David Gilmour Backtracks on Playing Pink Floyd Songs in Concert

David Gilmour made a splash early within the promotional cycle for the upcoming Luck and Unusual when he described it as the most effective album he is made since Pink Floyd’s The Darkish Facet of the Moon. He is backing away from that now, although a basic reticence about these years stays.

“It is a flip assertion, actually,” Gilmour tells Rolling Stone. “I imply, it is not like Darkish Facet the Moon is even my favourite album. I believe I choose Want You Had been Right here. Anyway, it feels to me prefer it’s the most effective factor I’ve performed in kind of my dwelling reminiscence, as a result of a few of these issues really feel like they have been another person, again in these eons in the past. I used to be in my 30s when Roger left our little pop group and I’m 78.”

Luck and Unusual is due on Sept. 6, and was initially superior by “The Piper’s Name” in April. Extra singles and confirmed live performance dates adopted.

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Gilmour hasn’t launched a solo album since 2015’s Prime 5 worldwide hit Rattle That Lock – and hasn’t performed a U.S. live performance in eight years. However Gilmour turned a number of extra heads when he indicated an unwillingness to return to estranged bandmate Roger Waters-era songs throughout these upcoming exhibits.

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Gilmour additionally appears to be extra open now to together with Pink Floyd songs in his solo setlist – although one monitor specifically apparently will not be performed. “I believe I might be doing one or two issues from that point, but it surely simply appears so way back,” Gilmour says. “I do know individuals love them, and I really like taking part in them. I will be doing ‘Want You Had been Right here’ – in fact, I’ll – and a few of the issues that began with me anyway.”

So, perennial favourite “Comfortably Numb” will “fairly seemingly” seem however “I do not suppose I will be doing ‘Cash,'” Gilmour admits earlier than including: “If that is your cause for coming …”

As just lately because the 2000s, Gilmour and Waters appeared to have known as a truce. The classic-era lineup reunited for 2005’s Reside 8 live shows, then Gilmour and Waters made a few extra stay appearances collectively in 2010. Gilmour is not keen to debate what subsequently went mistaken.

“It is boring. It is over,” he argues. “As I stated earlier than, he left our pop group once I was in my 30s, and I am a reasonably previous chap now – and the relevance of it’s not there. I do not actually know his work since. So I haven’t got something to say on the subject.”