“Good evening, Dallas, it’s been some time,” Peter Gabriel said Thursday, making his first appearance on a North Texas stage in a dozen years. “Talking about time — maybe time is the big boss that has all of us in its claws. Maybe there’s one way to get out of its claws, and that’s imagination.”
At 73, the Grammy-winning Gabriel could very easily assemble a 90-minute set full of hits, tuck in a couple of deep cuts, tour relentlessly and drift off to sleep atop a pile of money high enough to scrape the heavens. Instead, he’s taken what’s considered a more daring approach: make the familiar a reward for indulging in the unknown. The whole of Gabriel’s Thursday night set was over 2.5 hours long but split in two by a 15-minute intermission.
More often than not, Thursday’s showcase evoked a handsomely mounted art installation as much as it did a rock concert in a sports venue. Gabriel was joined onstage by one of the most extraordinary collection of musicians to pass through town thus far this year, many of whom have collaborated with the singer-songwriter for the better part of four decades.
“Panopticom,” a plea for sanity in a world where reality has become fungible — “In the air, the smoke cloud takes its form/All the phones take pictures while it’s warm,” the song begins — was a searing highlight, as was the title track, and the deeply poignant “Playing for Time,” an ode to memory’s pleasures: “Any moment that we bring to life/Will never fade away.”
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