David Gilmour isn’t kicking off his Luck and Strange world tour for another 17 days, but a handful of people at the Neptune Live Music Bar’s open-mic night in East Sussex, England, caught a little sneak preview when he joined his daughter Romany to perform an acoustic rendition of “Wish You Were Here.” “Would you like to come and upstage me?” she asks her father as he walks onto the stage. “Okay, great.”
Gilmour posted a truncated rendition of the performance on his social media accounts. “Very much enjoyed crashing Roamany Gilmour’s gig at the Neptune in Hove this evening after finishing tour rehearsals,” he wrote.
Romany began singing with her father during the early days of the pandemic when the Gilmour family posted a series of homemade Von Trapped Series videos to promote A Theatre For Dreamers, the latest novel by Gilmour’s wife and longtime lyricist, Polly Samson. A few years later, Gilmour asked Romany to duet with him on “Between Two Points” by the Montgolfier Brothers when cutting songs for Luck and Strange.
“She must have heard the song once or twice in her life on our playlists, but she didn’t really know it at all,” Gilmour told Rolling Stone in August. “I just gave her the lyrics on a piece of paper and stuck her in front of her mic. She’s a true pro with the microphone, has been since she was three. And basically the vocal that you hear on that track is her first take all the way. I mean, obviously there’s a tiny bit of repair and stuff going on, but basically that’s what it is.”
She’s slated to join her father for at least a few shows on the Luck and Strange tour. “I haven’t really worked out quite which ones she’ll be able to do,” Gilmour said. “She’s at university studying in London, and so I don’t know that she’ll be able to do it all.”
When Gilmour originally talked about the Luck and Strange tour, he indicated it was unlikely he’d play any songs Pink Floyd released in the Seventies. He’s since had a change of heart. “One has to wake up to reality once in a while,” he said. “I think I will be doing one or two things from that time, but it just seems so long ago. I know people love them, and I love playing them. I’ll be doing ‘Wish You Were Here,’ of course I will. And some of the things that started with me anyway.”
The tour kicks off on September 27 in Rome, Italy. The American leg begins October 25 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. It wraps up with a five-night stand at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
