Peter Gabriel talks about his orchestral show "New Blood"

Peter Gabriel does with his New Blood Program in the Olympic Hall in Munich maintenance

Peter Gabriel Interview - Photo: Real World Records EMI York Tillyer
Peter Gabriel, a founding member of the British rock band Genesis, will be on 02.05.2012 Olympiahalle in Munich to present his guest and elaborate orchestral show "New Blood". Advance he was in a lengthy interview (provided by the Promoters Group Munich) to answer questions. We want you to blog from Munich withheld not the most interesting statements from Peter Gabriel, of course:

"Many people were probably very skeptical about the orchestration: Ah yes, there is again an artist older and booked an orchestra to jazz up its program to - no thanks! And I know that sounds like this: Now we move on to the cabaret and hope to have met with some veterans' respect - or whatever you want to call it. But that was exactly the reason why we are entitled to the whole 'New Blood' - have been - 'Fresh Blood'. Because we wanted to say: No, that is precisely not the way we wrestled around on the matter, the things we are trying to really get to the bottom and try and see if we can not accomplish anything new.

Perhaps we have reached this target is not always, but I think there are places on the disk, where you hear something that there was so never heard. And that of course is what is always the most exciting thing for me.

John Metcalfe, I've met in different ways. He was not afraid to be daring. And I wanted to take a bold album. We have thrown out the complete Rock Band. Most people who devote themselves to keep the orchestra and band take their projects to the Orchestra only. But we have taken out the guitars, we have taken out the electric bass, we have taken out the entire drum kit, and thus we were much more committed to use the entire color palette of the orchestra really.

When John [Metcalf] and I first met, we have a few names thrown around. And when we as a track like "Intruder" were reached, was also the name of Hitchcock, because it provided a specific reference. Has put together because I think some songs have been implemented almost cinematically, and Bernard Herrmann, Hitchcock's great composer and arranger was definitely an influence on the way John [Metcalfe] the arrangements for "Intruder". I initially had the songs, which are often cited as big hits aside and I focused more on the songs that tell a story or with textures and moods, work from which I had the feeling that they have the right raw material to make it react with an orchestra.