David Gilmour performed his first live gig in four years at an East Sussex pub’s open mic night yesterday (September 9) – check out footage below.
The former Pink Floyd guitarist and singer performed alongside his daughter Romany Gilmour at The Neptune Live Music Bar in Hove, East Sussex.
The musician’s last public gig was the 2020 tribute concert for Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green at the London Palladium, according to concert archives.
Gilmour posted to X last night that he “very much enjoyed crashing” his daughter’s gig at the pub “after finishing tour rehearsals”.
In an accompanying video, Romany Gilmour can be heard asked her dad if he wants to “come and upstage me”, before they performed Pink Floyd’s 1975 track ‘Wish You Were Here’ together.
Check out footage of the performance below.
Very much enjoyed crashing @GilmourRomany’s gig at the Neptune in Hove this evening after finishing tour rehearsals… pic.twitter.com/9FxlX2YMIu
— David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) September 9, 2024
The Neptune Live Music Bar also posted to Instagram thanking Romany and David for an “electrifying evening”.
In 2022, Gilmour put his Hove home up for sale, and as of that year reportedly spends most of his time living on a farm in Wisborough Green, near Horsham.
The performance comes after Gilmour released his first album of new material in nine years last weekend, titled ‘Luck and Strange’.
Romany Gilmour sings, plays the harp and appears on lead vocals on ‘Between Two Points’ and ‘Yes, I Have Ghosts’. His son Gabriel Gilmour also provide backing vocals.
The LP was recorded over five months in Brighton and London. His wife – author and lyricist Polly Sampson – previously documented Gilmour’s studio visits and shared the photos on her personal Instagram.
Speaking about working with his family in a press release, Gilmour said: “Polly and I have been writing together for over thirty years and the Von Trapped live streams showed the great blend of Romany’s voice and harp-playing and that led us into a feeling of discarding some of the past that I’d felt bound to and that I could throw those rules out and do whatever I felt like doing, and that has been such a joy.”
Gilmour also recently announced additional shows in Los Angeles and New York for his ‘Luck And Strange’ shows. Visit here to purchase tickets for the US, here for UK tickets and here for tickets to the Rome residency.