Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour says there’s ‘no possible way’ he’d perform with Roger Waters again

<figure><img src=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-10-20/Getty_DavidGilmour_102025.jpg” alt=””><figcaption>English singer David Gilmour performs in concert at Circo Massimo on july 02, 2016 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Roberto Panucci/Corbis via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><strong>Pink Floyd</strong> fans shouldn’t hold out hope that <strong>David Gilmour</strong> and <strong>Roger Waters</strong>&nbsp;will settle their differences enough to&nbsp;perform together again.</span></p><p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>In an interview with </span><a href=”https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interviews/david-gilmour-i-am-never-performing-with-roger-waters-again/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><em><span class=”s1″>The Telegraph</span></em></a><span class=”s1″>, Gilmour and his wife,&nbsp;<strong>Polly Samson</strong>, discussed their public comments about Waters, and Gilmour put an end to any speculation that he may one day work with Waters again.</span></p><p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>In February 2023, Samson called out Waters on </span><a href=”https://x.com/PollySamson/status/1622513762602205184?s=20&amp;t=DYif274gXBIF4_raGup_6Q” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”><span class=”s1″>X</span></a><span class=”s1″> over his pro-<strong>Vladimir&nbsp;Putin</strong> comments. She wrote that&nbsp;Waters was “anti-Semitic to your rotten core” and called him “a Putin apologist,” among other things. Gilmour backed her by&nbsp;retweeting the post and commenting, “every word demonstrably true.”</span></p><p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>In the interview&nbsp;with&nbsp;</span><em><span class=”s1″>The Telegraph, </span></em><span class=”s1″>Samson</span><em><span class=”s1″>&nbsp;</span></em><span class=”s1”>explained why she was so vocal,&nbsp;saying it was “because Pink Floyd are quite a faceless band.”</span></p><p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>“Everywhere I went, there’s a chance that people thought I was married to the one who said things like that. And it wasn’t a great feeling,” she said. “If they knew you’re married to someone from Pink Floyd, half the time people were giving me quite strange looks and it was really uncomfortable and I just wanted to draw a line and make it clear that these were not views held by me or the person I was married to.”</span></p><p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Both Samson and Gilmour said their opinion on Waters hasn’t changed. Gilmour was then asked if&nbsp;there was anything that would need to happen for him to perform with Waters again, and Gilmour shut that down.</span></p><p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>”Nothing,” he said. “There is no possible way that I would do that.”</span></p><p>Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.</p>