Peter Gabriel: Growing Up Live

Peter Gabriel: Growing Up Live (2003)

Peter Gabriel: Growing Up Live presents the complete 2003 Milan concert from Peter Gabriel's tour based around the album Up, featuring 17 tracks across 134 minutes. Literally central to a memorable show is a revolving stage that sees Gabriel going for a cycle ride in an exuberant "Solsbury Hill," performing "Growing Up" inside a Zorb ball, and delivering a gravity-defying sky walk in "Downside Up" with daughter Melanie. Accompanied by regular sidemen David Rhodes (guitar) and Tony Levin (bass), Gabriel is joined by the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama for the spine-tingling "Sky Blue," throughout mixing recent tracks like the abrasive "Darkness" and "The Barry Williams Show" with established crowd pleasers such as "Red Rain," "In Your Eyes," and "Sledgehammer.

Date of release
2003-11-04
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (13)
Runtime
2h 14m
Genres
Music, Documentary
Director
Hamish Hamilton

Casting

Interesting facts

Growing Up: Live is a concert film by Hamish Hamilton and Peter Gabriel released on 3 November 2003. It features a live performance from Gabriel's 2003 "Growing Up" tour. The concert is notable for its dynamic set design by Robert Lepage. Also of note is the inclusion of Melanie Gabriel, his daughter, for backing vocals during these concerts. Bonus features include Tony Levin's photo album selections and an interview with Peter Gabriel about the story of Growing Up.

Background

Gabriel spent part of 2002–2003 on tour in support of his album Up. The tour, called the "Growing Up" tour, visited 32 cities across North America and Europe. The concert video and live album were taken from the performances over two nights in May 2003 at Milan's Fila Forum, which was filmed by Hamish Hamilton with 26 cameras.

Gabriel described the idea behind the staging of the concert: "Last time [for the Secret World tour] we had two stages, a male stage and a female stage, and they were representing different things, urban, rural and this time we have moved the axis vertically, and it’s a sky stage and an earth stage.

To ensure that Growing Up: Live was released on its intended release date of 3 November 2003, Gabriel was promised by Warner Music Vision that they would only cover its production costs if Gabriel met their deadline. Warner Music Vision said that this release schedule was strictly imposed to ensure that they could coordinate with EMI Records to simultaneously release both Growing Up: Live and Gabriel's Hit compilation album.

In 2019, the film was released as a live album on vinyl and music streaming platforms.

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