David Gilmour Working On New Material
The Pink Floyd guitarist’s wife Polly Samson reveals studio activity on her Instagram page
Polly Samson, novelist and the wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has declared in a recent interview that her 77-year-old husband is working on material for a new album.
“Ah, at the moment I’m working with David Gilmour on new songs,” she proclaimed at the end of an interview with the Romanian entertainment site Zile si Nopti. “Promising right?”
Samson has been documenting the sessions, which are taking place at Gilmour‘s personal recording studio in Brighton, England, on her personal Instagram page.
Though no written insight accompanies the candid shots, a look at the pictures does reveal the impressive lot of musicians accompanying him in the studio. Among the players spotted in the photos include pianist Roger Eno, longtime Floyd affiliate Guy Pratt on bass, drummer Adam Betts, who has played with the likes of Goldie, Squarepusher and Pulp, and producer Charlie Andrew, best known for his work with Leeds art rockers alt-J. The couple’s daughter Romany is also on hand as well.
No word of a proper title or release date at press time, but the project would be Gilmour’s first new album since 2015’s Rattle That Lock, though in 2020 he dropped a one-off single “Yes I Have Ghosts” as well as a new Pink Floyd single with Nick Mason called “Hey Hey, Rise Up” in 2022 that did not include their former partner and notorious anti-semite Roger Waters, whose relationship with Gilmour has completely dissolved.
Gilmour recently retweeted a post about a documentary called The Dark Side of Roger Waters, while Samson posted on Elon Musk’s X in February about how the former Floyd bassist was “antisemitic to [his] rotten core” before dismissing him as “a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac,” which Gilmour would re-post with the words “demonstratively true.”
This upcoming work would be the fifth solo album from David Gilmour.
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