Chat
The following fans are in the chatroom:
Details of all chat sessions will be displayed on the calendar, with a CHAT COUNTDOWN shown on all blog pages (over on the right, just beneath the tag cloud) counting down to when the chatroom next opens.
The chatroom is for everyone, so don’t be shy – join in! New visitors are most welcome.
Please make your way through the sections here. They’ll explain everything; from how to register, to how to get started, right through to how to customise your chat experience to suit your preferences.
If you have any questions not answered here, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Please note that David does not visit the chatroom, it’s for fans only.
If you forget your password, request a reminder and it will be e-mailed to you. You can change your e-mail or password at any time.
To register, please go to the registration page.
Step One: Choose a user/member name
Most people use the name that is familiar to everyone at The Blog, so that others can easily recognise them. If you can do this, please do.
Step Two: Wait for your activation e-mail
This will be sent to the address you provided at registration.
Step Three: Follow the instructions
Click the link in your activation e-mail to confirm receipt. Doing so will immediately produce a page containing a completed form showing your e-mail address and activation code. Just Click to Activate and the validation process is complete.
Step Four: Wait for your confirmation e-mail
This will include a reminder of your member name and password, so keep it safe (if you forget your password, you can request it at any time). You might like to change the random mix of letters and numbers to something that’s easier to remember, as you’ll need your password each time you enter the chatroom.
Signing in
Go to the chatroom and enter your user/member name and password.
Read the rules
They’re there for everyone’s benefit, but they’re really not that difficult. If you repeatedly break them, you will no longer be welcome, so please take a moment to read them.
The Lobby
You will find yourself in the main room to start with. This is called the Lobby. As the name suggests, this is where everyone enters – and most choose to stay.
Start chatting
You type what you want to say in the space at the bottom. Hitting the Select button on the right, or your keyboard’s Enter key, will ‘say’ it. What’s said by you, and everyone else, appears in the main space.
Select an emoticon 
Show that you’re joking with a wink, or frown if something is not to your liking.
Change your status 
If you’re on the telephone or cooking dinner, let everyone know by changing your status. Please be aware that you will be timed-out after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Signing out 
When you’ve had enough, sign out to leave the chatroom.
You can tailor your chatroom experience quickly and easily. Here’s how.
Select an avatar
Click Action (top left) and Select Avatar. If you don’t see avatars alongside names in the column on the left, check the Avatars box under the Options menu.
Choose your settings
Under Options, decide if you want to see timestamps, emoticons, private messages and avatars. Change your font size and type, as well as background colour.
Change your font colour 
It makes it easier for everyone if what you say in the chatroom appears in a different colour to what others say, but the choice is yours. Black is the default.
Private messaging
Chat privately with anyone. Double-click the person’s name and a box will pop up on your screen and theirs. Please do not abuse this feature. If someone does not want to chat privately, please respect that. If you do not want to be contacted by anyone in this way, disable Private Messaging under the Options menu. If you are bothered by anyone and wish to report them, please do.
There are two rooms: Lobby and Barn. The Lobby is where people come in. The Barn serves as a welcome place of retreat whenever the Lobby gets too busy, so users are advised to make use of it when need be.
Moving rooms
You’ll notice, in the top left-hand corner of the chat screen, a blue Show Users/Show Rooms button. Click it and you’ll see who’s in the same room as you. Click it again (the text on the button will change to Show Rooms), and you’ll see the two available rooms: Lobby and Barn. How many people are in each room is shown alongside the room name in brackets. Either double-click the room of your choice, or right-click and select Join Room, to enter.
Finding friends
Under the Users menu, you can see at a glance who is in the two rooms, so that you may join your friends with ease. If you’re in the Barn, you will not see who has entered or left the Lobby, so this comes in quite handy.
Important information
Please be sensible when chatting. Do not reveal too much private information; you do not know how it may be used by others and can never be too careful about your online security.
For your added peace of mind, please also know that all chatroom activity is logged as a measure designed to cover everybody in the event of any disagreements (although, as we’re all such a nice bunch, we never have any).
Dave should record the Barn Jam sessions.
Big fan from Brazil wonders when we will have the chance to see you live again! Come to Brazil! We love you!
Yes David,
When will you come to Brasil? We do not only want Roger. We would like you too! Even if you do a tour maybe 1 night in Buenos Aires, 1 Night in Sao Paulo, 1 Night in wherever would cover most of South America!
I am in Sao Paulo they say one of the largest cities in the world!
Blessings!
I can´t sign in.
I use my user name, and password, but it also asks me for a room password. What is that?
Thanks.
This is explained above under Lock-ins.
Sorry for the confusion.
David Gilmour is the best guitarist, song writer and musician.
Dear Mr. David Gilmour,
Happy Birthday sir. I just want to write you a Happy Bithday greeting and to say Thank You for the music of PINK FLOYD and your solo albums are real good too.
R.I.P. Syd, Rick and Andy.
Happy Birthday to you sir. Peace.
Gilmour, please come to Brazil! Waters will make his concert ‘The Wall’ in Rio de Janeiro, and its appearance will be wonderful! Ensure the full joy of their fans, come to Rio, will visit Brazil!
David Gilmour is so lovely. I love him.
Y a chile cuando, por favooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor.
Brazilian fans are moving into Facebook to invite Sir David to come.
Thanks.
Please David, come to Brasil. We wait for you. I love you.
Come to SÃO PAULO.
David Gilmour o melhor guitarrista que o Rock já teve.
Pena que não vem para o Brazil.
Um abraço
Valeu
Brazil! Please! Is in the dark side of the earth… Come here please!
David, please come to Mexico, you don’t know how many fans you have here, we would love to have you here, pleeaaaase!!! I would go anywhere just to see you, so please make a new tour or concert, I will be there!!
Come back to Brazil ….. we love you David!
I wish I could be in your concert… one day, in Brazil.
The best guitar man ever…
I’ve just seen the Floyd’s flying pig on the opening ceremony to the Olympic games. As The Pig faded from view, Big Ben came into view but the music was from Time!!!!
ash
After the Olympic cauldron was lit, a great fireworks display began and was accompanied by Eclipse!!!!
What a great end to the opening ceremony.
ash
I want to see David Gilmour playing in Brazil.
Hello Mr. Gilmour, greetings from Sonora, México.
Just want to tell you that I’m one of your greatest admirers, well, at least at México and that I hope can see you in live some day.
Kind Regards.
David, we know that the distance makes it very difficult. But do not let the Brazilian fans not have the chance to see a show of yours. Look at this blog! Many fans of Brazil is not? A hug.
The other day I watched the DVD of Pink Floyd’s “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” concert in 1987.
I have been a Pink Floyd fan since I was first exposed to them at age 16. Over the years, Pink Floyd carried me through my dark hours. They were always, and continue to be, one of the artists on my list to go to when I have shit to sort out.
Even though their music was so important to my survival when I was younger and my evolution in this life, I had no idea who any of the band members were (except Roger Waters). So, when I watched the “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” show, I was struck by the lead singer’s aura. I, incorrectly, assumed that he was not an original (or essentially original) member of the band. All of my favorite artists/bands seem to have left this world, hence the assumption. So I was very puzzled as to why he seemed so incredibly in tune with everything. It was as if he was breathing the show, he was the source of the show’s life, he was THE creator of the lyrics and music.
He seemed far too conscious of every little detail, every little element, that participated in the show and the rest of the bandmates trusted his direction what seemed to be far too implicitly. It seemed as if he, and he alone, was orchestrating the event moment by moment, with complete precision and utter awareness. He was hyper conscious of exactly the sounds and effects he was sending out to the audience and in turn, the response those sounds elicited from the audience. He knew exactly what kind of experience he wanted to create, for himself and for the listeners. And he created that experience.
I watched spellbound. I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Here was a being who clearly existed in multiple dimensions simultaneously, and knew he was existing in multiple dimensions simultaneously. You cannot be that aware and not be aware that you’re that aware.
And when he smiled… His whole being smiled. A pure, unconditional, beautifully explosive smile radiating with love and beauty and joy for the world. The world he created and gifted to whomever wandered through, whether at the live show or many years later through a DVD.
There are many beautiful artists I admire (The Beatles, Phish, The Grateful Dead, etc). Artists who intrepidly navigate this human world to remind us of who we truly are, who ignite a spark of our divinity and help us rise above the mud and trenches we find ourselves in. But David Gilmour, I cannot help but see him as far above any other now.
Thank you, David Gilmour, for being, for gifting yourself to the world, for allowing us to see the authentic expression of you. And thank you for carrying me through not only my darkest experiences but also my most awakening.
Please! Please! Please! Come to Russia!
Come to Brazil to show his music, we’re expecting you!!
Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!Brazil!
How can a request like that be denied?
It’s such a pretty, pretty, please!
Best one ever.
david is my hero on guitar, his first solo cd gets no airplay but to me the song raise my rent is what it sounds like to be a crying guitar and comfortably numb is still great. also everything he and pink floyd have done are great.
well, that is it for now.
jer
Mister Gilmour, please come to México before you die.
Good new year.
Alejandro Hdez. Galicia.
Dear David Gilmour,
though as a keyboarder I feel Rick Wright to be my musical father (and his death had a strong emotional parallel to my real father’s death in 2004), there is no sequence or part of music, no other playing of any instrument in the world, that touches me stronger than your solo on On an Island on the Gdansk record. I believe to feel any tone, hopefully the way you meant it. It is stronger than anything and I’ve cried many times when hearing it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Hello David, I do not know if you will read these words, my name is José Oscar, I live in a small town in Brazil. For more than 30 years I’m your fan, I always liked your work and Pink Floyd. My dream is to watch your show and I hope you come to Brazil and give us the joy of being able to watch you closely.
Thank you.
José Oscar Davanso.
You know how we were talking about Oscar Pistorius in chat the other day? You’ve no doubt all noticed the story is still all over the news.
My intuition was that he was guilty. Now I’m feeling quite sorry for him.
He’s been in court the past two days not for trial yet, only the bail decision. It’s as if he is being tried right now and in full glare of the public, loads of evidence is being discussed in public and the spin on it very negative.
I remember some of us (or was it just me) thought it must be murder not a mistake because she was shot several times. We also said at some later discussion that if we woke to the sound of burglars, we’d shoot, emptying the bullet chamber, and ask questions later. Looks well if that is indeed what happened to Oscar and his girlfriend.
The damning reports seem to be weighted by what the neighbours are saying about arguments overheard. Yet his friends and family say he loved her very much and was about to ask her to marry him.
He really does appear to be very emotional about it all.
Imagine the horror of it having been a genuine accident and how he must be feeling about the loss of his love and all this prosecution.
Oh dear.
ash
I had a dream (again) that I was setting up a concert for you to have… somewhere small and quaint, more like a personal party. I was running around and showed up early to see the “bleachers” filled with all these old people and it occurred to me that YES we are old! (Us original fans anyway…)
I’ll always love you, I just know we’re star-crossed lovers, even if it’s in our next life.
My Best to you Dave, and keep visiting my dreams… (the concerts are super cool!)
Love, SuZenBe~
Hello Sir David Gilmour,
It is an immense pleasure to write something that you possibly will read.
The songs created by you, are magnificent, splendid, rich musically.
I wish you much health to continue writing and performing for ever.
Like all other comments, please come to Brazil for a single show, you have many fans here.
Cheers and long life,
Hanauer Paulo – Brazil – Minas Gerais
Can anyone tell me if Dave Gilmour will tour Australia again?
Unfortunately there are no plans to tour anywhere at this time. Sorry about that.
Tanti auguri dall’Italia David, la tua chitarra, la tua musica, la vostra musica, mi hanno accompagnato e tenuto compagnia per tanti anni lungo il mio personale percorso, e continuano a farlo ancora oggi che ho passato il testimone ai miei figli. E’ un vero piacere oltre a farti gli auguri, poterti ringraziare per questo, Buon Compleanno.
Roberto
Joyeux Anniversaire Mr. GILMOUR. Je vous adore…
Quand venez vous à Valbonne en France du côté de Nice.
C’est un petit village que j’en suis sûre vous plaira…
A bientôt et je vous attends….
Happy birthday David!!!!!! As you can see, not only would I like to see you here in Brazil, look at the amount of comments … Hug and good health to you.
Hug for you too, Fed.
CUANDO VIENES A CHILE DAVID GILMOUR!!!! TE QUEREMOS… SOY UN FIEL SEGUIDOR DE TU MÚSICA…
SALUDOS DESDE CHILE Y GRACIAS POR TODO…
Dave! Check out how many Brazil invitations you received above since my first post back in January 2012! You are a LEGEND here in Brazil. Believe me, if you come, you will have a fabulous time! Please come!
Amo i PF soprattutto per il tuo sound e per quello che con Rick musicalmente avete ideato. Grazie David per quello che sei e per quello che fai! Buona vita a te e alla tua famiglia.
Francesco ’78