interviews
Guitarist magazine, june 1995
interview with David Gilmour
on the Enigma
februari 1995
"A question that many people who have been scouring the Pink Floyd Newsgroup on the Internet recently will doubtless want to ask David is if he is aware of the so-called Publius Enigma?
"No, I don't know about that, what's that?"
Okay, for David and the folks at home: as soon as TDB was released, the Internet was awash with rumours that the album's cover and musical content wass encoded with clues which would lead the crafty cryptographers among Floyd's fanbase to a "tangible prize". The rumours were started by an anonymous character calling himself Publius. So, for the last year, theories have abounded - some faintly plausible, some frankly ridiculous. Dave?
"I think some peole have got over active imaginations myself!"
Even the site of the cover photographs, our very own Ely, is allegedly at risk from hordes of American Floyd fans intent, it would seem, on excavation.
"Poor farmer!"
So there are no hidden clues musically, lyrically, photographiclly or otherwise on TDB?
"No"
Sure?
"Yeah"
So we can say "Forget it" to Publius?
"Absolutely".
There was meant to be a date on the tour last year when the word "Publius" appeared in lights at the foot of the stage and on the EC video someone scrawls ENIGMA on the rear screen, which would seem to imply that *someone's* up to *something*.
"Not to my knowledge. I don't know, maybe Marc Brickman, who's keen on the Internet and stuff, was playing along. I haven't seen it. I hadn't noticed, really."
We could fax you the details...
"Ooohh, No thanks"
Sorry, Internet chums, we tried. A change of subject would probably be appropriate here... etc etc.
march 1995
