Remembering Syd on what would have been his 75th birthday.
Our Von Trapped Family is back for a Christmas livestream! Join us over on my Facebook Page on Wednesday evening at 6.30pm GMT for music and chat. @pollysamson @charliegilmour @romany.rose @janapedan
Happy Birthday Polly – for ever and ever ♥️♥️
Here is the official video for ‘Hey Hey Rise Up’, @pinkfloyd’s new Ukraine fundraiser feat @andriihorolski of Boombox. Stream / download from midnight.
Very pleased to be working with @martinguitar on the D-35 David Gilmour Custom Signature Edition, as 6 and 12 string models (the 6 string is based on my 1940s Martin D-18). This collaboration will support my Charitable Foundation. Full details at www.martinguitar.com/gilmour 📷 @pollysamson
Pink Floyd’s new single, Hey Hey Rise Up – feat @andriihorolski of Ukrainian band Boombox – is out now worldwide. Download / stream via link in bio. All proceeds of the song will go to Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief. Here is the full video with subtitles in Ukrainian and English.
I watched this again the other day and loved it. Hope you enjoy it too. Full video on my YouTube channel. 🎥 @gavin_elder
Raising a glass to @pollysamson (and Olinka) on the North American release day of her wonderful novel, A Theater For Dreamers.
In February last year, David joined guests assembled by @mickfleetwoodofficial to celebrate Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green. The film of this once in a lifetime concert is coming to cinemas in the UK/Europe from the 7th September. Info / tickets at cinemalive.com
Watch David and @romany.rose’s special performance recorded for the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival earlier this year.
Missing Rick on his birthday. Here’s the birth of Marooned from our @pinkfloyd sessions of January 1993. It was originally known as Cosmic 13. Just Rick with me, Nick and Guy jamming straight to a stereo DAT machine at Britannia Row. For me, a magical moment. Full demo on the Pink Floyd YouTube
📺 David has put together some higher quality videos of his performances from the Von Trapped Family livestreams, which we’ll be uploading in full to his official YouTube channel over the coming weeks. We begin with David’s cover of Syd Barrett’s Dominoes from May 2020.
Russian soldiers, stop killing your brothers. There will be no winners in this war. My daughter-in-law is Ukrainian and my grand-daughters want to visit and know their beautiful country. Stop this before it is all destroyed. Putin must go
The latest Von Trapped Family performance to be uploaded to David’s YouTube is his and @romany.rose’s version of The Magpie, which was originally by David Dodds. This one was in celebration of the release of @charliegilmour’s Featherhood memoir. Watch the full video on YouTube.
To stand with the world in strongly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the works of Pink Floyd, from 1987 onwards, and all of David Gilmour’s solo recordings are being removed from all digital music providers in Russia and Belarus from today.
David’s Von Trapped Family performance of Leonard Cohen’s Bird On The Wire is now available on his YouTube channel.
Our Von Trapped family returns for another live stream on Thursday evening, this time to celebrate the North American release of @charliegilmour’s memoir, Featherhood. Join us on Facebook at 6pm GMT / 1pm ET. @pollysamson @romany.rose @janapedan
The latest Von Trapped Family performance to be uploaded to David’s YouTube channel is his April 2020 version of On An Island. Watch the full video at youtube.com/davidgilmour
Here’s David’s take on Morning Has Broken from last week’s Von Trapped Family livestream, which celebrated the US release of @charliegilmour’s Featherhood memoir.
“Shall I sing a folky blues song about a robbery?” The latest Von Trapped Family performance to be uploaded to David’s YouTube is his version of Diamond Ring, originally by Erik Darling, which David learnt to play when he was 16. Watch the full video on YouTube now.
In February last year, David joined guests assembled by @mickfleetwoodofficial to celebrate Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green. The film of this joyous concert will now be streamed online from 24 April as well as in cinemas in Australia & NZ from 25 March. Tickets at mickfleetwoodandfriends.com
If you missed our livestream on Dec 23, the higher-res version is available now. Enjoy! @pollysamson @charliegilmour @romany.rose @janapedan
I’m told that @roughtrade are down to their last remaining limited edition CDs of music composed to accompany @pollysamson’s A Theatre For Dreamers, which are available as a bonus if you order the new paperback from the link in my bio.
Here’s the trailer for the paperback of @pollysamson’s A Theatre For Dreamers (out April 15), featuring a new piece of music I made, which is on the bonus CD you can currently get with the paperback if you pre-order from @roughtrade (link in Polly’s bio)
