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David Gilmour has released an online video for One Of These Days from the new Live at Pompeii collection.
Live at Pompeii will be shown in theaters on September 13th and then released in multiple formats on September 29th.
More information on the upcoming release can be found in our dedicated section by clicking here
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Tonight marks the night of Trafalgar Releasing’s premiere of David Gilmour : Live At Pompeii.
Not many details have surfaced yet but we can confirm that in attendance where the entire Rattle That Lock 2016 Touring band with the exception of Jon Carin (Who is currently on tour with Roger Waters).
Review Of Film from Den Of Geek
There’s a case to be made that David Gilmour is rock’s greatest living guitar player. While he’s settled nicely into the role of dignified, majestic Admiral of melodic space rock, he conjures towering sounds with a fury that would intimidate any guitarist a fraction of his age. “The voice and guitar of Pink Floyd” as he’s often billed may have a little more gravel in it, but he’s still in full command of his powers,and content to let his music speak for itself. His 2016 tour, in support of his 2015 solo album Rattle That Lock, brings fans David Gilmour Live at Pompeii which arrives in theaters for one night only on September 13 before its Blu-ray and home media release on September 29.
Gilmour’s two recent solo tours were deliberate departures from the stadiums and arenas that characterized the latter days of Pink Floyd. Instead, Gilmour chooses “beautiful places that will add to the majesty” of the music. The Rattle That Lock tour featured stops at the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City Music Hall, but the most offbeat and historic of them all was his return to Pompeii, the site of legendary cult film and dorm room/bong hit staple, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii. That 1972 movie saw the band, in the final days before the release of Dark Side of the Moon changed their fortunes forever, playing some of their most atmospheric and experimental compositions to the empty Amphitheatre of Pompeii.
For Gilmour’s two 2016 shows at the same location (the concert film is a combination of both nights), the production values are higher, the tunes more recognizable, and as Gilmour puts it in the film’s intro, it boasts “the first audience there since the gladiators.” Nevertheless, David Gilmour Live at Pompeii is acutely aware of how it must deal with history, and in its best moments it’s a reverent and surprisingly moving concert film.
David Gilmour Live at Pompeii contains only one song from that 1971 performance, and that’s Floyd concert staple “One of These Days.” To be fair, of the 1971 Live at Pompeii setlist, which included extended atonal freakouts like “A Saucerful of Secrets” and “Careful With That Axe, Eugene,” only “One of these Days” and beloved Pink Floyd classic “Echoes” would seem at home with the “modern” Gilmour or Floyd catalogue. “Echoes” was retired from the band’s setlist in the mid 1970s, briefly revived in the early days of their 1987 post-Waters reunion (and quickly dropped), and then was wholly absent from live performance until Gilmour’s 2006 On an Island tour. That song, arguably the blueprint for the recognizable “Pink Floyd sound” of classic rock radio, was notable for the gorgeous, watery harmonies of Gilmour and Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, who died in 2008. With Wright’s passing, Gilmour retired “Echoes” yet again, this time for good.
Gilmour instead pays tribute to Wright in other ways, with the the tour’s only performance of Wright’s instrumental meditation on mortality, “The Great Gig in the Sky” from inescapable Floyd opus, Dark Side of the Moon leading into the haunting, understated piano-driven “A Boat Lies Waiting” from Rattle That Lock. Those are followed by “Wish You Were Here,” traditionally a song about Floyd founder Syd Barrett, but in this context, it’s clearly meant with Wright in mind, as well. “Great Gig in the Sky” in particular benefits from a slightly altered arrangement, with much of it delivered in three-part harmony from the band’s three impressive backup singers, while “A Boat Lies Waiting” which is a lovely track on record, is more powerful live with virtually the entire band harmonizing throughout.
Live at Pompeii only stumbles during its flashiest moments, where the eerie wonder of the venue and the solemn quality of the early setlist gets obscured by attempts to deliver the requisite light show spectacular. Despite what you normally associate with Pink Floyd and David Gilmour shows, at this particular location, less is more. The strobe lights and fireworks that come with greatest hits obligation “Run Like Hell” seem out of place after the quiet beauty and more subdued lighting of “A Boat Lies Waiting” or Rattle That Lock standout “In Any Tongue” (one of Gilmour’s very best post-Floyd efforts). That’s hardly anything to worry about, though, as this is a powerful show that will equally satisfy casual Floyd fans and Gilmour obsessives.
If you missed the Rattle That Lock tour, or simply don’t want to wait another decade before Mr. Gilmour tours again, a night at a movie theater where this can be experienced at maximum volume will be time well-spent.
Review Courtesy Of at Den Of Geek
Prog magazine has announed it is releasing a cover feature and spread to promote David Gilmour : Live At Pompeii.
As David Gilmour: Live At Pompeii reaches cinemas ahead of its release on DVD, CD and vinyl, the Pink Floyd man joins Prog for a chat.
David Gilmour has long been known to conclude a tour with a flourish, be it playing in the middle of the lagoon in front of St Mark’s Square in Venice with Pink Floyd in 1989, or at the historic shipyards of Gdansk in 2006. However, in 2016, he surpassed himself even by his own standards by bringing his show to a place firmly etched in world history, and in the history of Pink Floyd – at the amphitheatre in Pompeii, the site trapped in the pyroclastic flow of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
In 1971, of course, his old group, under the direction of Adrian Maben, shot their legendary Live At Pompeii film, which captured them playing in an amphitheatre, empty, save for the crew and a few local kids. In 2016, it couldn’t have been more different – Gilmour brought his entire touring operation along to perform a spectacular show in front of a paying audience. It was to be a time when ghosts were laid to rest.
Gilmour first had the idea of returning to Pompeii in 2015 as he was touring Europe and then South America.
“I don’t get out on tour very often and I like to create a special occasion for people, so it’s nice to play in beautiful old places that have a special vibe to them,” Gilmour says. “We started at Pula in Croatia in an absolutely spectacular amphitheatre, which is a place I’d never been to before, and we continued that idea all over Europe. In these beautiful places, you know there’s a whole added element of specialness that the building gives to it. Hopefully the audience will remember it forever.”
Playing venues such as this is not without enormous logistical issues. “Luckily I don’t get to hear about most of them,” Gilmour laughs.
Issue Number 80 – September 2017 will be hitting the sheves in the next fortnight we will have more information on online ordering when it becomes available !!
Little Update and new Audio clip from Dave Harris
“Believe me or not, we are nearly there with the release of this album. Its been a long wait hampered by some health problems, and other fun stuff, such as a track, that Richard and I started in 1984, along with all the others. I remember this one very well and so have re-created it for the new version of the Identity album. That is all I will say at the moment as the details will be in the album booklet.. its a short teaser, but I hope you feel the vibe of the song, It means a lot to me…….Dave x”
Sadly the audio clip is no longer available.
Pink Floyd’s 15 Album back catlogue finally become Japan original cardboard sleeve reissues.
They will be separately released on November 1 and 22.Each mini LP faithfully replicates its original UK LP design, and almost of them include an obi faithfully replicating the one with its Japan first pressing edition. *Except for “The Division Bell” and “The Endless River.”
Also, each album features 2011 remastering. *Except for “The Endless River (2014 remastering).”
All albums are available to pre-order online over at CDJapan you can check out there website and subsequent ordering information by clicking here
Roger Waters : Us & Them tour is coming to Australia and New Zealand in early 2018.
For tickets and more information, please visit rogerwaters.com
You can find reviews and pictures and venue information on the current tour over in our dedicate tour rooms by clicking here or by choosing the tour rooms image above this article
NEW ZEALAND
January 24th 2018 – Spark Arena, Auckland
January 30th 2018 – Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin
Tickets For New Zealand Go On General Sale From 12pm Friday September 8th 2017
AUSTRALIA
February 6th 2018 – Brisbane Entertainment Centre
February 10th 2018 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
February 11th 2018 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
February 16th 2018 – Adelaide Entertainment Centre
February 20th 2018 – Perth Arena
Tickets For Australia Are On General Sale From 10am, Friday September 8th September 2017
On Wednesday, 6th September at 2pm Eastern Time (6pm GMT for those in the UK).
David Gilmour will be a guest on NPR Music’s World Cafe discussing his performaces at The Amphitheatre of Pompeii in July 2016 as part of his Rattle That Lock Tour and the upcoming cinematic release of David Gilmour : Live At Pompeii
You can listen live online over at www.XPN.org
David Gilmour gave hints about his next project while talking about his new Live at Pompeii collection.
In a new online trailer for the concert film, the Pink Floyd guitarist reveals he’s got a batch of songs that didn’t make Rattle That Lock, which he was touring behind when the film was shot. He says, “There are several songs that are close to being complete, which didn’t make it onto this album. I can’t see myself doing another tour with making another album first, and that takes me awhile. It took 10 years last time, and I’m really hoping — without making any promises — that it won’t take 10 years this time, that I’ll get back in and start working again. And following that, I’ll be out again.”
Live at Pompeii will be shown in theaters on September 13th and then released in multiple formats on September 29th.
More information on the upcoming release can be found in our dedicated section by clicking here
The V&A’s blockbuster Pink Floyd show is one of the museum’s most popular exhibitions ever, with around 10,000 visitors a week passing through the doors.
The show, Their Mortal Remains, has attracted 300,000 people already and its run
has now been extended by a fortnight to October 15th
It is likely to be even more popular than the 2013 David Bowie show, which was seen by 312,000 visitors in London before it embarked on a world tour.
Their Mortal Remains is also likely to go abroad.
It follows the career of the band, whose hit albums include The Wall and The Dark Side of the Moon, from playing dingy London clubs to selling out stadiums around the world.
Pink Floyd have sold more than 250 million records since their 1967 debut, despite line-up changes which saw original frontman Syd Barrett, who died in 2006, fall victim to drug addiction and keyboard player Rick Wright and songwriter Roger Waters walk out at different times, before drummer and guitarist Nick Mason and David Gilmour called it a day.
Its surviving members have all given the show their blessing and went through their personal archives to provide exhibits including guitars, costumes and handwritten lyrics.
One of the band’s psychedelic lightshows is recreated on-site and the museum has installed a version of The Wall’s stage set complete with a giant inflatable schoolteacher.
The V&A’s Victoria Broackes, who helped curate the show, said it had been “a massive collaboration” with the band. She added: “That combination of authentic staging, amazing sound, rock ’n’ roll spectacle and the V&A has really shone through in the success of the exhibition, and the popularity with not just fans but with a diverse audience of all ages.”
A 2015 retrospective of the work of fashion designer Alexander McQueen is the V&A’s most popular show yet, selling 480,000 tickets and forcing bosses to open through the night.
Tickets are available online by clicking here
The new issue of the UK’s Mojo Magazine (cover date October 2017, issue number 287) includes – apart from some major coverage of David Grohl – an extensive Live at Pompeii feature with contributions by David Gilmour and Guy Pratt.
“In the october edition of Mojo magazine Last year David Gilmour returned to Pompeii – previously the scene of Pink Floyd’s 1971 cinematic tour de force. As his performance of that show nears release, the man himself presents a selection of shots, captioning them exclusively in this edition of MOJO, while his fellow band member Guy Pratt re-lives the entire adventure.”
“We were looking around and making suggestions for new places to play in the summeer of 2015 we had done a number of lovely venues, some of which were beautiful Roman ampitheatres. Someone said, ‘Hey, why don’t we try for Pompeii again’ We doubted that they’d allow it, but we thought we’d give it a go”
The magazine is in UK stores now, and will be available in selected locations worldwide as an import, in due course. Alternatively, you can buy it online through this link.