Longtime Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour will release his fifth solo studio album, Luck and Strange, on September 6, and will launch a tour in support of the record later that month. In an interview with Uncut magazine published in April 2024, Gilmour admitted that he had “an unwillingness” to perform Pink Floyd’s classic 1970s material at his upcoming shows, but in a new Q&A with Rolling Stone, the 79-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer changed his tune a bit.
“One has to wake up to reality once in a while,” Gilmour explained to Rolling Stone. “I think I will be doing one or two things from that time, but it just seems so long ago. I know people love them, and I love playing them. I’ll be doing ‘Wish You Were Here,’ of course I will. And some of the things that started with me anyway.”
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Asked if he would be performing the Pink Floyd classic “Comfortably Numb,” from the 1979 album The Wall, David said, “Yeah, quite likely.”
He then was asked if he’d be including “Breathe,” “Time,” and “Money,” all songs from The Dark Side of the Moon, in his set.
“I don’t think I’ll be doing ‘Money.’ “If that’s your reason for coming…” Gilmour admitted.
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As for whether he planned to play Luck and Strange in its entirety, David said, “Not in one piece. I haven’t really worked it out yet. We haven’t started rehearsals. I’ve started working on set lists and how I want the show to progress, but it’s not set in stone yet.”
On His New Song That Features the Late Richard Wright
As previously reported, Luck and Strange’s title track incorporates a keyboard part played by late Pink Floyd member Richard Wright that was recorded in January 2007 during a jam in barn owned by Gilmour.
At the time, Gilmour and members of his then-current touring band had gathered to work on some new song ideas.
“I hadn’t thought this all the way through,” David recalled of the session. “It was f—in’ freezing in there. But we spent 15 minutes working on this tiny, little riff I wrote on the guitar. They all joined in one by one.”
That was one of the last times Gilmour played with Wright, who died of lung cancer in 2008. As he was putting together material for Luck and Strange, he remembered the jam with Wright and decided to revisit the recording. With help from his wife and longtime lyricist, Polly Samson, Gilmour fleshed out the tune, which became “Luck and Strange.”
“That song started developing a depth that I’d forgotten about,” David maintained. “The playing on it is unmistakably Richard. He was a true, lovely, creative person, and people like that are hard to find.”
Any Chance for a New Pink Floyd Project?
Gilmour, of course, has long been estranged from his former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters. In 2022, David and the group’s founding drummer, Nick Mason, collaborated on a new song “Hey, Hey, Rise Up!” that was released under the Pink Floyd moniker to raise money in support of Ukraine following the Russian invasion of that country.
Rolling Stone asked Gilmour if he would ever consider reviving Pink Floyd for another one-off project or event.
“It’s a strange old world we live in, and on there are things that crop up in life that you feel you have to do something about, and have to do something about now,” he noted. “And you might as well use what you’ve earned through your life to benefit causes that you believe in. So I never say never.”
Gilmour’s 2024 Tour Plans
Gilmour’s 2024 tour in support of Luck and Strange kicks off with a six-date engagement in Rome that runs from September 27 through October 3. David then will play six shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London, spanning from October 9 to October 15.
After that, Gilmour will head to the U.S. He’ll play an October 25 show at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, followed by October 29, 30, and 31 concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. David’s confirmed 2024 itinerary wraps up with five shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City scheduled from November 4 to November 10.
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