David Gilmour hoping to release a new album within the “next year or two”
David Gilmour has confirmed he’s currently working on a new album, which he hopes will be released in the “next year or two”.
Gilmour’s last album, Luck and Strange, arrived in 2024. He subsequently took the album on a 23-date world tour, including multiple nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall and six shows at the Circus Maximus in Rome, which he’s turned into the new concert film, Live at the Circus Maximus.
The run of dates concluded last November at Madison Square Garden in New York, and since then, he has been back to work in the studio plotting his next record.
During a new interview with Rolling Stone, Gilmour revealed, “I’m slowly building up towards a new album, and I have quite a bit of material that is in some sort of formative stage. That’s what’s keeping me busy at the moment.”
As he’s still in the early stages of creating his next record, Gilmour is working on it “pretty much all myself” with the assistance of ProTools which he’ll continue to do until he’s “got something close to where I want it”. Once the collection of songs is ready, Gilmour reveals, “I then can take it into a studio with a bunch of people and know exactly what I want to do and how I want to get it done and present it to these people for their input.”
While there’s no precise timeframe, he hopes it will not be another nine-year wait between solo albums, stating, “It’s always my intention to be a bit quicker, and I suspect this one will be a bit quicker. But you never can tell. Within the next year or two.”
Gilmour, who is now 79, said, “I guess I’ll probably” tour the album upon release, but similarly to Luck and Strange, it’ll be a limited run of dates rather than an extensive world tour.
One venue that could be attractive to Gilmour is the Sphere in Las Vegas, which he didn’t rule out when posed with the question, responding, “Well, to be honest, I really know almost nothing about what it does. But they have been on and suggested that I might do something there. But in the future, who knows. I haven’t got that far.”
David Gilmour: Live at the Circus Maximus is set to be released on September 17th, 2025.
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