The Rattle That Lock Tour was a concert tour by English singer and musician

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to support his fourth solo

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, '' Rattle That Lock''. The tour became a commercial success, grossing $47 million and selling 288,997 tickets in 16 shows in the 2015 total. It was the 76th highest grossing of the year, according to '' Pollstar's'' annual year end tour chart. The tour covered 50 performances – 17 more than his On an Island Tour in 2006. The tour is documented on the live release '' Live at Pompeii'' (2017).

Background

The first eight tour dates (in Europe) were announced on 4 March 2015, with two more dates added later. The concerts are spread across six European countries at nine different venues. The dates were planned to coincide with the release of Gilmour's new album. The two new dates were announced on 6 March 2015 at the

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, and were added due to high ticket demand for the three concerts already planned at the venue. On 19 June 2015, a date was announced for a show in

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, on 25 June 2016. Four North American dates were also announced on 16 July 2015, along with more details on the new album, to be released 18 September. Four more North American dates were added on 21 July 2015, in the same venues as the first four. On 26 July 2015, a 'preview show' was added at the Brighton Centre before the start of the main tour. Gilmour announced his first South American tour of five dates on 4 September 2015. Individual new dates were announced periodically until 2 February 2016, when a further 11 dates were added in Europe to take place in summer 2016. Most of the venues on the first European leg of the tour were at Roman

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s. Gilmour also played the

as his only UK venue of the tour. He also played the historic Auditorium Theatre in

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, having last performed there with Pink Floyd in 1972. The touring band is made up of mostly the same musicians who accompanied Gilmour on his On an Island Tour of 2006. These are Phil Manzanera, Guy Pratt, Jon Carin and Steve DiStanislao. Kevin McAlea, who performed with Carin at

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's '' Before the Dawn'' shows in 2014, also played keyboards on the tour. On 24 April 2016 Gilmour and his band played the final night of the year's Teenage Cancer Trust shows. This was Gilmour's first performance since the death of

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three days earlier; as a tribute Gilmour worked a small portion of Prince's " Purple Rain" into "

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", immediately before the closing guitar solo; the stage lights all turned purple during the snippet. This brought the third leg of the tour to a close before new band members were drafted in. When the third leg of the tour ended Gilmour's online outlets announced that Manzanera, Carin and McAlea would all be leaving the tour. Manzanera left due to obligations to recording a new solo album; Carin, to tour with

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in Mexico & Desert Trip. Shortly before the fourth leg Gilmour announced the new musicians for the European tour, they are Chester Kamen on guitar, whom Gilmour performed with as part of

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's band for

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in 1985, replacing Manzanera; Greg Phillinganes on keyboards and vocals, replacing Carin; and Chuck Leavell on organ, vocals and accordion, long time member of

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' touring band and ex-member of

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, replacing McAlea. The new band rehearsed songs not performed previously on the tour, "Dancing Right In Front of Me" and " One of These Days". "One of These Days" hadn't been performed since the last Pink Floyd tour in 1994. Both songs were debuted on the tour during Gilmour's show at

where they replaced " Fat Old Sun" and " Astronomy Domine", respectively. On 25 June 2016 Gilmour performed at Wrocław, Poland in celebration of the city being

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2016. The show saw the live debut of the song "Dancing Right In Front of Me" and the resurrection of "One of These Days", last performed in 1994. The show was broadcast live on Polish television. Gilmour and his band were accompanied by the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who contributed orchestrations to Gilmour's '' Rattle That Lock'' and ''

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'' albums. The orchestra performed on the tracks "5 A.M."; "Rattle That Lock"; "Faces of Stone"; "A Boat Lies Waiting"; "The Blue"; "In Any Tongue" (with cello solo); "High Hopes"; "Dancing Right In Front of Me"; "On an Island"; "The Girl in The Yellow Dress"; "Today" and "Comfortably Numb". On 7 and 8 July 2016 Gilmour performed two shows at the

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where he performed with Pink Floyd in 1971, and filmed '' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii''. The performance on the 7 July was the first performance in the amphitheatre since Pink Floyd played there and the first public performance there since

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, when

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erupted, destroying Pompeii. Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson regularly tweeted about the event using the

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#ReturnToPompeii. Gilmour performed "One of These Days" on both nights – the only song from the set to have been performed by Pink Floyd there in 1971. Gilmour also dropped "Us and Them" from the set and replaced it with " The Great Gig in the Sky" but played earlier in the set (see the setlist details below). The shows were filmed for possible future release. On 31 May 2017, it was announced that Gilmour's new film—''David Gilmour Live At Pompeii''—should hit select cinemas for one night only on 13 September 2017. On 16 July, Gilmour performed at Château de Chantilly, in France. He started the show by asking for a minute of silence to pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack that happened two days before in Nice. He did the same for the shows at the Arena of Nîmes on 20 and 21 July. On the 23 July he performed at Saline Royale, Arc-et-Senans, where construction began in 1775. Unlike the On an Island Tour of 2006 where Gilmour performed the whole of his then-new album in its entirety, the ''Rattle That Lock'' tour saw no performances of "Beauty" or "And Then..." and only saw two performances of "Dancing Right In Front of Me".

Tour dates

Personnel

Legs 1–3

Main band *

–

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acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

classical guitar The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string (music), string instrument with strings made of catgut, gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the ...

, console steel guitar,

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

whistling Whistling, without the use of an artificial whistle, is achieved by creating a small opening with one's lips, usually after applying moisture (licking one's lips or placing water upon them) and then blowing or sucking air through the space. Th ...

on "In Any Tongue" * Phil Manzanera – electric guitars, acoustic guitars, 12-string acoustic guitar, backing vocals * Guy Pratt –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Run Like Hell" * Jon Carin – piano, keyboards, electric guitars,

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or lap slide guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of pla ...

s, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Time" and "Comfortably Numb" * Kevin McAlea – piano, keyboards,

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

* Steve DiStanislao –

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, backing vocals * Theo Travis –

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clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

(5 September – 19 September) *João Mello – saxophones, additional keyboards on "The Blue", high-strung acoustic guitar on "In Any Tongue" (23 September onwards) *Bryan Chambers – backing vocals, additional percussion, lead vocals on "In Any Tongue" *Louise Clare Marshall – backing vocals, additional percussion (except South America) *Lucita Jules – backing vocals (South America and North America only) ;Special guests *

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– harmony vocals on "A Boat Lies Waiting" and "On an Island"; lead and backing vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (23 September, Royal Albert Hall) *

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– harmony vocals on "A Boat Lies Waiting" and "On an Island"; backing vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (23 September, Royal Albert Hall) *Gabriel Gilmour – piano on "In Any Tongue" (25 September, Royal Albert Hall)

Legs 4–5

Main band *David Gilmour – electric guitars, acoustic guitars, classical guitar, console steel guitar, lead vocals,

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on "One of These Days", whistling on "In Any Tongue" * Chester Kamen – electric guitars, acoustic guitars, 12-string acoustic guitar, backing vocals, harmonica on "The Blue" *Guy Pratt – bass guitars, double bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Run Like Hell" * Greg Phillinganes – keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Time" * Chuck Leavell – keyboards, accordion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (Leg 4 only) *Kevin McAlea – keyboards, accordion (Leg 5 only) *Steve DiStanislao – drums, percussion, backing vocals, aeoliphone on "One of These Days" *João Mello – saxophones, clarinet, additional keyboards on "The Blue", high-strung acoustic guitar on "In Any Tongue" *Bryan Chambers – backing vocals, additional percussion, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky", "In Any Tongue" and "Comfortably Numb" (Leg 5) *Lucita Jules – backing vocals, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Comfortably Numb" (Leg 5) *Louise Clare Marshall – backing vocals, additional percussion, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Comfortably Numb" (Leg 5) (certain dates) ;Special guests * Leszek Możdżer – piano on "The Girl in the Yellow Dress" (Wrocław, 25 June 2016) *Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner (Wrocław, 25 June 2016) *

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Background

Tour dates

Personnel

Legs 1–3

Legs 4–5

Notes

References

External links