With the famed London venue, like Pink Floyd, coming to an end, the guitarist makes rare appearance to bid Earls Court farewell The Endless River might mark the end of Pink Floyd, but that doesnt mean David Gilmour will cease performing the bands music. The guitarist made a rare appearance Saturday night at a Bombay Bicycle Club concert at Londons Earls Court, first playing lap steel guitar on that bands Rinse Me Down before performing the Pink Floyd classic Wish You Were Here live for the first time in over two years, NME reports. RELATED Pink Floyd Pink Floyd Say Goodbye This man gave me my first guitar and was one of the first people to play this venue and by my count has played here more than 27 times, Bombay Bicycle Club guitarist Jamie MacColl told the crowd. The Bombay Bicycle Clubs gig at Earls Court was to be the last concert ever at the legendary venue before its planned demolition and redevelopment, so it was natural for the Pink Floyd guitarist to be on hand for Earls Courts curtain call. Gilmour has a long history with the historic Earls Court Exhibition Centre: Pink Floyd performed Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety at the London venue in 1973. Portions of Pink Floyds live album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 and the entire 1995 Pulse concert film were also recorded at Earls Court. The venue, when it hosted the 1981 Wall performance, marked the spot of the final concert by the classic Pink Floyd lineup until their Live 8 reunion in 2005. While Pink Floyd is no more, Gilmour previously revealed that he plans on releasing a solo album and going back out on tour in the future. Its coming along very well, Gilmour told Rolling Stone of his solo LP. There are some sketches that arent finished, and some of them will be started again. Theres a few months work in it yet. Im hoping to get it out this following year. Then Im hoping to do an old mans tour, not a 200-date sort of thing. In other Pink Floyd news that encapsulates the bands lasting impact, Dark Side of the Moon reentered the Billboard 200s Top 20 this week – Number 13 to be exact – more than 40 years after the album was first released. The reemergence of Dark Side was fueled by a Google Play special that offered a 99-cent download of the LP, resulting in over 38,000 more copies sold for the most charted album in Billboard history at 889 weeks and counting.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 04:36:06 +0000
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