ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Nathaniel Barlam

SONG: The Family and the Fishing Net FROM Peter Gabriel 4

Video info

I created this musical comic five years back as a way to exorcise the anxieties of my imminent wedding. Looking at it now, I’m glad to say my marriage has been far happier than the one depicted in my video.

Song info:

The Family and the Fishing Net is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's fourth solo album, released in September 1982.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel and David Lord.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

‘It's basically a wedding song, but it's more an approach from the undercurrents of the wedding ritual. There are quite a lot of situations that we accept as perfectly normal and regular, traditional, that have this element of ritual that makes deep impressions on the psyche. And this is a somewhat impressionistic account of a wedding. I'd also been reading quite a lot of Dylan Thomas at the time, so there is that influence in the lyric writing.’ - pg