Collective celebrating music of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour head to city

Featuring an all-star band of players, The Gilmour Project is a new show celebrating the David Gilmour years of Pink Floyd and his solo highlights.

Met with a positive reception across the United States last year, where the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s masterwork The Dark Side of the Moon was celebrated, the show is now heading to the UK for the very first time.

Comprising Jeff Pevar (lead guitar with, among others, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joe Cocker, Ray Charles and Bette Midler), Kasim Sulton (bass and vocals with Todd Rundgren and Meatloaf), Prairie Prince (co-founder of The Tubes, original drummer with Journey, drums with Todd Rundgren), Mark Karan (guitar and vocals with Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead), Scott Guberman (keyboard and vocals with Phil Lesh & Friends), The Gilmour Project brings together these esteemed players to explore the Gilmour-years of the Pink Floyd catalogue in all their complexity, alongside notable highlights from Gilmour’s own solo canon.

The collective quickly gained a reputation for flipping the ‘tribute band’ script on its head, with exploratory performances of iconic and deep-cut Pink Floyd classics, David Gilmour-centric and solo compositions, and pulling other surprise classic rock masterpieces out of their hats.

Their version of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill, for example, appeared in their sets weeks ahead of its Stranger Things-buoyed resurgence to the top of the charts.

Their original multimedia, ‘Floydian’ spectacle eschewed poaching Floyd/Gilmour production assets and imagery – relying instead on visuals created by acclaimed lighting designer Hans Shoop.

Catch the show at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on Saturday, February 17. Tickets, priced £33, £45 and £56, are available from cornex.co.uk.