Michael Kamen - piano and cor anglais
Chucho Merchan - double bass
Caroline Dale - cello
Dick Parry - saxophone
Neill MacColl - acoustic guitar
Nic France - percussion
Gospel Choir led by Sam Brown

"Reinvented rock god shines on as 21st Century folk hero" (The Times)
 

DAVID GILMOUR IN CONCERT DVD & VHS

On 23rd September, 'David Gilmour in Concert', the DVD and VHS, is released on Capitol Records.
Filmed live at his critically acclaimed Meltdown Festival concert at London's Royal Festival Hall in June 2001, with additional footage from David Gilmour's three concerts at the same venue in January 2002.
It also includes guest appearances from Rick Wright, Robert Wyatt and Sir Bob Geldof.
The 130 minute DVD/VHS captures the magical performance given by David Gilmour and illustrates why these concerts won universal rave reviews.
 
"David Gilmour in Concert" comprises 16 songs performed by Gilmour, his semi-acoustic band rich in talent and the exquisite gospel choir led by Sam Brown.
The set is tantalising in its sheer diversity - from Pink Floyd classics such as Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb and High Hopes, to Syd Barrett's Terrapin and Dominoes as well as a performance
of Je Crois Entendre Encore from Bizet's opera The Pearl Fishers which one critic described as an "unlikely triumph..." and a new song Smile.
 
Where did the idea for such a musical departure come from? Gilmour explains: "Robert Wyatt was the Meltdown Festival's curator for 2001.
He rang and invited me to play and my immediate answer was "yes".
While Robert was still on the phone, an idea came to me, God knows where from. I thought: just a double-bass, a cello and a small gospel choir. Then I put down the phone and started to panic..."
 
That initial panic led to Gilmour being credited in the Daily Telegraph, with inventing a "whole new genre....a sound that is warm, richly textured and genuinely different...ensemble music of the highest order."
The Meltdown performance went so well, David Gilmour decided to come back to the Royal Festival Hall a few months later to perform the show three more times.
As he explains, "It seemed rather daft putting that amount of effort into it for only one night. So I thought maybe I'd do it again for fun. Just for me really."
 
And now, with the release of "David Gilmour in Concert" on the 23rd September, the concert can be shared and enjoyed by many more.
 
The DVD will also feature more than thirty minutes of Special Features.
These include home video footage of David Gilmour rehearsing at home with the choir, six guitar solos in "close-up" so that guitar enthusiasts can watch him play his solos in detail and there are three bonus songs recorded at other times.


(Thanks to Victor Hopson and www.gilmourwhore.com for the heads up on this!)