{"id":9770,"date":"2020-02-12T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=9770"},"modified":"2020-02-12T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:47:33","slug":"david-gilmour-joins-polly-samson-on-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2020\/02\/david-gilmour-joins-polly-samson-on-book-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gilmour joins Polly Samson on book tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Gilmour will join his writing partner and wife, Polly Samson<\/strong>, in making three appearances to promote Samson’s new book, “A Theatre for Dreamers.”<\/p>\n

Billed as “an evening of words and music,” Gilmour tweeted, “I’ll be performing a few songs, including a new one \u2014 ‘Yes, I Have Ghosts’ \u2014\u00a0 which we wrote together, inspired by the book.”<\/p>\n

Samson has been Gilmour’s go-to lyricist beginning with Pink Floyd’s 1994 album “The Division Bell.”<\/p>\n

Journalist Rosie Boycott<\/strong> will moderate the conversation with Samson at Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, March 30; Town Hall, Birmingham, March 31; and Central Hall Westminster, London, April 2.<\/p>\n

Tickets range from \u00a338-\u00a344 and go on sale 10 a.m. GMT Friday, Feb. 14:<\/p>\n

Birmingham \u2013 http:\/\/bit.ly\/ATFDbham<\/a>
\nManchester \u2013 http:\/\/bit.ly\/ATFDmcr<\/a>
\nLondon \u2013 http:\/\/bit.ly\/ATFDlondon<\/a><\/p>\n

Tickets include a signed first edition of the book; and a photo of Samson and Gilmour taken on the Greek island of Hydra, where the story takes place, signed by them both.<\/p>\n

Bloomsbury Circus<\/strong> will publish “A Theatre for Dreamers” on April 2.<\/p>\n

More details at pollysamson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Gilmour will join his writing partner and wife, Polly Samson, in making three appearances to promote Samson’s new book, “A Theatre for Dreamers.” Billed as “an evening of words and music,” Gilmour tweeted, “I’ll be performing a few songs, including a new one \u2014 ‘Yes, I Have Ghosts’ \u2014\u00a0 which we wrote together, inspired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,6,5,13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-david-gilmour","category-events","category-merchandise","category-personnel","category-polly-samson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9775,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions\/9775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}