David Gilmour Unveils ‘Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome’ Concert Film and ‘The Luck and Strange Concerts’ Live Album

David Gilmour, photo by Jill Furmanovsky

David Gilmour has announced Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome, a new film capturing the legendary artist’s triumphant return to the stage with last year’s Luck and Strange Tour. Screening in theaters worldwide on Sept. 17 via Sony Music Vision, the concert film will share the excitement of Gilmour’s sold-out seven-week, 21-stop outing with fans unable to attend the historic and highly limited series, which showed the icon poring over his solo catalog and highlights from his time with Pink Floyd. The theatrical release is paired with The Luck and Strange Concerts, a 23-track live album featuring the best performances from the tour.

Gilmour’s 2024 tour supported the release of Luck and Strange, his fifth solo studio album and first since 2015’s Rattle That Lock. The live series marked his first since 2016, and his only planned outing for the foreseeable future. While he initially expressed an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the ’70s,” preferring to incorporate more formative cuts and favorites from his tenure as the group’s principal songwriter and frontman, he ultimately presented setlists that bridged his new standouts like “Black Cat” and “Between Two Points” with classics like “Breathe (In The Air),” “Wish You Were Here” and “Comfortably Numb.”

Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome was filmed at the tour’s kickoff performance in September 2024 by Gavin Elder, Gilmour’s longtime collaborator who also directed David Gilmour Live at Pompeii in 2016. The film will be released to Blu-Ray, DVD and CD formats on October 17, which doubles as the release date for the four LP and two CD packages for The Luck and  Strange Concerts, which is co-produced by the studio album’s production team of Gilmour and Charlie Andrew.

Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome and The Luck and Strange Concerts are available to pre-order now. Watch an advance preview of Gilmour’s treatment of “Sorrow,” from 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason, below, and learn more about the projects at davidgilmour.com.

Get an inside look at Gilmour’s first performance in Los Angeles in eight years here.