19. 09. 2015

Now I can confirm the extra happy news: just today I have received a pack with two fan-tickets for the only mid-European area concert of 2015 David Gilmour European Tour. David is set to promote the new solo album of his, which reportedly is now in the making "with the works going on nicely" and probably will be released before the tour kicks off. No title, or release date was given yet, there were only reports of Phil Manzanera's involvement in the producing process and the guest appearance by Crosby, Stills and Nash on one of the tracks.

Of note, David's management set the start of pre-sales of tickets for 8 concerts in 6 venues on Friday, March 6th - Gilmour's 69th birthday. Three nights at Royal Albert Hall in London went sold within minutes, my friend located in London wasn't able to secure a single ticket due to transfer jams on the venue's website! Just next day, Saturday afternoon it was officially announced and confirmed that all the tickets are now sold out, including two additional nights in Royal Albert, added in the last moment due to the scale of demand! This goes to show pretty nicely how high is the need of the public to see Gilmour doing his thing live. Since the Floyd's "Division Bell" tour ended in late 1994, surely one solo album and one big worldwide tour of the man wasn't enough to cover the thirst cumulating over the period of 20 relatively silent years, where David only scarcely appeared on the stages of the world. That is a big pity and a huge missed opportunity, since now it's visible that close to turning 70, quite understandably Gilmour's physical abilities will be crossing out prospects of longer tours. In fact, it is very likely that these 10 gigs spread over 3 weeks of September and early October will be the last ever possibility to see The Floyd Wizard playing his full length concert. This makes me even more happy about the possibility to visit Oberhausen in September!