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David Gilmour 2025: IMAX Concert Film, Live Album Details, Interview, and a New Studio LP on the Horizon

Photo by Aled Llywelyn/Athena Pictures/Shutterstock
Photo by Aled Llywelyn/Athena Pictures/Shutterstock

Pink Floyd icon David Gilmour is closing 2025 in full stride. A feature-length concert film will hit cinemas and IMAX for a limited engagement, a companion 23-track live album lands the following month, and a new long-form studio interview with Rick Beato pulls back the curtain on Gilmour’s songwriting, tone, and gear. Most tantalizing: fresh comments that he’s actively building toward a new studio album “within the next year or two.”

Key dates at a glance

  • September 17, 2025 – “Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome” (cinemas & IMAX, one-night global event). Shot by longtime collaborator Gavin Elder at Rome’s ancient Circus Maximus, the feature presentation is a 142-minute concert film with audio in Stereo 96/24, 5.1, and Dolby Atmos.

  • October 17, 2025 – “The Luck and Strange Concerts” (live album) + home video. A 2CD/4LP set spanning five cities, with premium editions bundling the film on 2×Blu-ray/3×DVD, Atmos mixes on Blu-ray, a 120-page Polly Samson photo book, and memorabilia.

Inside the Rick Beato studio interview

In a nearly two-hour conversation filmed inside Gilmour’s own studio, Rick Beato and Gilmour go deep on composition, arrangement, and the signal-chain choices that yield his unmistakable vibrato, note spacing, and sustain. Gilmour revisits canonical moments from the Pink Floyd catalogue and his solo work, reacts to archival clips, and walks through the practical interplay of guitars, pedals, and amps that shape his modern live sound. Fans are praising the interview as a rare masterclass: direct, unhurried, and musician-to-musician.

What’s on the big screen

The theatrical/IMAX cut chronicles the opening stretch of the Luck and Strange tour at Circus Maximus. Expect a set that threads recent solo highlights with Floyd touchstones “Time,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” “Sorrow,” “High Hopes,” “Breathe (In the Air)” captured with sweeping crane work and expansive crowd shots. The IMAX presentation is billed as one night only worldwide, with standard cinemas participating the same day.

What’s on the live album

“The Luck and Strange Concerts” assembles 23 performances recorded across Brighton, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Rome. Alongside the Luck and Strange material, the sequencing flows through Floyd classics and special moments like “Between Two Points” with Romany Gilmour. The audio has been co-produced by David Gilmour and Charlie Andrew; the Blu-ray edition features Dolby Atmos and an extras reel (rehearsals, mini-docs, and music videos). For collectors, the Super Deluxe bundles both audio and video formats plus Samson’s 120-page book and tour memorabilia.

The next studio album: Gilmour’s own timeline

Gilmour says he’s actively writing and recording, with “quite a bit of material” already in formative shape. He hopes to release the next album “within the next year or two,” noting he intends to move faster than the long gaps between prior solo releases. Until then, the IMAX event and live set serve as definitive documents of the 2024–25 era sonically meticulous, emotionally resonant, and captured at monument-scale.

Key Takeaways

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