There is a great picture at petergabriel.com of the party’s fireworks, and a link to BBC1’s site that has two excerpts from the concert that day, Daby Toure and Adrian Sherwood – Live at Real World 20th celebrations.

Catch Up With news of the Real World party

BBC’s Radio One dropped in to Real World to enjoy the party on 28 June. You can catch up with music and interviews captured on the day by listening again at the ‘One World’ website………..

Thanks Staciedee for the heads up!!

From Peter Gabriel News – the Big PARTY!

Real World Celebrates in Style!

Everyone on site at Real World had their fingers crossed on the morning of Wednesday 28 June and were looking skyward for signs of ominous black clouds! We were all hoping that it wasn’t going rain! This was the day of the Real World Summer Party – our biggest celebration in the last 7 years- and we were relying on the sunshine to make it a perfect day.

The big event was to celebrate 20 Years of Real World Studios, its investment in a future of recording and the unique relationship with Real World Records. The refit and relaunch of two of the main studios – the famous Big Control Room and smaller Production Room – were the motivation to crack open a bottle of wine. It then seemed a good idea to invite a number of Real World artists to the studio and put on a concert in the grounds of the studio.

During the afternoon the invited media took part in a press conference where Peter Gabriel talked about the illustrious history of the studio, played some tasters of forthcoming music to be released on the label and introduced a number of musicians and producers.

Following a wonderful barbeque from resident Real World chief Geraldine, lashings of Pimms, fine wines, delicious deserts and west country cheeses the invited audience of friends and business associates enjoyed an evening of music.

Adrian Sherwood opened proceedings with a mellow ‘dub lite’ DJ set followed by new comer singer song writer Charlie Winston. Chinese flutist Guo Yue provided a magical moment of solo performance followed by the wonderful Daby Touré who got the crowd in party mood. Sevara Nazarkhan, the beautiful Uzbek diva, was outstanding. LIttle Axe brought the house down (even though we were all outside on the lawn) with a fantastic set of 21st century blues featuring the legendary Skip Mcdonald, Keith Le Blanc, Doug Wimbish and original Tackhead vocalist Bernard Fowler. Quite unexpectedly the band were joined on stage by Robert Plant (who was unable to resist the temptation to get up there with like-minded musicians!) followed by Peter and Sevara. What a finale! The whole evening was brought to a fabulous conclusion with a specially designed firework display – the scale of which has never been seen before in the skies above the village of Box!

And we didn’t even have a light shower…..

There was another article about this party in FinancialTimes.com. Wotta Party! However, this reporter never received her press pass. Must have got lost in the mail….

Last week, the Real World studios in Box in rural Wiltshire were playing host in a similar way, throwing a party to celebrate 20 years of working, and showcasing some of the artists at work making recordings for the Real World label. A tent on the lawn served as stage for performances and around the mill complex, work was going on. Visitors wandered about, peeking into studios and feeding the ducks.

Sevara Nazarkhan was putting the finishing touches to her second album for the label, moving away from traditional songs towards an Uzbek trip-hop somewhere between Goldfrapp and Björk. She was singing her own backing vocals while her producer, Bruno Ellingham, diligently pasted them into his working mixes. “She’ll come in with 10 different ideas,” he said admiringly, as Nazarkhan swayed and hummed in a cupboard-sized studio on the other side of the glass, “and she’ll sing each of them with perfect pitch, perfect tuning.”

Guo Yue, who plays the bamboo flute, is an old hand at Real World. He has returned to the label for his new album, Music, Food and Love, whose accompanying book serves up recipes. “I have heard Yue’s music,” announced Peter Gabriel when introducing him, “I’ve eaten his food . . . and the rest I leave to your imagination.” Guo’s was the most traditional music on offer, flute solos that pulsated in the air, knocking against the eardrums.

Peter Gabriel presented a talk about Witness at the annual TED Conference earlier this year. TED has announced that the best talks given at the conference will be available for download.

Podcasting Innovation: TED and BMW Team Up to Share the Power of Ideas With a Global Audience

NEW YORK and WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., June 27 /PRNewswire/ — Once a year,
1000 people are invited to the TED Conference in Monterey, California, to
exchange something of incalculable value: their ideas. What happens there
has never been shared until now. TED and BMW today announced they will team
up to provide a ground-breaking, free video and audio podcast series of the
best talks delivered at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
Conference. Starting today, the public can download the talks – which will
feature Al Gore, Bono, and more than 30 other distinguished speakers in a
format specifically edited for a wide range of media at
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks or at http://www.bmwusa.com/TED.

 
Additional talks will be released weekly and will feature rock star
Peter Gabriel on his work with human-rights group Witness, evolutionary
anthropologist Helen Fisher exploring the future of love, X-Prize founder
Peter Diamandis making the case for space tourism, "Ashes and Snow"
photographer Gregory Colbert unveiling the idea of an Animal Copyright
Foundation, Seattle Library architect Joshua Prince-Ramus explaining how
great architecture is made, actress Julia Sweeney performing an excerpt
from her play, "Letting Go of God," 28-year-old blogging entrepreneur Mena
Trott on the personal side of blogging, and Tipping Point author Malcolm
Gladwell on what we can all learn from spaghetti sauce.

From PeterGabriel.com, a competition!

We’re pleased to announce the first Real World Remixed competition in association with Peter Gabriel, who’s given us Shock The Monkey to remix and Solid State Logic, who are donating a great prize.

Check out the great mixes of The Afro Celt Soundsystem, Los De Abajo And Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali/Temple Of Sound already posted on the site along with more details on the competition.

More details at RealWorldRemixed!