Dave Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall.

ditchboy

Anybody else pre-ordered the album to get access to the pre-sale? I’m pretty confident I’ll be disappointed in the morning but fingers crossed!

TheMarlin

I’ve preordered the vinyl, got my preorder code for 10am tomorrow. 

I’ve never seen him live, so might as well give it a blast. I’ll be there with all the other crusty old blokes , complaining about my arthritis and dodgy knee, air guitaring like a teenager. 

ditchboy

TheMarlin said:

I’ve preordered the vinyl, got my preorder code for 10am tomorrow. 

I read somewhere he doesn’t do any of the Waters era material which will be a shame but I’d like to see him regardless. 

FastEddie

He may need to borrow a strat. I heard he sold his last one.......

ditchboy

FastEddie said:

He may need to borrow a strat. I heard he sold his last one.......

I’d happily let him use mine. 

richardhomer

Yes - will be having a go tomorrow morning…

ditchboy

Any ideas on prices yet? 

TheMarlin

Will feed back in the morning on price. 

Funkfingers

ditchboy said:

I read somewhere he doesn’t do any of the Waters era material which will be a shame but I’d like to see him regardless. 

DG is appearing live to promote his new record and, in all probability, record the RAH show(s) to release later on video.

There is more than enough material in the DG back catalogue to fill a decent length set. The song list may also be tailored to suit any special guests scheduled to appear. e.g. Roy Harper introduced, expect Short And Sweet. Pete Townshend introduced, expect White City Fighting or All Lovers Are Deranged. Kate Bush introduced (I wish!), expect Love And Anger. You get the picture.

It would be so nice if the support act were Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets but they would have to drastically curtail their set.

Whitecat

David hasn’t had support acts in decades. Hopefully Nick will just show up for a couple numbers. 

Funkfingers

Last DG tour I attended was About Face. I was at the Hammersmith date when Billy Bragg made the between-song banter comment about Syd Barrett that got him kicked off the remainder of the tour. (Silly Billy!)

dazzajl

It would be so nice if the support act were Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets but they would have to drastically curtail their set.

And pay Guy twice? Can’t see the old guys doing that

There are still tickets for Nick at the RAH aren’t there? 

Hurling_Fruitmig

There were over 3000 people in front of me in the digital queue for the one night I'd be able to make. Seems unlikely I'll be going.

richardhomer

I’m through the queue and site seems to be frozen…

Whitecat

£277 + fees for the decent seats (and not all of those are even all that hot) - I’m sadly out. Will forever have memories of his previous two tours, the time I saw Pink Floyd in 1994, that time he sat in with the Italian Pink Floyd cover band to play Atom Heart Mother and the time he sat in with Amadou & Mariam at the Union Chapel (which was like £25 or something iirc, that was a different time). 

AustrianJohn

Hurling_Fruitmig said:

There were over 3000 people in front of me in the digital queue for the one night I'd be able to make. Seems unlikely I'll be going.

I joined the queue when it opened and the web page just says HAPPENING NOW and has a blue circle going round and round for half an hour. Sounds like you made more progress.

HAL9000

Whitecat said:

£277 + fees for the decent seats (and not all of those are even all that hot) - I’m sadly out. Will forever have memories of his previous two tours, the time I saw Pink Floyd in 1994, that time he sat in with the Italian Pink Floyd cover band to play Atom Heart Mother and the time he sat in with Amadou & Mariam at the Union Chapel (which was like £25 or something iirc, that was a different time). 

The only time I’ve seen David Gilmour the tickets cost, IIRC, £5 each. Mind you that was back in ‘73 or ‘74 for the DSOTM tour

Whitecat

HAL9000 said:

Whitecat said:

£277 + fees for the decent seats (and not all of those are even all that hot) - I’m sadly out. Will forever have memories of his previous two tours, the time I saw Pink Floyd in 1994, that time he sat in with the Italian Pink Floyd cover band to play Atom Heart Mother and the time he sat in with Amadou & Mariam at the Union Chapel (which was like £25 or something iirc, that was a different time). 

The only time I’ve seen David Gilmour the tickets cost, IIRC, £5 each. Mind you that was back in ‘73 or ‘74 for the DSOTM tour

That’s a little over £52 in today money - still a bargain and less than half of what I paid to see DG on the last tour, but only just. £110ish at the time felt stiff, but I justified it to myself that it could be the last time he ever toured. I’m not falling for that again!

TheMarlin

It’s seems bots have cleared out all tickets for all days

AustrianJohn

TheMarlin said:

It’s seems bots have cleared out all tickets for all days

Were all the tickets on sale today, or only a selection?

Kultschar

Managed to get tickets for Sat and the Monday.   Had no problem my end thankfully