Pink Floyd leader David Gilmour joined Bombay Bicycle Club onstage Saturday, Dec. 13, for a rendition of "Wish You Were Here." The singer was on hand to bid farewell to London's Earls Court Arena, which is set to be demolished. Pink Floyd played the venue during its 1973 Dark Side of the Moon trek. Gilmour himself played at the arena multiple times over the years, Ultimate Classic Rock notes.
"This man gave me my first guitar," guitarist Jamie MacColl said before Gilmour came out onstage. "[He] was one of the first people to play this venue, and by my count has played here more than 27 times."
Gilmour also joined Bombay Bicycle Club on their tune "Rinse Me Down."
Gilmour and Pink Floyd recently released The Endless River, the band's final album. It is made up of outtakes from their last album, 1994's The Division Bell.
"A suite of mostly instrumental moods and fragments, The Endless River rolls like a requiem through familiar echoes," Rolling Stone wrote, giving the album 3 1/2 out of five stars. "'Skins' is a trip back to the jungle-telegraph sequence in 1968's 'A Saucerful of Secrets'; the piano figure in 'Anisina' is a stately variation on Wright's indelible intro to Dark Side's 'Us and Them.' The effect is inevitably cinematic, a fluid rewind to the Floyd's early film scores."
Gilmour is working on a solo album that he hopes to release in 2015. The singer also wants to tour behind that effort, which will be the follow-up to 2006's On an Island.
"It's coming along very well," he told RS. "There are some sketches that aren't finished, and some of them will be started again. There's a few months' work in it yet. I'm hoping to get it out this following year."
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