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In his first public performance in eight years, Gilmour performed Pink Floyd\u2019s Wish You Were Here at an open mic night in Hove. MOJO took a front seat…<\/p>\n
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The Neptune Inn on Hove\u2019s Victoria Terrace, is a traditional old boozer squeezed in beside an alleyway and a beauty parlour. It\u2019s a well-known haven for live music and hosts a weekly open-mic session for veteran musicians and novices alike.<\/p>\n
At the back of the tiny stage stands a frog mascot rotating on a turntable, a spoof of the Beatles Sgt Pepper sleeve and a sign that reads \u201cWhere words fail, music speaks\u201d \u2013 appropriate considering the natural reticence of David Gilmour, the musician getting up tonight for his first public perfomance of his own material since 2016.<\/p>\n
Come 7.30, the pub is getting full, and staff and regulars, which includes Whitfield Crane, the lead singer from grunge-era goons Ugly Kid Joe (yes, he\u2019s local) eye the newcomers \u2013 mainly regulation black T-shirted music biz blokes \u2013 with a degree of curiosity.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Gilmour and his band are rehearsing in the rather dilapidated-looking leisure centre nearby, so it\u2019s a short walk for him to the Neptune. Refreshingly, word hasn\u2019t got out about his planned appearance, and there aren\u2019t any earnest fans queuing outside, clasping copies of Obscured By Clouds<\/em> for him to sign.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pull-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#111111″ header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n But first, Romany Gilmour, his 22-year-old daughter, has plotted up with her acoustic guitar to sing and play. Romany is a big presence on Gilmour\u2019s new album, Luck And Strange, duetting with her dad on the melancholic single Between Two Points. Tonight she sings charming versions of Leonard Cohen\u2019s If It Be Your Will and Joanna Newsom\u2019s This Side Of The Blue and a similarly folky composition of her own, currently called Lilies And Roses \u201cunless anyone can think of a better title.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0It’s only during the song\u2019s closing chords that MOJO notices her old man standing behind us, leaning on his guitar case. As the applause dies down, Romany cheerily invites him to \u201cupstage me\u201d, and Gilmour strolls on, whips out the Martin D-35 and suggests Wish You Were Here \u201cto cheer people up.\u201d<\/p>\n It’s a peerless song elevated by the presence of a second familial voice and the intimate, unfussy nature of the performance. Naturally once the Gilmours reach the poignant line \u201cWe\u2019re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year\u201d, they\u2019ve been joined by a choir of pub regulars, those music-biz blokes and Gilmour\u2019s new guitarist Ben Worsley, whose youthful voice mercifully cuts through the boozy bawling around him at the bar.<\/p>\n Sadly, that five-note guitar figure at the end of Wish You Were Here spells the end of tonight\u2019s performance. Father and daughter leave the stage, and the next act of the night take over, and try to ignore the guitarist from Pink Floyd now parked at a table nearby supping a pint of lager.<\/p>\n \u00a0No showbiz airs and graces; tonight was a lovely, un-starry family affair. The Gilmours came, they saw and, as promised, they cheered us up.<\/p>\n \u201cI have no regrets about it whatsoever\u2026\u201d Speaking exclusively in the latest issue of MOJO, David Gilmour discusses the making of his remarkable new album Luck And Strange<\/i>, Covid survival, fallen Pink Floyd comrades, false nostalgia and *that* Roger Waters tweet. Live in Apple News+ on Tuesday 17th September here<\/a> .<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \n \n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\nRefreshingly there aren\u2019t any earnest fans queuing outside, clasping copies of Obscured By Clouds for him to sign.<\/h2>\n