David Gilmour: “I’m planning to make another album”
David Gilmour scheduled a new studio album. In an interview granted to “Record Collector” and taken up by the fan Floydiani.it website, the guitarist and voice of the Pink Floyd anticipates that, perhaps, this time it will not have to wait almost 10 years between one album and the other: “I am planning to make another album”, he says at the end of the interview after commenting historic concerts of his solo career and with the band. “And I hope that, within a rather short period of time from now, I will be immersed in work and will become obsessive as always happens when I do something like that”.
The occasion of the interview is the release of “The Luck and Strange Concerts”, double live album, and of the film-concert “Live at the Circus Maximus. Rome”, which document the concerts of last autumn related to the solo album “Luck and Strange”. After two heating dates sold out at the Brighton Center, last year David Gilmour kicked off the Tour at the Circus Maximus of Rome for six evenings: the CONCERTO FILM will arrive in the cinemas from September 17th while exactly a month later, the live album in the 4LP version or 2cd will be available from 17 October (here the details).
Gilmour explains, in the interview: “I love playing in these ancient monuments, such as the Circus Maximus and Pompeii and a dozen other ancient Roman amphitheatres throughout Europe at various periods. There is a particular atmosphere that hovers on the stones, and it is much more pleasant than the large covered sports arenas, without atmosphere. Obviously you do your best to add a little”.
In the interview with “Record Collector”, the artist also retraces the live historical moments of his career, as a soloist and with Pink Floyd, including The famous and controversial Venice concert of 1989transmitted in a worldly: “The pontone on which the stage was mounted was as large as a football field. It had been pulled with tugs from all over Norway to Venice: a nice journey. Since it was a television broadcast, on stage we had to keep an eye on a watch to know when to start and finish each song. If a song lasted too much, I had to shorten the next. Concentrated on the times, and this takes care of you very much. The premises accused us of destroying their city, which, of course, was irritating, but so much. “
In recent decades, Gilmour has always passed many years between one album of unpublished and the other: “David Gilmour” (1978) was followed by “About Face” (1984), then by “On an Island” (2006) and “Rattle That Lock” (2015), up to “Luck and Strange” in 2024. If he maintains the promise to return to the studio shortly, this time the be much shorter than usual.
