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David Gilmour in Concert is a DVD of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s solo concert that took place at the Royal Festival Hall, London in June 2001, as part of the Robert Wyatt-curated Meltdown festival.
It also features footage filmed during three concerts at the same venue in January 2002.
The track selection includes several Pink Floyd songs, in addition to Gilmour’s solo works. Guest appearances are made by Floyd colleague Richard Wright, as well as Robert Wyatt and Bob Geldof.
It includes the first performance of “Smile”, a track that would appear almost five years later on Gilmour’s third solo album, On an Island. Gilmour also plays two Syd Barrett songs.
Also included is “Je crois entendre encore” (“I still believe I hear”) – an aria from Georges Bizet’s opera Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)[6] – with a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. Sung by Gilmour in the original French.
“I remember my wife Polly’s face going red when I tried singing it,” he recalled, “and my face literally going into a cold sweat – ‘Do I dare try this?’ But once the choir came up here [Gilmour’s studio] and ran through it with me, that gave me a huge amount of confidence.”
