New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Columbia Records) "In 2015
David Gilmour set out to play a series of concerts in historic venues across the world. The following year he became the first performer to play the amphitheatre in Pompeii in front of a live audience since the gladiators in 79AD. It was a return to Pompeii for David, having first performed there in 1971 for Adrian Maben's legendary concert film,
Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii. In Roman times the Pompeii amphitheatre was known as a "Spectaculum" and
David worked with longtime collaborator and maestro of colour and light Marc Brickman to bring the spectacle back to the Spectaculum" - Polly Samson, 2017
On July 7th & 8th 2016,
David Gilmour performed two spectacular shows at the legendary Pompeii Amphitheatre in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, 45 years after he first played there for Adrian Maben's classic film,
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii.
The concerts were the first-ever rock performances played to an audience in the ancient Roman amphitheatre, which was built in 90 BC and entombed in ash when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.
David Gilmour is the only performer to play to an audience in the arena since the time of the gladiators, almost 2,000 years ago.
Speaking about the Pompeii shows
David Gilmour commented "It's a magical place and coming back and seeing the stage and the arena was quite overwhelming. It's a place of ghosts..."
The concert performance film,
David Gilmour Live at Pompeii, was shot in 4k by director Gavin Elder and includes highlights from both shows. The concert is a spectacular audio-visual experience, featuring the famous huge circular cyclorama screen as well as lasers, pyrotechnics and stellar performances from an all-star band.
The film includes songs from throughout David's career including the title tracks of his two most recent No. 1 solo albums: Rattle That Lock and On An Island. Also included are other solo and
Pink Floyd classics such as "Wish You Were Here," "
Comfortably Numb" and "One Of These Days," the only song that was also performed by the band in 1971. Both concerts also saw extraordinary performances of "The Great Gig In The Sky" from "The Dark Side Of The Moon," which
David rarely plays as a solo artist.
David Gilmour - Live At Pompeii will be released world-wide in various formats (listed below) on
September 29, 2017. Fans can pre-order
David Gilmour - Live At Pompeii starting Friday, July 21st here: https://smarturl.it/DGPompeii.
For one night only on
September 13th over 2000 cinemas worldwide will be showing
David Gilmour - Live At Pompeii.
The concert performance film,
David Gilmour Live at Pompeii, will be distributed to cinemas worldwide by Trafalgar Releasing on
September 13, 2017 and will be presented in Dolby Atmos sound.
For details of cinemas taking part in this special one night only event and ticket information visit https://www.davidgilmourcinematickets.com/.
DAVID GILMOUR - LIVE AT POMPEII FORMATS
2 x CD
Standard package - 21 tracks.
CD1 - 74 mins
CD 2 - 74 mins
1 x Blu-ray
Standard package
Pompeii concert 96/24 PCM
Stereo & 96/24 DTS MAA
Pompeii Then & Now Documentary
2 x DVD
Standard package
Pompeii concert
Stereo PCM, 5.1 Dolby Digital, 5.1 DTS
Pompeii Then & Now Documentary
Blu-ray + CD
Deluxe Edition Boxset
2 x CDs,
2 x Blu-rays (special packaging)
South
America 2015 / Wroclaw 2016 / concert footage / tour documentaries, feature length BBC documentary, photo booklet, Pompeii Guide, 4 x postcards & poster.
Vinyl
Pompeii concert on 4 x LPs
2 x gatefold sleeves / poly liner inner sleeves / booklet / download card / slipcase.
DIGITAL DOWNLOADS
HD downloads via portal tbc
CD TRACK LISTING
DVD TRACKLISTING
BLU-RAY TRACKLISTING
Audio produced by
David Gilmour
Mixed by Andy Jackson &
David Gilmour, assisted by Damon Iddins
Live Recording by Damon Iddins
DELUXE CD/BD BOXSET
Bonus BD
Technical specs
Blu-ray
96/24 PCM
Stereo & 96/24 DTS MAA
DVD
Stereo PCM, 5.1 Dolby Digital, 5.1 DTS
