A new album and a possible new tour are on the cards, according to Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.
The veteran musician confirmed he was in the process of making a new album to follow up 2024’s Luck and Strange. He also suggested it was likely a tour would follow to promote the album, though it would be a similar, residency-style set of performances. Gilmour performed at the Royal Albert Hall and Madison Square Garden on his Luck and Strange tour, and has suggested fans will have to travel to him to see future shows, rather than he to them. His days of being on the road are over, it would seem, but touring is far from finished. It’ll be a relief to fans who missed out on the sold-out tour last year, though details of the possible tour are limited.
Gilmour, speaking to Rolling Stone Magazine, confirmed work on a new solo album is underway and that a tour would likely follow. He said: “I’m slowly building up towards a new album, and I have quite a bit of material that is in some sort of formative stage. That’s what’s keeping me busy at the moment.”
When asked if the same band as the last album and tour were working with Gilmour, the legendary guitarist said it was just himself in the studio at the moment. He explained: “I do it pretty much all myself and I work on Pro Tools. I don’t play the drums all that well, and I do that with machinery in the modern tradition.
“And I put things together so that I can fiddle around for months, adding little bits, taking things away till I think that I’ve got something close to where I want it. I then can take it into a studio with a bunch of people and know exactly what I want to do and how I want to get it done and present it to these people for their input.”
Gilmour did not share any details regarding the name of the album or theme, as it’s far too early to tell. But he did suggest it could be within the next two years that we receive a follow-up to Luck and Strange.
He confirmed: “It’s always my intention to be a bit quicker, and I suspect this one will be a bit quicker. But you never can tell. Within the next year or two. I guess I’ll probably do it [a tour]. I probably wouldn’t mind doing something again on a similar level to this one. I’m afraid I will not be schlepping around all the cities of America, South America, Europe, and the rest of the world. That’s for the young folk.”
It’s a “little early” for a timeline of the album’s creation, but Gilmour is keen to “get some studio sessions in” before the end of the year.
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