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David & Atom Heart Mother – A Date For Your
Dairy
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Sunday 15th
June is the day on which David Gilmour has
accepted Ron Geesin's invitation to perform
as a special guest on one of the performances
of the Atom Heart Mother Suite at Cadogan
Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1.
As previously announced elsewhere, Ron Geesin
is recreating Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother
Suite live onstage for the Chelsea Festival,
in two nightly performances: June 14th and 15th. |
Ron, who co-composed the original piece with David
Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright,
is staging it with the talents of a 10-piece brass
ensemble from the Royal College of Music, Italian
band Mun Floyd, the 40-strong Canticum chorus and
cellist Caroline Dale, who has performed with David
at the Festival Hall and on the On An Island
album. The evenings will also feature other Ron Geesin
music, including new scores created especially for
the occasion.
The June 14th show starts at 7.30PM, ending at around
9.45PM, while that on the 15th starts at 7.00PM, ending
at approximately 9.15PM. Tickets went on sale in March,
but we're told that some are still available
now at all prices – £55, £45, £35,
and £25 – though they are restricted to two
per customer (four for Friends of the Chelsea
Festival).
Ticket Purchase Details
Chelsea Festival Box Office
Phone (+44) (0)845 890 2435 or visit www.chelseafestival.org.
Cadogan Hall Box Office
Phone (+44) (0)20 7730 4500 or visit www.cadoganhall.com.
Booking fees apply, except for personal callers.
Box Office opening times are: Chelsea Festival –
Monday to Friday from 10.00AM to 6.00PM; Cadogan Hall
– Monday to Saturday from 10.00AM to 8.00PM (Sundays
10.00AM to 4.00PM). See The
Blog for more details.
Sadly the hall will probably not be full of inflatable
cows, but at least there is a horn section. Rumours
that Cadogan Hall is to be renamed Cowdungan Hall
for the evening have been dismissed as tripe.
Award To The Wise: David Honoured With Ivor
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We are pleased
to announce that David was today the recipient
of a Lifetime Achievement Award from
the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters.
The prestigious guild of successful music creators'
annual Ivor Novello Awards chose this
year to honour David for all aspects of his
musical life. So far, this has encompassed writing,
performing, recording, producing and collaborating.
He has also nurtured talent in its early stages,
as with Kate Bush, Dream Academy, and others,
and no doubt the future will be just as rewarding. |
David received a standing ovation as he collected
the award from his long-time friend Robert Wyatt.
The event, held at London's Grosvenor House, was hosted
by Paul Gambaccini.
Cream Of The Crop
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A Fender Stratocaster
Vintage '57 reissue will be featured at The
Icons Of Music II Auction, which takes place
at the Hard Rock Cafe on Broadway, New York,
on Saturday 31st May at 9.30AM (Eastern).
The guitar was purchased by David from Arbiters,
the UK Fender distributor, and fitted with a
short tremolo arm and later with a set of EMG
SA pickups and SPC/EXG tone boost circuits.
It is one of six vintage Stratocasters purchased
in the mid-eighties by David and was customised
and set up to his personal specifications. |
This guitar (serial number V010612, cream finish,
3-ply pick guard) is known as Cream No. 2 – played
on occasion and mainly used as a backup for Cream
No. 1. It was taken on the Pink Floyd A Momentary
Lapse of Reason tours of 1987, 1988 and 1989,
and Knebworth in 1990. It was loaned to Fender for
an exhibition in the USA in December 1993 before appearing
on Pink Floyd's The Division Bell tour in 1994.
It was loaned to EMI in 1997 for their 'Music 100'
exhibition.
The guitar, which comes with a David Gilmour guitar
pick and guitar strings, has an estimate of $4000
to $6000.
Red Sky That Night – The Gdańsk Album
Sleeve
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Here it is –
the album sleeve for David's forthcoming Live
In Gdańsk album, which is due in September.
The last concert on David's 2006 Summer Tour
was held in front of 50,000 people at the shipyards
in Gdańsk, Poland, at the request of the
Gdańsk Foundation. The creation of the
Solidarity movement, after Lech Walesa's sacking
from the shipyards, led directly to the dismantling
of the Soviet Union's control over the former
Eastern Bloc, and to the reunification of Germany. |
The concert was the only occasion on which David performed
the tour material with an orchestra, using the 40-strong
string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who was responsible
for the On An Island album's orchestral arrangements.
Other unique features of the show included the special
6-screen design, created by lightmeister Marc Brickman
to allow each band member his own dedicated screen
for the edification of the audience; the performance
of A Great Day For Freedom with the orchestral
arrangement of the late Michael Kamen, and a guest
appearance by prominent Polish pianist Leszek Mozdzer,
who reprised his piano part from A Pocketful Of
Stones. |
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