A live review of David Gilmour's performance at New York City's Madison Square Garden in November 2024.
All it takes is one guitar note piercing through a pitch-black arena — one note dramatically reaching heavenward, as if it’s waking up — to recognize the guitarist. As soon asstruck the introductory high E of “5 A.M.,” with only a soft red light and some even softer synths accompanying him, the packed audience at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Monday cheered.
The evening’s two sets contained only a handful of Seventies Floyd songs — “Time,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Fat Old Sun,” and of course “Comfortably Numb,” among others — but in the context of Gilmour’s newer material, which dwells on the darkest side of the moon, the selections fit his current outlook. Where Pink Floyd’s Seventies oeuvre obsessed on the brutality of the human condition, Gilmour’s latest solo music concerns itself with humanity’s fragility.
For one song, the honor of singing about hopelessness went to another Gilmour, David’s daughter Romany, who played harp and sang lead on “Between Two Points.” The tune is a cover of an arcane dream-pop missive by an even more arcane group, the Montgolfier Brothers, and its lyrics read like a sarcastic advice column: “Just let them walk all over you … Let the life-blood drain away from you/They’re right, you’re wrong.
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