David Gilmour just released a new album, Luck and Strange, and he’s about to kick off his first tour since 2016 —as for any other future career plans, he’s taking it day by day. Might this be his final tour? “Well, it could be, obviously,” he tells Andy Greene in …
Read More »Ice-T and David Gilmour Recorded a New Version of Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb'
Over the past few years, David Gilmour and Roger Waters have beefed about everything from control of the Pink Floyd Facebook page to the war in Ukraine. They communicate primarily through lawyers and extremely caustic Tweets. But they finally found something they could agree on when Ice-T approached them this …
Read More »Watch David Gilmour Play 'Wish You Were Here' at a UK Bar's Open Mic Night
David Gilmour isn’t kicking off his Luck and Strange world tour for another 17 days, but a handful of people at the Neptune Live Music Bar’s open-mic night in East Sussex, England, caught a little sneak preview when he joined his daughter Romany to perform an acoustic rendition of “Wish …
Read More »David Gilmour's 'Luck and Strange' Is a Sometimes Beautiful, Sometimes Chilly Dark Night of the Soul
The most intriguing song on Luck and Strange, David Gilmour‘s first solo album in nearly a decade, is a dark-mirror reflection of his own artistry: a rendition of the Montgolfier Brothers’ sardonic 1999 dream-pop song “Between Two Points,” sung by his daughter, Romany. The original song was a slow-building echo …
Read More »David Gilmour on His New LP 'Luck and Strange,' and Plans for Upcoming Tour
I n January 2007, a few months after the conclusion of the On an Island tour, David Gilmour and members of his road band, including Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, convened in a drafty barn on his U.K. property to try out some new song ideas. “I hadn’t thought this …
Read More »David Gilmour Taps His Daughter Romany for 'Between Two Points'
David Gilmour has revealed another taste of his upcoming solo album: a cover of the Montgolfier Brothers’ “Between Two Points,” featuring his daughter, Romany. On the track, Romany takes the ruminating vocals over a mournful harp, while Gilmour later delivers a guitar solo. The Montgolfier Brothers — a British duo …
Read More »Meet the Drummer Who Spent Decades With David Gilmour and David Crosby — And a Day With Bowie
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »David Gilmour Sets First U.S. Tour Dates in Eight Years
With a new solo album coming this fall, David Gilmour will return to the United States for a handful of shows for the first time in eight years. The artist, who is releasing Luck and Strange on Sept. 6, will perform at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome on Oct. 25, the …
Read More »David Gilmour's Final 'Comfortably Numb'? Watch the Pink Floyd Icon Play 'The Wall' Classic in 2016
David Gilmour announced the first dates of his Luck and Strange tour last week, but he told Uncut that it’s going to be a very different tour from his previous ones because of an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies.” He went on to explain that he …
Read More »David Gilmour Is Touring. Just Don't Ask for Pink Floyd Classics
David Gilmour is planning to promote his upcoming solo album, Luck and Strange, with a rare tour. Just don’t show up expecting to hear Pink Floyd hits like “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” or “Money.” In a new interview with Uncut, Gilmour said he has an “unwillingness to revisit …
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