Last night I went to the O2 Arena in London to see Roger Waters perform the Wall. Around the time I booked the tickets (possibly a year ago!), I had heard that David Gilmour would be guesting with Roger on one of the nights. I was skeptical about this, since I’d heard various different stories about the indifference to putting Pink Floyd back together, and also a difficult relationship between the members of the band. However I went to the gig hopeful this may happen, but very quickly forgot about it when the concert started.

It was fantastic – kicking off with a big bang of red lights and pyrotechnics, shortly followed by an aeroplane flying into part of the wall that would gradually be built and completed over the course of the first half of the show! Amazing.

To my shame I wasn’t familiar with the material from the Wall from cover to cover, so there were only one or two tunes that I recognised (and thoroughly loved!), but I was entertained throughout by a fantastic stage show, and I really enjoyed all of the music that was new to me too. It must be said that Roger put on a superb show, and it was really refreshing to hear “Roger is happy for you to take photos, but please make sure the flash is switched off”.

I filmed a couple of the tunes that I knew, firstly Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, and then Comfortably Numb. At this point, the construction of the Wall was complete, with the band playing behind it! Roger was singing the first part of the verse and patrolling the area of stage in front of the wall, and then suddenly, a subtle, but beautiful voice could be heard emanating from an intense shaft of light from the top of the wall. The crowd went nuts. It was him! David!

I had managed to book tickets one row from the back of the tallest part of the Arena, but I was fairly central. Knowing this I took my binoculars and just watched Mr. Gilmour sing and play through them, open-mouthed. He was playing his black Fender Stratocaster with the maple neck – like his signature model that recently came out. On the video you can just see bright light where David is, but with my binoculars I could see him clearly playing his guitar and singing.

Here is the video. I’m very pleased with it – the sound is fantastic! You can also get a sense of the scale of the venue, and importantly, the wall itself. You can also get an idea of how they used it – the video projections were staggering, even from where I was.

Enjoy the video. What an amazing experience!