David Gilmour has announced a residency at the Royal Albert Hall in London, marking his first live shows in eight years. Find all the details below.
The soloist and former Pink Floyd guitarist will play six concerts at the historic venue this October in support of his fifth album ‘Luck And Strange’, which is released on September 6 via Sony.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am BST next Friday (May 10) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale on Thursday (9) by pre-ordering Gilmour’s new record here before 3pm BST on Wednesday (8).
The musician last played live publicly as a solo artist in 2016, when he embarked on a similar residency at the Royal Albert Hall. No further dates for 2024 have been confirmed at time of writing.
Check out the announcement post and video below.
LONDON SHOWS ANNOUNCED
Royal Albert Hall
9, 10, 11, 12, 14 & 15 October
First access to tickets for UK/IE residents pre-ordering Luck and Strange from the official David Gilmour UK Album Store at https://t.co/JccqxvlrUK (inc those who have already done so)
General sale, Friday… pic.twitter.com/xx5VLE6uSZ
— David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) May 3, 2024
Gilmour shared his plans to return to the stage recently, and talked about the amendments he had made to his touring band.
“It was all too robotic, and some people would have been better off in a Pink Floyd tribute band,” he explained.
“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 Guy [Pratt] and the Webb Sisters, who sang with Leonard Cohen on his last tours.”
Gilmour has also discussed the potential to have an ABBA Voyage-syle holographic Pink Floyd show.
David Gilmour will play:
OCTOBER
09 – Royal Albert Hall, London
10 – Royal Albert Hall, London
11 – Royal Albert Hall, London
12 – Royal Albert Hall, London
14 – Royal Albert Hall, London
15 – Royal Albert Hall, London
The forthcoming ‘Luck And Strange’ marks the musician’s first solo album in nine years, following 2015’s ‘Rattle That Lock’.
The LP was co-produced by Gilmour and Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Wolf Alice). Speaking about the new working relationship in a press release, Gilmour said: “We invited Charlie to the house, so he came and listened to some demos, and said things like, ‘Well, why does there have to be a guitar solo there?’ and ‘Do they all fade out? Can’t some of them just end?’”
He continued: “He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine. He’s very direct and not in any way overawed, and I love that. That is just so good for me because the last thing you want is people just deferring to you.”
