the concert sound system for both legs of the tour. [9] Rhodes used a Gibson Robot Guitar, a Gibson Goldtop, a James Trussart Tele, a Steinberger 12, and a semi-acoustic Gibson as his primary guitars. He also played a Blade Guitar on "Red Rain". [10]

Synopsis

The tour was split into two sets with no opening act. Gabriel began each performance by lighting a campfire situated at the front of the stage. Starting with Tony Levin, members of Gabriel's touring band joined him in a semicircle around the campfire behind a projection of the moon to play either "Washing of the Water" or "Here Comes the Flood" depending on the performance. [2] [6] This configuration continued for the next song, "Growing Up", after which the band dispersed throughout the stage to play the remainder of the first set. The stage was augmented by LED screens displaying artwork that Gabriel selected to represent each song. [6] [11] Gabriel then performed three songs from i/o, including "Panopticom", "Four Kinds of Horses", and "i/o" and prefaced them with explanations of their origins. [6] These songs were followed by "Digging in the Dirt", which showcased trumpet playing from Josh Shpak. After a series of additional songs from Gabriel's i/o album, the first set concluded with "Sledgehammer", where Gabriel pretended to strike his head with clenched fists imitating sledgehammers and danced in tandem with Levin and Rhodes. [12] [13]

Darkness served as the opener of the second set, where Gabriel performed behind a transparent scrim, sometimes with only his silhouette visible. Gabriel continued to position himself behind the scrim for "Love Can Heal", where a painting by Antony Micallef was also displayed. "Road to Joy" followed, which featured artwork by Ai Weiwei. Three songs from So were also played during the latter portion of the set starting with "Don't Give Up", with Ayanna Witter-Johnson covering Kate Bush's vocals. "Solsbury Hill" served as the set closer and was one of the few songs from Gabriel's first four albums included in the setlist. [6] With the exception of certain performances at the end of the North American leg, where "The Tower That Ate People" was played as the first encore, [2] "In Your Eyes" fulfilled that role instead. The final encore for every show was "Biko". During the song's outro, the band exited the stage one by one until only Manu Katché remained. [6]

Set list

This set list is representative of the performance on 25 June 2023. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour. [14]

During tour stops in Germany and Switzerland, Gabriel replaced "Washing of the Water" with "Jetzt Kommt Die Flut", a German rendition of "Here Comes the Flood". He also occasionally performed the song in English during the North American leg of the tour. Gabriel played "What Lies Ahead" during the first three tour stops, but the song was dropped from the setlist until his performance in Denver on 16 October 2023; he continued to perform it for the remainder of the tour with the exception of his Dallas show on 19 October 2023. "So Much" was played five times during the tour, with the first occurring on May 30 in Copenhagen. The song did not reappear in the set until his performance on 16 October 2023 in Denver, after which he played it for all remaining shows of the tour. Gabriel played "The Tower That Ate People" on September 25 during his Columbus performance, where it appeared as the penultimate song of the first set. The song resurfaced again on October 14 and was repositioned as the first encore. [2]

Musicians

Tour dates

List of 2023 concerts [17] [18]
DateCityCountryVenue
18 May 2023 Kraków Poland Tauron Arena
20 May 2023 Verona Italy Verona Arena
21 May 2023 Milan Mediolanum Forum
23 May 2023 Paris France Accor Arena
24 May 2023 Lille Decathlon Arena – Stade Pierre-Mauroy
26 May 2023 Berlin Germany Waldbühne
28 May 2023 Munich Königsplatz
30 May 2023 Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena
31 May 2023 Stockholm Sweden Avicii Arena
2 June 2023 Bergen Norway Koengen
5 June 2023 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome
6 June 2023 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis
8 June 2023 Zurich Switzerland Hallenstadion
10 June 2023 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena
12 June 2023 Hamburg Barclays Arena
13 June 2023 Frankfurt Festhalle Frankfurt
15 June 2023 Bordeaux France Arkéa Arena
17 June 2023 Birmingham England Utilita Arena
19 June 2023 London The O2 Arena
22 June 2023 Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro
23 June 2023 Manchester England AO Arena
25 June 2023 Dublin Ireland 3Arena
8 September 2023 Quebec City Canada Videotron Centre
9 September 2023 Ottawa Canadian Tire Centre
11 September 2023 Toronto Scotiabank Arena
13 September 2023 Montreal Bell Centre
14 September 2023 Boston United States TD Garden
16 September 2023 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
18 September 2023 New York City Madison Square Garden
20 September 2023 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena
22 September 2023 Buffalo KeyBank Center
23 September 2023 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena
25 September 2023 Columbus Nationwide Arena
27 September 2023 Cleveland Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
29 September 2023 Detroit Little Caesars Arena
30 September 2023 Chicago United Center
2 October 2023 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum
3 October 2023 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center
7 October 2023 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena
8 October 2023 Seattle United States Climate Pledge Arena
11 October 2023 San Francisco Chase Center
13 October 2023 Los Angeles Kia Forum
14 October 2023 Palm Springs Acrisure Arena
16 October 2023 Denver Ball Arena
18 October 2023 Austin Moody Center
19 October 2023 Dallas American Airlines Center
21 October 2023 Houston Toyota Center

Canceled show

DateCityCountryVenueReason for cancellation
20 June 2023 Nottingham EnglandMotorpoint ArenaLogistical problems [19]

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