Following the chart-topping success of his latest solo album Luck And Strange, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has revealed he has more new music ready for a follow up.
Speaking in the latest issue of MOJO, Gilmour spoke about the making of his fifth solo LP and how he believes the record stands up next to Pink Floyd’s best albums.
“It’s the best record I’ve made going back to The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here or whatever,” Gilmour told MOJO’s Mark Blake. “With the tour coming up, I’ve also been listening to the last two solo albums, and I think there are some brilliant moments on both, in my humble estimation, that is.”
Although Gilmour and Nick Mason released a single under the Pink Floyd banner in 2022, Hey, Hey, Rise Up!, in aid of the Ukraine Humanitarian Relief Fund, the guitarist has refused numerous offers from promoters to bring the name out of retirement again.
“There’s a consistency to what we’ve just done with this album now,” Gilmour says. “We’ve taken things further.” So much so, Gilmour is already considering making another. “I’ve got a trove of stuff already,” he says. “Bits and pieces of songs, some of which I rather like.”
Elsewhere in the interview, which is on UK newsstands and available to order HERE, Gilmour discusses his ongoing feud with former bandmate Roger Waters.
Waters left Pink Floyd acrimoniously in 1985, with Gilmour assuming leadership of the group for 1987’s A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell in 1994. Despite the group’s classic 70s lineup reuniting for a one-off performance at Live 8 in 2005, the relationship between Gilmour and Waters has been increasingly frosty.
Speaking in an interview with the German newspaper, Berliner Zeitung in 2023, Waters dismissed Hey, Hey, Frise Up! as “content-less… flag waving.” Gilmour’s wife and co-writer Polly Samson responded with a post on Twitter condemning Waters as a “Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac.” “Every word demonstrably true,” stated Gilmour in a follow-up tweet.
“That tweet was boiling up,” Gilmour told MOJO. “It had to come out – and I have no regrets about it. No regrets whatsoever.”
In June this year, Waters denied he was antisemitic during an interview with Piers Morgan on Talk TV and replied, “No comment, it’s private,” when asked to elaborate on his thoughts about the tweet.
Gilmour tells MOJO that he didn’t watch Waters’ interview with Morgan and finds being asked about his relationship with Waters “wearisome”.
“Do you know what decade of my life I was in when Roger left our pop group? My thirties. I am now 78,” he says. “Where’s the relevance?”
You can read the full interview with Gilmour only in the latest issue of MOJO. More information and to order a copy HERE!
Main picture: David Gilmour shot exclusively for MOJO Magazine at his houseboat studio, August 2024. Credit: Kevin Westenberg