The comments came in a new interview with Uncut, ahead of Gilmour’s first new album in nearly a decade, Luck and Strange (due on September 6th). Revealing that he and his wife, Polly Samson, had been invited to watch the ABBA Voyage show, the guitarist explained that he wasn’t quite blown away with the visuals of the hologram format, but appreciated the music.
“If you were a determined ABBA fan, you might enjoy it,” he said (per NME). “I thought the images of them were sort of OK, but they weren’t ever going to convince me it was real. If you’re down the sort of mosh pit end of the thing and it’s all going on, it’s probably great. The best moment for me was when the live band played a song [‘Does Your Mother Know’] on their own.
Then, when asked what he would think of a Pink Floyd hologram show, Gilmour approved of the idea, but not without caveats. “If someone came up with all the money and all the brilliant ideas – and then once we’ve agreed to a series of very, very difficult and onerous conditions – I’d say, ‘Yeah, OK.’”
It’s unclear exactly what those “very, very difficult” would be, but considering some of the tensions among Pink Floyd’s former members, we can take a few guesses.
David Gilmour announced new album 'Luck And Strange', out Sep.6 The first track from the album, "The Piper’s Call", will be released this Thursday, April 25, following a world exclusive first play on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show.
Over the past 18 months, the guitar legend’s wife, author and lyricist Polly Samson, has been posting photos on Instagram of Gilmour working at his Brighton recording studio.
