November 25, 1998 GILMOUR: NO RECORD, NO TOUR, NO MILLENNIUM OR ECLIPSE SHOW During an interviewe on BBC World Service's "Pop On The Line" on Sunday, 22 November, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd dealt a final, crushing blow to lingering rumors about a new album, a new tour and a millennium concert. "Well, we haven't made such a plan," Gilmour told fans. "I can categorically tell you there is no plan for a record, no plan for a tour. And we're not doing the 'Millenium Show', we're not doing a Cornish eclipse show." As if this news was not bad enough, Gilmour further set back the hopes of impatient fans, saying, "I *greatly* doubt there we be a new album out by the millennium." "I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious," Gilmour explained. He does, however, take note of musical ideas with a small recorder. "I have a sort of little home studio thing which I saunter about occasionally," he added. Not long ago Gilmour married Polly Sampson, who shares credit with him for many lyrics on Pink Floyd's 1994 release 'The Division Bell.' Gilmour explained further, "[I] have had a couple more children in the last couple of years and so home life is taking up a lot of my time. And my wife is writing a book at the moment and so I'm leaving the space to her as far as work is concerned, mostly at the moment." Sampson's book of short stories, titled "Lying in Bed", should be published in April 1999. Will Gilmour record another solo album someday? "I expect so, but I don't really know when," Gilmour said. "To be honest with you, I haven't actually got any plans." Gilmour also described what he knows of Syd Barrett's health. "He lives in Cambridge, and he is not too bad," said Gilmour. "His mental health is better than it has been for years. he is diabetic, and I think he's rather resistant to taking the right drugs that he's supposed to take for it. And that has now apparently, so I am told, affected his eyesight quite a bit." Gilmour also mentioned that he enjoys listening to Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, the Lemonheads and Elastica, but that he doesn't listen to new music very much. Sunday's BBC interview with Gilmour was interesting for many fans, and contained many small pieces of intriguing Floydian trivia. But many fans were ultimately disappointed; neither the answers nor the questions were what many fans had hoped they might be. Questions about unreleased material--such as the 1970s BBC concerts, the 30-year-old concert filmed by KQED television, and the unreleased Peter Sykes/Max Steuer film "The Committee" for which Pink Floyd recorded a soundtrack for 30 years ago--were not asked at all. Gilmour himself summed up he nature of the interview best: "I'm afraid this is an opportunity to chat, but I don't have any hard information." Thanks to John W.