David Gilmour • Live in Gdańsk
Columbia Records 88697344701 DC1
Five 33-RPM 180 g LPs
Originally released in September 2008, Live in Gdańsk is a recording of the final show in Gilmour’s On an Island project, where he played to an audience of 50,000 at the Gdańsk Shipyard. The concert itself consumes four of the five discs, and in addition to numerous old favourites including tracks from Dark Side of the Moon, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, and Comfortably Numb, it contains the song A Great Day for Freedom, which was on Pink Floyd’s final studio album, The Division Bell. Live in Gdańsk is also the final Pink Floyd related recording to feature the late Richard Wright, who died a week prior to the album’s release.
The fifth disc in the set contains three live recordings from Nice and Abbey Road, and a couple of so-called Barn Jams.
Bearing in mind it’s a recording of a live concert, the sound quality is pretty good. Better, in fact, than several studio albums that have been on my platter!
The beautifully packaged boxed set comes with a 20-page colour booklet, a poster, and a download code for an MP3 track, presented as a web pass. This vinyl set is now out of production and I highly recommend it (especially for Pink Floyd fans), so get a copy while you can!