2LP // Printed Inner Bags. The album has been Half-Speed Remastered and cut to lacquers at 33RPM, across 2x heavyweight LPs, to deliver maximum dynamic range in the sound. Vinyl cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis and overseen by Peter’s main sound engineer Richard Chappell. The album also looks amazing with a wide-spine single sleeve and full colour printed inner bags that are faithful to the original LP design. Plays Live was compiled from live recordings made at four venues across the American Midwest in late 1982. It is effectively a sign-off to the first phase of Peter Gabriel the solo artist. As such, it’s a celebration of all that was achieved on that opening quartet of self-titled long-players, while also standing as confirmation that Peter was an engaged and engaging frontman. At the time, all bar one of the tracks would be familiar to the Gabriel completist, the exception being the previously unreleased I Go Swimming. A studio vocal version of the song has still never been released.

Side A
The Rhythm Of the Heat
I Have the Touch
Not One of Us
Family Snapshot

Side B
D.I.Y.
The Family and the Fishing Net
Intruder
I Go Swimming

Side C
San Jacinto
Solsbury Hill
No Self Control
I Don’t Remember

Side D
Shock the Monkey
Humdrum
On the Air
Biko