David Gilmour says talking about Roger Waters is “boring”

Ask David Gilmour about his new album Luck and Strange, his upcoming solo tour, or the potential sale of Pink Floyd’s catalogue – anything, but his relationship with former bandmate, Roger Waters.

In a recent chat with Rolling Stone, Gilmour says that discussions surrounding Waters have become tiresome, and that he has little desire to speak on a topic he now considers “boring”.

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The pair were on amicable terms back in 2010 when they played a charity show together; Gilmour even made a guest appearance at one of Waters’ The Wall gigs in London.

Asked what had changed between them since that seemingly friendly collaboration, Gilmour replies: “Well, it’s something I’ll talk about one day, but I’m not going to talk about that right now. It’s boring. It’s over.”

“As I said before, he left our pop group when I was in my 30s, and I’m a pretty old chap now, and the relevance of it is not there. I don’t really know his work since. So I don’t have anything to say on the topic.”

With a new album and solo tour on the way (“I have the band ready,” says the musician), Gilmour much prefers to look forward instead. And while he previously called Luck and Strange the “best album” he’s made since The Dark Side of the Moon, prompted on the topic once more, Gilmour says: “It’s a flip statement, really. I mean, it’s not like Dark Side of the Moon is even my favourite album.”

“I think I prefer Wish You Were Here,” he adds. “Anyway, it feels to me like it’s the best thing I’ve done in more or less my living memory, because some of those things feel like they were someone else, back in those eons ago. I was in my 30s when Roger left our pop group and I’m 78.”

Luck and Strange arrives on 6 September via Sony Music. Check out the latest single Dark and Velvet Nights below.