Details below on exclusives available from
Best Buy and
Borders...
from davidgilmour.com--
Tuesday 18th September 2007
North American Opportunities
Hopefully you've been waiting for today if you live in the USA or Canada, since the
Remember That Night DVD is finally instore there. As you may have seen on The Blog, there are a couple of extra retail opportunities if you live near a Best Buy or a Borders outlet (US only).
Best Buy sold the most copies in the US of
On An Island, and they have a little something extra for the RTN DVD – an audio CD of three tracks from the AOL sessions:
On An Island;
Take A Breath; and
High Hopes. It comes in a cardboard sleeve and is INSIDE the shrinkwrapped package, so every BB buyer should get one. (The stock is stickered 'Exclusive CD inside features 3 unreleased tracks'.) They are unreleased commercially, but of course the audio-visuals have been available free via AOL.
Also, the
Borders chain has an extra mini-poster designed by Steve Knee, featuring David on the black Strat with green lasers behind. Again the stock containing the poster is stickered for easy location.
Monday 17th September 2007
VH1's Beat Route
For US fans' eyes only: VH1 Classic takes a David Gilmour road trip with
The Road To The Royal Albert Hall. It is actually a version of the first half of the
Breaking Bread documentary, directed by Gavin Elder, with some extended songs added, all taken from the
Remember That Night DVD Royal Albert Hall concert footage. There is an added small portion of the US documentary
The West Coast – also included on the DVD.
The story, with backstage footage, travelogues and interviews, takes you from rehearsals at Bray with a detour to Los Angeles, then a trip through Manchester and Glasgow, before arriving at London's Royal Albert Hall. The extra songs included are:
Breathe (In The Air); Time; Arnold Layne featuring Richard Wright;
Dominoes; On An Island; The Blue; Take A Breath; Coming Back To Life; Wot's... Uh The Deal; Wish You Were Here; Comfortably Numb featuring David Bowie; and
Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
The whole thing is an hour long, split into roughly 9-minute parts, and can be seen (all are
Eastern Standard Times) on:
Monday 17th September at 5.00PM;
Sunday 23rd September at 11.00PM;
Monday 24th September at 1.00AM; and
Sunday 30th September at 9.00PM.
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Sample clips available on the DVD page--
If you live in some regions of Europe (see Latest News, Wednesday 12th, below), you may already be the proud owner of the David Gilmour DVD
Remember That Night. If not, you will no doubt be getting it on Monday (Tuesday in North America) and a bit later in some other countries (see the list below).
If you're still not convinced by the great reactions received so far, please check out the sample clips we have on the
DVD page – all in high quality streams, with good renditions of the amazing High Definition masters. As well as a five-minute compilation and a 10-minute EPK, we have clips of the following songs from the Royal Albert Hall for your delectation:
The Blue;
Coming Back To Life;
Shine On You Crazy Diamond;
Take A Breath; and the full version of
Fat Old Sun.
http://www.davidgilmour.com/dvd.htm
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Gilmour's gig hits big screen
By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News
September 14, 2007
David Gilmour's 2006 world tour didn't hit too many markets, but through the magic of DVD and digital streaming fans now can see it.
On Saturday the "guitar and voice of Pink Floyd" will do a live Q&A with fans nationwide via a satellite hook- up to 111 theaters in the U.S. Then
Remember That Night - Live at the Royal Albert Hall will play in its entirety, with a higher-quality stream than you'll get when the DVD appears in stores on Tuesday. Gil- mour will even perform a song live during the broadcast.
He says he likes the notion of the simulcast "because you know as you are listening to it that millions of other people are listening to it at the same time." He answered a few questions exclusively for the
Rocky Mountain News, as well as posing a couple of questions himself.
Rocky: When we last spoke you said you had no appetite for a huge world tour. How did you like the notion of this - limited touring and a DVD release/simulcast for fans who couldn't be there?
Gilmour: This event is a promotional tool - I want people to know that this DVD is out there. I would like to think that people are getting this DVD and they have a great big screen at home, a massive plasma or LCD screen at home and a great 5.1 sound system, and that they are going to invite a few friends around, have a glass of wine and watch the DVD. . . . So this is going some way toward that, doing this in cinemas. Those cinema speakers are often great; they really carry that low end. But I haven't got quite to the point where I envision staying at home in London and doing a concert and having it simulcast to cinemas all over the world live as I am doing that one concert. I haven't managed to persuade myself yet . . . you can't really quite replace that genuine live-ness.
Rocky: You cover (Floyd founder) Syd Barrett's
Dark Globe on the DVD. Why that song?
Gilmour: Dark Globe just came into my mind. Between when we did the Albert Hall show and when we started off on the European outdoor part of this little tour, Syd died . . . It just leapt into my mind that I should do something for Syd on that particular occasion. That was the song that leapt into my mind . . . I didn't go through a list of songs and try to select one. On the record, Syd just throws it off - without seeming to know it too well. And I thought I should do something similar . . . I thought it would be fun to stand up on stage and try it for the first time in front of an audience. What can I say? It was great. It felt great to me. It's got the great line in it as well - 'Won't you miss me, wouldn't you miss me at all?' - that seemed to be an incredibly appropriate thing to be singing about Syd at that particular moment, because I do.
Rocky: Where did you get the notion that Crosby & Nash would work so well with you vocally, both in the studio on
On an Island and in concert?
Gilmour: I went to a Crosby/Nash show here in London, and I asked them if they would consider doing it, because I had a song that I thought would work well with their voices on it. They said, 'Yeah, man, love to, when can we do it?' So it was just one of those very simple moments, again, not planned or thought about for any length of time.
Rocky: Do you consider any of the songs you performed in the theatrical version as your favorites?
Gilmour: Echoes, which we tried to do in '87 on the
Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, and it just didn't seem to work. But on this tour the guys really got it and we did a great performance of it most nights. That really smacked of the old days to me. It felt like it did years and years ago - it was a great experience.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/m ... 07,00.html