David Gilmour is reportedly planning to tour in support of his forthcoming album, Luck and Strange, which will be out on September 6th.
He mentions it in Uncut magazine, and a note on his UK webstore says that those who pre-order the album will “get early access to future UK live dates.”
In the interview, Gilmour says rehearsals need to be scheduled and a set list put together, but he adds that he has a system for choosing songs.
Using asterisks, he says three next to a song means they'll make the list. Two stands for "likely", and one means there's an outside chance. And all the new songs get three.
And as for doing Pink Floyd songs, he says he's more open to doing ones from the '60s, '80s and '90s as opposed to those from the '70s.
The one from the '60s will be "Astronomy," which he says is "always entertaining and fun and gets people off to a happy start. There’s songs from the Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell albums. I mean, I think ‘High Hopes’ is as good as anything we ever did at any time.”
As for his band, he says, "I changed the band around last time for a number of reasons, one of which was it was all too robotic, and some people would have been better off in a Pink Floyd tribute band.
“So I thought we’d get people who are genuinely creative and give them a little more space. That’s the plan. So we're going to have some of the younger guys alongside [bassist] Guy Pratt and the Webb Sisters, who sang with Leonard Cohen on his last tours.”
Gilmour's last tour was in 2016 in support of his last album, 2015's Rattle That Lock.
Speaking of David Glimour.......David didn;t care for The Beatles' 'Get Back' Documentary:
The Beatles' 2021 documentary Get Back was widely applauded, but one notable viewer didn't like it -- Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.
He tells Uncut magazine it was a "hard watch... Paul [McCartney was] being domineering, and John [Lennon] ducking back because of the moment he was in at the time, and George [Harrison] leaving and coming back.
“Horrible, really. I mean it’s lovely for us to watch, but I’m surprised Paul allowed it.”
Gilmour goes back with The Beatles, as they both recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios in the late '60s, and McCartney and Wings were working there when Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side of the Moon. Gilmour also plays on McCartney's 1999 album, Run Devil Run.
Note to Gilmour -- if you thought Get Back was a "hard watch," don't bother with the restored version of Let It Be, which premieres next Wednesday, May 8th, on Disney+.