Pink Floyd in Ireland??

Chardee MacDennis

I have been hearing some rumours that Pink Floyd may be playing Ireland summer 2007, has anyone else heard anything about them touring again?

Wishbone Ash

Call_me_al wrote:

I have been hearing some rumours that Pink Floyd may be playing Ireland summer 2007, has anyone else heard anything about them touring again?

I was all set to go to see them in the RDS in 1988/1989? but they cancelled the show a couple of days beforehand. They blamed the horseshow and said that they would not have enough time to set up. I was mightily pissed off at the time!

Didn't hear anything about next year though.

So Glad

It's just rumours I'd say. If it is true, I will **** myslef.

mike65

As far as I knew they had no plans to tour or record again.

Mike.

NIBBS

as Mike said, as far as I know there are no Pink Floyd tours planned, in fact from what they've said it's highly unlikely that they'll every perform on the same stage (at the same time) again.........pity, but I think it highly unlikely they'll be here next year.......

looks like Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath with Dio) may well be here, if there's a Download festival here next year (and with the money they made out of it there's no reason for them not to hold another one)........they are apparently headlining next years Donnington Download.....

*Tripper*

Ah i'd love to see them but there's always rumours like this floating around and i think i've become immune to them!

Chardee MacDennis

well i've been working on the concert scene for a few years and i have been told they have been booked in dublin for june - but the thing is no one has heard a thing bout the reformation. so i though it was odd.

Wishbone Ash

Call_me_al wrote:

well i've been working on the concert scene for a few years and i have been told they have been booked in dublin for june -

Please keep us posted al if you hear a whisper.

grumpytrousers

Call_me_al wrote:

well i've been working on the concert scene for a few years and i have been told they have been booked in dublin for june - but the thing is no one has heard a thing bout the reformation. so i though it was odd.

Not, for a moment, disputing your sources or anything, but there was an interview with Gilmour recently in Word Magazine and he described the Live8 thing as great fun but rather like 'sleeping with the ex-wife'.

Now - it all depends on money, obv...but the impression i got from the interview was that, whatever about performing with Wright and Mason, it'll be a terribly terribly *terribly* cold day in hell before he shares a stage with Mrs Waters' young lad...

lodgepole

Can't Gilmour, Mason and Wright still play under the Pink Floyd banner? It'd be great to see the four playing together, but fup it, three would do. Presumably if they were touring the only venues that they could play in Ireland would be Slane or the Phoenix Park.

phantom_lord

Amazing if it were true, but i doubt it.

Wishbone Ash

grumpytrousers wrote:

there was an interview with Gilmour recently in Word Magazine and he described the Live8 thing as great fun but rather like 'sleeping with the ex-wife'.

Did Waters not say that on stage during their Live8 piece?

grumpytrousers

I'd be surprised if he (Waters) did. He did say, from what i remember, how nice it was to be 'up here with the band again doing these songs'...

to be honest - if anybody seems to have been cold about the idea of the 4 playing together it's Gilmour more than Waters; I guess the latter *might* need the money a wee bit more (not that he's destitute) but if anybody seems to be a touch smug about 'I don't need Pink Floyd anymore', it's Dave Gilmour. Despite the fact, obv, that he either has the keyboard player or the drummer (can't remember which) as part of his current 'solo' touring band.

to be honest anything here is based on reading an article well over a year ago, but i'm pretty certain that the 4 won't appear again together, and Dave G will need a lot of people to ignore his solo work before he decides to get out the Golden Pages and look up 'big-f*ck-off-spectacular-state-set-Designers'

Clum

Roger Waters is continuing his 2006 tour in to 2007 playing Oz, NZ, South America and then hitting Europe again (no Irish dates announced yet). This will be spread over the first 5 months of the year.

I've heard nothing of a Floyd tour but Gilmour, Wright and Mason, at the launch of the Pulse DVD earlier this year, did hint strongly at how much they enjoy performing on stage together and agreed to support each other again in the future should the need arise...

Wishbone Ash

Clum wrote:

did hint strongly at how much they enjoy performing on stage together and agreed to support each other again in the future should the need arise...

i.e. when the accountant tells them.

Fanny Cradock

Whispers began after Pink Floyd's all to brief appearance at live8 that, yes, they were to reform. The rumor began to gain some sort of legitimacy after it was repeated by a number of respected sources. Rapidly the whispers became shouts; it really looked like they would tour one last time. Deadly stuff, I thought. Dream come true and all that! Anywho, the rumors, as often happens, became so widely believed that they became fact. In response, Gilmore, on his website, categorically denied that they were about to reform and quashed any possibility and this would ever happen. Things change of course... maybe someone forgot to pay a tax bill or two, but I remain skeptical. However, keep us posted

mathias

I find that this is the best site for any kind of floyd news ,

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/old/

Judging by the dates Waters is playing next year it looks highly unlikely that they will fit in a reunion along the way , unless of course the rest of the band join him for one of the " Waters - Dark side of the moon" shows.
I suppose that could easily happen.

I seen waters show in Dublin a couple of years ago , the " In the flesh tour " , I have to say it was excellent , he played maybe 1.5 hours of floyd stuff , including all of dark side of the moon and some animals stuff , then took a break and came back out and did another 1.5 hours of his own stuff. Mostly of pros and cons and amused to death !! Outstanding !!

mike65

None of them needs the cash thats obvious enough, the Momentary Lapse/Divison Bell era alone made Gilmore, Wright and Mason faboulously rich add in the back catalogue and "vault material" and they are ALL laughing. Gilmore just had a number one album so I guess he problerly does'nt feel the need.

Mike.

Ernesto

mike65 wrote:

None of them needs the cash thats obvious enough, the Momentary Lapse/Divison Bell era alone made Gilmore, Wright and Mason faboulously rich add in the back catalogue and "vault material" and they are ALL laughing. Gilmore just had a number one album so I guess he problerly does'nt feel the need.

Mike.

well, they were offered 200 million sterling to do a short world tour after live8 and they turned it down.outright

mike65

I see Roger Waters is touring DSOTM next May, 3 dates announced for UK.

Mike.

Ernesto

mike65 wrote:

I see Roger Waters is touring DSOTM next May, 3 dates announced for UK.

Mike.

he already played DSOTM down in Cork in the Speigal tent in the summer. extended unheard versions & all.

dimerocks

IF they did reform for gigs i would pay any money and travel anywhere to see them. Was at live8 and the time they were on stage was amazing!

Chardee MacDennis

right so my info was wrong and it was Waters and in May - think it was just written in as the Dark Side of the Moon Tour and someone jumped to conclusions!! sorry for getting your hopes up...

Alkers

Yeah, bit annoying that, there's a big picture of the Dark Side of the Moon album cover on the ticketmaster site.