Monthly Archive: May 2006
Resources & Links David Gilmour | Scottish TV | /Discuss | There is an online interview with David Gilmour on the Scotland Today website. It includes footage from the Glasgow May 27 gig. It also features some probing questions and some interesting answers so give it a watch!! The interview was broadcast on Scotland Today, the news programme on Scottish TV today (Mon 30), and the version on the website is a longer version than the broadcast interview. It’s available to watch in Windows Media format on this page. File Saving Note: If you are using the free Firefox web browser, right click on the Scottish TV website page as detailed above, and then select “View Oage Info” then “Media” and then select the video and click “save as” to save to your computer for future reference. Source: [ John at STV.tv ]
David Gilmour has done a rather revealing interview for Britain’s The Sunday Telegraph broadsheet newspaper. You can view on the Telegraph website here or read below. —— David Gilmour is the model rock-star plutocrat – modest, creative, generous. Until the talk turns to money… and the Rolling Stones. ‘How much do they need?’ he asks Nigel Farndale. ‘It’s like a sexual compulsion’. An arrow of barking geese spirals down towards a lake. Horses stand dozily in meadows, swishing their tails against the early summer flies. There are copses of woodland here, and thickening hedgerows and, sometimes, because this parcel of West Sussex is owned by a rock star, fans. ‘There is a public footpath beyond those fields over there,’ David Gilmour says with a lethargic nod. ‘Fans do sometimes walk it and I see them videoing the house. On the whole, though, they leave us alone.’ The ‘house’ he refers...
Official Sites – Columbia – David Gilmour “Smile” from David Gilmour’s third solo album On An Island will be the next single to be released on 5th June 2006! The song has been added to the BBC Radio 2 playlist and the video has been directed by David Mallet and Nick Morris. You can visit David Gilmour’s website to watch the video streaming or you can save the video below. There are also some screen captures below that you can click on to enlarge too! The video is a beautiful montage of images flowing into one another and is very “arty” indeed! Slightly more “abstract” than the video for On An Island. Smile Music Video (8.68MB) Screen Captures from Smile Music Video Source: [ David Gilmour Website ]
Resources & Links David Gilmour Website | Discuss concerts on forum | View Full Tour Dates Further to yesterday’s news that David Gilmour has added several dates to his 2006 tour, he has now added a further night in the wonderful country of Poland! David has accepted an invitation from Pawel Adamowicz, Major of Gdansk in Poland, to perform a special concert in the Gdansk shipyards on Saturday 26th August. It will mark the 26th anniversary of the founding of Solidarity, and over 100,000 people are expected to attend the open-air event. The concert, funded by the City of Gdansk and Solidarity, is set to be an annual event, titled “It Started In Gdansk – The Space Of Freedom”. August 26th is a national holiday, celebrating the founding of the Solidarity trade union in 1980; nine years later the Communist Government fell, and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was elected president...
Resources & Links David Gilmour Website | Discuss concerts on forum | Tour Rooms on Wiki It has been confirmed on David Gilmour’s website that a number of new concerts have been added to his 2006 European and American tour. You can get info about where to book from David Gilmour’s website. July 27, 2006: AUSTRIA – NR. LINZ CLAM CASTLEBurg ClamSperken 44352 KlamBox Office: (+43) 1 96096 (plus system fee). July 29, 2006: GERMANY – MUNICH KÖNIGSPLATZKönigsplatz 180333 MünchenBox Office: 01805 570 000 (0.12 Euros/min) and ‘all local outlets’. July 31, 2006: FRANCE – VIENNE (South of Lyon) THÉÂTRE ANTIQUE7 Rue du Cirque38200 Vienne August 2, 2006: ITALY – FLORENCE PIAZZA SANTA CROCE50122 FirenzeBox Office: 899 500 022 August 4 & 5, 2006: ITALY – VENICE PIAZZA SAN MARCO30124 Venezia Source: [ David Gilmour Website ]
Resources & Links David Gilmour Website | Discuss concerts on forum Another chance to see David Gilmour live: 16th May in cinemas across the US. As mentioned on the www.davidgilmour.com website, don’t forget that there’s a chance to see David Gilmour’s live show in one of over US 100 cinemas on Tuesday 16th May. Thanks to a set-up in the USA whereby various concerts can be shown on cinema screens for a limited period, David Gilmour’s live appearance at London’s Mermaid Theatre has been scheduled to run for one day only in cinemas in almost every US state. ‘David Gilmour: On An Island’ is presented by National CineMedia and Network LIVE in high-definition and surround sound at more than 100 participating Regal, United Artists, Edwards, Cinemark, AMC and Georgia Theatre Company cinemas across the USA. Check out the official ticket sales site Big Screen Concerts, where a couple of judicious...
