David Gilnor just released a new album, Luck and strangenessHe's about to embark on his first tour since 2016 — and as with any future plans for his career, he's taking it one day at a time. Could this be his last tour? “Well, it's obviously,” he tells Andy Green in an interview featured on our new episode. Rolling Stone Music Now Gielnor talks about death on the new album, which he co-wrote with his wife Polly Samson, and he is acutely aware that we have already lost many musicians of his generation. “I’m still here,” he says with a laugh.
Elsewhere in the interview, Gilnor explains the process of making the new album, explains why he’s tired of the drama with former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters, and much more. To listen to the full episode, head here for your podcast provider of choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or hit the play button above. Below are some highlights, or read the full transcript.
Gilnor will play at New York's Madison Square Garden on US presidential election night – but the schedule was far from intended“I wish I had known about Election Night before we booked these dates,” he says. “And I think I would have taken the day off that day. But you know, you Americans have to do what you have to do! Elections are your business. We just had an election here.” [in the U.K.] “I think I like the idea of governments being run by mature people, and in Britain I think we've moved a little bit in that direction, and we'll see how things go there.”
Gilnor never considered for a moment the possibility of making a Pink Floyd biopic.“I don’t know anything about it,” he says. “Nobody really suggested it. If someone wanted to do a song about Pink Floyd, I can’t imagine how they would do it. I don’t know what I would say at that moment if it came to my mind. But it didn’t happen.”
He is keen to sell Floyd's catalogue.“Getting rid of the decision-making and arguments about continuing the business is my dream,” he says. “I’m not interested in this financially. I’m just interested in getting out of the mud bath I’ve been in for so long.”
His conflicts with Roger Waters are “boring”. “It’s something I’ll talk about one day, but I’m not going to talk about it now,” he says. “It’s boring. It’s over. As I said before, he left our band when I was in my 30s and I’m a very old man now… It seems completely irrelevant to me now… People talk about ‘the battle,’ but to me, it’s a one-way thing that’s been going on since he left, with varying levels of intensity.”
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