DAVID GILMOUR – RATTLE THAT LOCK

David Gilmour To Release New Album, “Rattle That Lock” Friday, September 18, 2015.

David Gilmour has announced that his new solo album Rattle That Lock will be released worldwide on Friday, September 18, 2015 on Columbia Records. The album will be available for preorder and the first single, also titled “Rattle That Lock” will be released on Friday, July 17, 2015.

Additionally David Gilmour’s first North American dates in ten years were announced today. The “David Gilmour Live 2016? concert appearances will take place in March & April with stops in Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago and New York. Ticket buyers will be among the first to receive the new album, as every ticket purchased online will include a Rattle That Lock CD.

The “Live 2016? appearances will be David Gilmour’s first live concert dates since the “On An Island” tour in 2006, and will follow his UK and European tour this September/October. All tickets for the North American Tour dates go on sale Friday, July 17, 2015

March 24, 2016 – Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles
March, 31 2016 – Air Canada Center, Toronto
April 8, 2016 – United Center, Chicago
April 11, 2016 – Madison Square Garden, New York

Rattle That Lock is David Gilmour’s fourth solo album and follows his 2006 #1 in the UK record On An Island. The primary lyricist for the new album is Gilmour’s long-term writing partner, Polly Samson, and it is co-produced by David Gilmour and Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera. Rattle That Lock’s striking cover has been art directed by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation under the creative directorship of Aubrey Powell from Hipgnosis.

DAVID GILMOUR – RATTLE THAT LOCK

Label: Columbia Records
Release date: 18 September 2015

RATTLE THAT LOCK tracklisting:

5 A.M. (Gilmour)
Rattle That Lock (Gilmour/Samson/Boumendil)
Faces Of Stones (Gilmour)
A Boat Lies Waiting (Gilmour/Samson)
Dancing Right In Front Of Me (Gilmour)
In Any Tongue (Gilmour/Samson)
Beauty (Gilmour)
The Girl In The Yellow Dress (Gilmour/Samson)
Today (Gilmour/Samson)
And Then…..(Gilmour)

The title track, “Rattle That Lock”, will be heard for the first time on BBC Radio 2 in the UK on Friday, July 17 and will be available immediately to download and stream worldwide. The song begins with the four notes, created by Michael Boumendil, which precede announcements at French SNCF railway stations which Gilmour recorded on his iPhone at Aix-en-Prevence station. Samson’s lyrics are inspired by Book II of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, which is also featured in her recent acclaimed novel, The Kindness. The single also features The Liberty Choir and singers Mica Paris and Louise Marshall.

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Just listened to the new song. I liked it.

Thanks so much tbomike and Roger! Just saw this post today and managed to get 2 tix for the Toronto show. Loved the On an Island cd and show in 06. Looking forward to the new cd and show! Thanks again. 😉

Thanks! I'm going to give his first solo album There's No Way Out of Here a spin this weekend. It was part of a very "enlightening" experience I had driving from Denver to Omaha in 1981…

I grabbed 2 for the MSG show. A long way out (4/16), but I think it will make for a fun time.

Wonder what Roger Waters is up to these days....

I was on vacation and missed this, and Chicago sold out already - hoping they add a second show............ saw him last time at a small place when he did 'On an Island'.............. 🙁

wouldn't it just be wonderful if David got together with the other member(s) of Floyd and did a massive final Pink Floyd tour...with or without Waters. It would give those who were never fortunate enough to see them a chance. I saw the Dark Side lineup with Waters and the later lineup without and they were both the greatest shows ever. I wonder if the time would ever be right for them. The Eagles managed to mend their differences along with a few other great bands. It would be right up there with the greatest tours ever and I'm sure break all kinds of records.I think its possible...but of course I also thought Dickey showing up with the Allman Brothers was a possibility too.

I was on vacation and missed this, and Chicago sold out already - hoping they add a second show............ saw him last time at a small place when he did 'On an Island'.............. 🙁

There was little time between announcing these shows and on sale, 24 hours or less, I think. I only lucked out with tickets cause I dropped in here.

UPDATE 7/21: David Gilmour has added four more dates due to "phenomenal demand." See the newly added dates and ticking info below.
Not only will David Gilmour release a new album, Rattle That Lock, on September 18, but he's also revealed he will play four North American shows in 2016. Fans in Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago and NYC will have a chance to see the guitarist on his first North American tour since 2006.

Gilmour's brief North American tour begins March 24 at the Hollywood Bowl in L.A. and will be followed by a visit to Toronto's Air Canada Center on March 31. Then, David heads to Chicago's United Center on April 8 before finishing the quick jaunt at Madison Square Garden in New York City on April 11. Tickets for all four shows go up for grabs tomorrow, July 17. Those purchasing tickets will receive a free copy of Rattle That Lock on CD.

Today we've learned Rattle That Lock is a 10-track album which contains lyrics written by Polly Samson - David's wife. The title track and first single will be premiered tomorrow morning on BBC2. Gilmour co-produced the album with longtime collaborator Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music fame. Manzanera also helped produced last year's surprise Pink Floyd LP, The Endless River.

David Gilmour Tour Dates (new dates in bold)

3/24/16 - Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles, CA (On- Sale 7/17 12 p.m. PT)
3/25/16 - Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles, CA (Tickets on sale 7/27 at 10 a.m. PT)
3/31/16 - Air Canada Centre - Toronto, ON (On-Sale 7/17 10 a.m. ET)
4/01/16 - Air Canada Centre - Toronto, ON (Tickets on sale 7/27 at 10 a.m. ET)
4/04/16 - United Center - Chicago, IL (Tickets on sale 7/27 at 10 a.m. CT)
4/08/16 - United Center - Chicago, IL (On-Sale 7/17 12 p.m. CT)
4/11/16 - Madison Square Garden - New York, NY (On-Sale 7/17 10 a.m. ET)
4/12/16 - Madison Square Garden - New York, NY (Tickets on sale 7/27 at 10 a.m. ET)

Already have a Toronto ticket for night one. Was wondering if it would be worth getting a ticket for the second night also.

Wonder what Roger Waters is up to these days....

Ahhh, now I know:

A new solo album isn’t the only project Roger Waters has in the works.

The Pink Floyd co-founder seems fairly far along with his first album of new material in more than 20 years — at least according to Haaretz correspondent Gideon Levy, who spent two days as a guest in Waters’ home while listening to portions of the upcoming LP and discussing a wide range of subjects, from Waters’ outspoken Middle Eastern politics to the prospect of another Floyd reunion. While the article’s short on specific information regarding the next Waters record, Levy did share a few new details.

According to the article, Waters is “in the process of writing an autobiography,” and — presumably in conjunction with the new album — he also “plans to go on another world tour next year.” Noting that “everything Waters has written in the last few years has a political, mainly antiwar, aspect to it,” Levy describes one song in particular that references the terrorist attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo. This jibes with what Waters was saying as far back as 2012, when he suggested the LP might be titled Heartland and said it would contain at least one track touching on religious extremism.

Unsurprisingly, Waters remains intransigent on the subject of a reunion with his surviving Pink Floyd bandmates, saying “of course” the group is over.

“People grow apart, you know. We were four different people – well, after Syd went crazy and then David joined the group, and then there were four of us – and we’re very different people,” he explained. “I made one friend in the group, who’s Nick Mason; I was never really that close to Rick Wright and David Gilmour, and we grew apart philosophically and politically – and even musically. And David and I started to really butt heads after Dark Side of the Moon. There was a lot of this going on all the way through Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, and The Final Cut. So it became the only thing to do, for me to stop doing it.”

Those conflicts don’t color Waters’ feelings regarding the band’s best work, however, and before the new album, book, or tour come to pass, fans can look forward to the release of Roger Waters The Wall, a concert film due in theaters next month.

Read More: Roger Waters Is Planning a 2016 Tour, Writing His Memoirs | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-2016-tour/?trackback=tsmclip

looking forward to this.

a new waters solo album would be cool too but he gets a bit too wordy in the lyrics of his solo stuff