Peter Gabriel : Children in Need, Cyfarthfa Castle Park, Merthyr Tydfil, WALES UK 2003

Peter Gabriel - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: Children in Need, Cyfarthfa Castle Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Britain, 11-21-2003

Paul says: Here's another Peter Gabriel BBC concert, as part of my attempt to respond to the BBC poll I did a few months back. It's a relatively short concert from 2003.

This is a short concert because it was part of a benefit concert, with a bunch of different musical acts having short sets, including the Pretenders and Bryn Terfel. But Gabriel was the headliner so at least he got the longest set. It took place in Wales, and the entire thing was broadcast on BBC Wales.

The sound quality is generally excellent, despite this being unreleased. However, there were a couple of problems. It seems the levels weren't properly set for the first song, "Games without Frontiers," so the vocals were too low. I largely fixed that with the UVR5 program. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. Also, there was a lot of annoying BBC DJ talk before and after the concert, plus during one of the encores. I got rid of all that.

Even though this concert took place in 2003, from the song list it almost could have taken place in 1987. Only two of the songs were more recent: "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" and "Secret World." 

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 Games without Frontiers [Edit] 
02 talk 
03 Burn You Up, Burn You Down 
04 talk
05 Mercy Street
06 Solsbury Hill
07 Sledgehammer 
08 talk
09 In Your Eyes
10 Secret World

PETER GABRIEL : Charity Concert (UK Television 2003)