Roger Waters & Dave Gilmour re-unite.

[G.O.B]

Over the weekend, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Roger Waters reunited to perform four songs at an English benefit that raised money for young Palestinian refugees, marking the first time the two played in public since 2005's Live 8 concert.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/180387

It further stated that Roger Waters invited Dave to come along for the 30th anniversary of The Wall tour but Dave was uninterested.

Either way, some exciting news coming soon I would think.

http://www.pollysamson.com/gallery_hoping.htm

 

[UpForGrabs]

From Roger's Facebook page:

The gig with David

Today at 1:57pm

So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation' a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids, (www.hopingfoundation.org) put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an impromptu rendition of George Gershwin's 'Summertime?' which he performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss.

In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came up with this 'Wouldn't it be funny', idea. What if he (David that is) were to sing the old Teddy Bears song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each other's throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of juggling dates and deciding to do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Comfortably Numb' to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David, with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then struggle through hours and hours of routinizing a performance that lay way outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and told Dave I would happily do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'C. Numb', but that 'To Know him is to Love him' was beyond me.

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!

 

[La Dispute]

Now we just need Milli Vanilla to reunite.

 

[yirra_kurl]

OMG OMG OMG!!! I was born in '85 never witnessed the pink floyd era live

 

[moistie]

I know we have no hope of scoring that gig. I just live in hope that Roger tours Australia again. The Dark Side of the Moon tour was awesome.

 

[Gorry]

The full video of the four song show can be found here... http://www.rogerwaterstours.com/ind...letter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=NL100816

Set list as follows:
To know him is to love him.
Wish you were here
Comfortably numb
Another Brick in the wall (Pt 2)

Makes an old man very happy to see this...

 

[Gasometer]

The Wall concerts sound like the ultimate...please come to Australia!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Live_(2010–2011_tour)