David Gilmour names the three Pink Floyd songs he won’t play on new tour
David Gilmour has looked ahead to his first tour in eight years, revealing the Pink Floyd classics that won’t be making the setlist.
Gilmour recently shared his new solo album, Luck and Strange, on September 5th, marking the musician’s first release in almost a decade. To promote the new LP, the former Pink Floyd singer is set to take the record across Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America later this year.
The run of dates begins on September 27th at Circo Massimo in Rome, a venue Gilmour is set to play six times. He’ll then return to home soil for six performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London throughout October.
Gilmour is also scheduled to play four dates in Los Angeles, including three shows at the Hollywood Bowl. The tour concludes with five performances at Madison Square Garden in New York.
As it’s his first tour in many years, Gilmour has taken preparations exceptionally seriously. However, Pink Floyd fans will be disappointed to know that three classic tracks haven’t made the cut.
The singer-songwriter revealed in a new interview with Mojo: “There are songs from the past that I no longer feel comfortable singing. “I love ‘Run Like Hell’ (The Wall). I loved the music I created for it, but all that (sings) ‘You’d better run, run, run…’ I now find that all rather, I don’t know… a bit terrifying and violent.”
He also shared: “‘Another Brick In The Wall’ is another one I shan’t be doing. I don’t think I’ve done that with my own band, but I certainly did it in the post-Roger Pink Floyd, against my better judgement. The same with ‘Money’. I won’t be doing that.”
However, despite those three being culled, there will still be plenty of Pink Floyd classics being aired on the tour, stating, “I’m going to be sticking with the ones that are essentially my music, and I feel some ownership of. ‘Comfortably Numb’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, maybe…”
Gilmour has “no regrets” over Roger Waters comments
In the same interview, Gilmour again expressed his desire to leave Pink Floyd in the past and ruled out the possibility of a reunion, remarking, “Do you know what decade of my life I was in when Roger left our pop group? My thirties. I am now 78. Where’s the relevance?”
Gilmour also defended his decision to support his wife, Polly Samson, on social media, after she called Roger Waters “a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac.” He previously called her comment “demonstrably true”, and now stated, “It had to come out – and I have no regrets about it. No regrets whatsoever.”
Furthermore, while speaking to ITV News earlier this month, Gilmour said of a potential Pink Floyd comeback: “Dream on, it’s not going to happen. There’s only three people left and we’re not talking and unlikely to so it’s not gonna happen.”
In a four-star review of Gilmour’s new album, Luck and Strange, Far Out wrote: “The album is tortuous both sonically and emotionally, with moments of brightness, darkness, beauty and fear. As we make our way through this series of emotional undulations, however, Samson and Gilmour present omnipresent themes of ageing and mortality. Gilmour’s glory years with Pink Floyd are many years behind him now, but in this balanced, familial album, he proves he’s still got it.
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