It was a simple idea; to create a festival out of all the brilliant music and art made all over the world, stuff made outside of the mainstream - music that wasn't getting on the radio and was even harder to find in record stores_ _ the very first WOMAD Festival took place at the 240-acre Bath and West Showground, Somerset over the weekend of 16-18 July, 1982. With the dream 'not to sprinkle world music around a rock festival, but to prove that these great artists could be headliners in their own right', the three days and five stages played host to 60 bands from over 20 countries; a line-up that included The Drummers of Burundi, Pigbag, Salsa de Hoy, Simple Minds, Musicians of the Nile, Echo and the Bunnymen, Prince Nico Mbarga, Rip, Rig and Panic, The Beat and many more_ On-stage, Peter is joined by David Rhodes (guitar), John Giblin (bass), Larry Fast (synthesisers). Jerry Marotta (drums), Peter Hammill (guitar, vocals) and "the wonderful Bristol-based drum and dance group," Ekomé (drums, percussion). Peter Gabriel's Live a WOMAD 1982 takes us back to not only the birth of a festival - one that has now hosted more than 160 editions in 27 countries - but also to the premiere of an album with songs, like The Rhythm of the Heat, San Jacinto and Shock the Monkey, that have become central to the Gabriel canon. More than just a live album, Live at WOMAD 1982 is a pivotal moment, available now on CD and LP for the very first time.