The nearly-year-long mystery was revealed on David Gilmour’s blog moments ago: When would he make good on his promise from last summer to join Roger Waters on stage to perform “Comfortably Numb” with former bandmate Roger Waters?
The answer: At tonight’s o2 show in London.
Gilmour’s post says the song will be recorded for posting on “various websites,” but is not intended for an eventual DVD of “The Wall” in the works.
“Look on the bright side: that means you’ll get to see it sooner,” the post reads, before adding tonight’s appearance truly is a one-off.
“David is not repeating his special guest performance at a later occasion, I’m sorry to disappoint those of you with fingers crossed and tickets for later shows.”
Waters joined Gilmour on stage at a charity event last July (“David Gilmour, Roger Waters perform together“). The deal, as it was revealed later, was Gilmour agreed to, in turn, join Waters during one show of his “Wall” tour, to perform “Comfortably Numb.”
“Floydian Slip” turned the upcoming pairing into a contest (“Reunion date contest: The results“), asking people to guess the date of the reunion for a chance to win Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” from 1990. Guess the exact date, and we’d throw in a sealed copy of Classic Rock‘s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”
We’ll be mulling over entries this evening to determine our winner.
