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Setlist:
Speak To Me
Breathe
Time
Breathe (Reprise)
Castellorizon
On an Island
The Blue
Red Sky at Night
This Heaven
Then I Close My Eyes
Smile, Take a Breath
A Pocketful of Stones
Where We Start
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Wot's... Uh The Deal
Astronomy Domine
Fat Old Sun
High Hopes
Echoes
Wish You Were Here
A Great Day For Freedom
Comfortably Numb.
Release date: 15 September 2008 (Europe), 16 September 2008 (North America).
Available formats:
- Two-disc version: Two CDs. Full tracklisting and packaging details to follow.
- Three-disc version: Two CDs, one DVD. DVD includes 114 minutes of concert footage from Gdansk, plus a 36-minute documentary. The tracks included on the DVD are as follows: the complete 'On an Island' album, 'A Great Day For Freedom', 'Astronomy Domine', 'Comfortably Numb', 'Echoes' and 'High Hopes'. Full tracklisting and packaging details to follow.
- Four-disc version: As above. Also includes a second DVD with a 5.1 surround-sound mix of the 'On an Island' album, three new Barn jams and the following audio-visual tracks: 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', 'Wearing The Inside Out' and 'Comfortably Numb' (from the Mermaid Theatre), 'On an Island' and 'High Hopes' (from the AOL Sessions) and 'The Blue', 'Take a Breath' and 'Echoes' (from Live from Abbey Road). Packaged in a gatefold card sleeve with a 12-page booklet. Full tracklisting to follow.
- Five-disc version: Details coming soon. Full tracklisting and packaging details to follow.
- Five-disc vinyl version: Five LPs. Full tracklisting and packaging details to follow.
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Facts about the concert and what it commemorated:
Gdansk was the final show of the 'On an Island' tour: 26 August 2006. It was also David's first ever performance in Poland.
It marked the 26th anniversary of the founding of Solidarity, the inspirational trade union.
Solidarity was founded in the Gdansk shipyard in September 1980, after strikes the previous month by shipyard workers - the first successful strike in the history of the USSR.
David was invited to perform in Gdansk by Poland's former President and Solidarity leader, Lech Walesa, and the Mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz.
Gdansk is the sixth-largest city in Poland, as well as the country's maritime capital.
The Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by Polish composer, Zbigniew Preisner.
Polish pianist, Leszek Mozdzer, also joined David and the band onstage at the Gdansk show.
All of the songs from David's 'On an Island' album featured orchestral accompaniment, as well as 'A Great Day For Freedom', 'Comfortably Numb' and 'High Hopes'.
The arrangements on the Pink Floyd tracks are by the late Michael Kamen.
