I just received word that Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour is planning to release in September Live In Gdańsk, a 2-CD set recorded during the last show of his 2006 summer tour.
This concert, played before 50,000 people at the shipyards in Gdańsk, Poland, was special on a variety of fronts. It was the only time Gilmour and his band were accompanied by an orchestra, using the string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who was responsible for the orchestration on Gilmour’s 2006 solo record, On An Island. Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer also makes an appearance to reprise his part from “A Pocketful Of Stones.”
Visually, this show included a special six-screen design that gave each band member his own dedicated screen. Maybe this means a DVD will follow. Either way, this set should be a real treat for Floyd and Gilmour fans alike. I caught a show from the tour (see my 2006 David Gilmour concert review) and was totally blown out of my seat. I liked it even better than the late 80s/early 90s era Pink Floyd shows.
I’m thinking this will be a great companion piece to 2007’s Remember That Night, a 2-DVD package from London’s Royal Albert Hall. It also means I can ditch the half-dozen bootlegs I downloaded from the tour. Good thing too, because they’re taking up way too much space on on my hard drive.
