Pink Floyd

[Gasometer]

Gasometer you are 100% right,i saw Floyd in 87-88 M.L.O.R. Tour they never,ever toured here here after that,not on the Division Bell tour.Saw Roger do D.S.O.T.M. and i was 10 rows from the front! AWESOME!!!!

I only know because I would have been there had they toured...

Anywho, there was a great doco on SBS or ABC sometime earlier this year talking about that reunion at the G4 End Poverty. The door seemed half an inch open than it has been these past 20 years for another catch up; but I think the Gilmour-Waters reunion is probably just not gonna happen.

Sad really that whole falling out.

 

[diesel and dust]

Something rather unexpected happened Saturday July, 10th: in a bolt out of the blue, David Gilmour and Roger Waters performed together for the Hoping Foundation Benefit Evening! Guy Pratt performed bass duties whilst Roger was on acoustic guitar, with Roger playing bass at other points during the evening’s performance.

The show took place at the Kiddington Hall, in Oxfordshire.
News of the show, and the appearance by David and Roger, was broken by one of the hosts of the evening, TV presenter Fearne Cotton, who tweeted about the event in the early hours of this morning.

The tracks performed were: To Know Him Is To Love Him, Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb, and Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)…
The band consisted of David, Roger, Guy Pratt (bass and acoustic guitar), Harry Waters (keyboards), Andy Newmark (drums), Chester Kamen (guitar) and Jonjo Grisdale (keyboards). Quite a line-up, who performed in front of 200 very lucky people, raising some £350,000 for the Hoping Foundation (Hope and Optimism for Palestinians In the Next Generation) in the process.

UPDATE: According to Roger Waters’ facebook page, a possible surprise show on The Wall Tour is not out of the question!!!

Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote “If you do ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’ for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I’ll come and do ‘C. Numb’ on one of your Wall shows”. Well! You could have knocked me down with a feather. How ****ing cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn’t, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be shite, but if he didn’t mind I didn’t, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was ****ing great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.
Roger
PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he wants to do, it will be a surprise!
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