Video: Pink Floyd Icon David Gilmour Plays To 50,000 At The Historic Gdańsk Shipyard

David Gilmour’s full Live in Gdańsk concert is streaming now, the final show of his 2006 On an Island Tour, played to a crowd of 50,000 at the Gdańsk Shipyard to mark the founding of the Solidarity trade union. Gilmour performed the entire ‘On an Island’ album that night, backed by the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Zbigniew Preisner, with Leszek Możdżer featured on piano. The concert carries real historical weight as the last Pink Floyd-related recording to feature Richard Wright, who died in September 2008, and it arrived roughly a month after the death of Syd Barrett. The set reaches beyond the album into Pink Floyd territory with “Astronomy Domine,” “High Hopes,” a towering “Echoes,” and a closing “Comfortably Numb.” Gilmour’s guitar work is spellbinding throughout, a master at the absolute height of his expressive powers.