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Friday, 23 October 2009 |
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Our sincere condolences to the Waters family with the sad passing of Mary Duncan Waters on October 14th, aged 96. She was mother of John and Roger, grandmother to Harry, India and Jack, and great-grandmother to Oscar. She passed away peacefully, and is remembered with great affection by all who knew her.
Warren Dosanjh, who grew up in Cambridge alongside Roger and Syd (and runs walking tours of Cambridge), knew Mary Waters in the early 60s. "She was a strong supporter of CND and the Labour Party. Like many others I had grown up in a working class left-wing family. Like many other young people then, I wanted to make my voice felt in the outside world, so I joined the Young Socialists. My parent's house had as far as I can remember always been a Labour committee room where they appraised the the fight on a General Election day. And, from when I could first ride a bike, I had always been involved in the collecting of poll station predictions and bringing them speedily back to my home. Mrs Waters lived in Rock Road then and for the rest of her life. This is where I regularly went for local Socialist meetings to talk about canvassing,leafleting, and the support of local candidates and visiting Labour MPs.
"She was always welcoming and hospitable - she made you feel at home. She stood for old-fashioned values, equality, and justice. What nowadays Blairites refer to as 'Old Labour'. She, like so many others, was instrumental in teaching me the merits of reasoned discussion and not anarchy. It hasn't always worked, but I'd like to think that she played a little part in pushing me in the right direction. Who knows? A very nice lady."
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Written by Matt
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
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 Our hearty congratulations to Jon Carin, who today celebrates his 45th birthday (Wednesday, October 21st).
The talented multi-instrumentalist has been a key part of the Pink Floyd operation since 1985, and more recently toured with David Gilmour (on his On An Island tour), and Roger Waters (on his Dark Side Of The Moon tour). For those who might have missed it, or want another chance to read it, check out our extensive and exclusive interview with Jon from August 2007. It's full of fascinating insights into his life and work with various top musicians, including (of course) David, Roger, and Pink Floyd!
With the current lull in activity from the above, Jon has been keeping himself busy, and recently with GE Smith produced an album for GE's wife. Taylor Barton. More details, and track samples, from Amazon or iTunes.
Have a great day, Jon - and many happy returns!
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Monday, 19 October 2009 |
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 Within our Art Gallery section, you will find various contributions from talented members of the Brain Damage community, who have a particular artistic flair. As with any art, not all of what you'll find in here might be to your taste, but all of it has been crafted with a lot of effort and dedication, and above all, a respect for Pink Floyd and its constituent past and present members.
The latest two submissions are now available for you to see - the first of these, a really nice pair of Syd Barrett portraits, can be seen here, and the second is a very impressive set of tattoos - shown here - worn by a Floyd fan spotted out and about recently!
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Sunday, 18 October 2009 |
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 Further to our previous story about Nick Mason's participation in one of the fund-raising efforts of this year's BBC Children In Need charity campaign, we have full information for you now of the release details, how you can buy the album and single, and how you can hear a sneak preview of the track that Nick not just drums on, but makes a rare vocal performance on too!
Nick was amongst the stars who assembled at London's legendary Abbey Road Studios on September 7th to help record a special version of the Beatles classic, All You Need Is Love, which will be used on the forthcoming Bandaged Together album that will be raising money for Children In Need.
We now know that the Bandaged Together album will be released on November 9th, 2009, and can be pre-ordered from November 1st at www.CharityGoods.com. It will also be available in all the main Tesco stores following this release date.
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Friday, 16 October 2009 |
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 In a Q&A session which followed The Flaming Lips' brief appearance at the Ricardo Montalbán Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles on Thursday night (October 15th), as a free launch event for their new album "Embryonic", band leader Wayne Coyne revealed interesting details of their next album.
The band will release a track-by-track interpretation of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" in the near future, which it recorded with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs, a band that features Coyne’s nephew Dennis.
Henry Rollins and Peaches make guest appearances on the album, Coyne told the crowd during the pre-concert Q&A. A Flaming Lips spokesman says the album will likely be an iTunes-only release, at least initially. Our thanks to Hank Garbuzinski for the info.
UPDATE: KCRW, a US radio station in the States broadcasts a morning show called 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' and recently had the Flaming Lips perform live in the studio. Amongst new and old tracks the Lips also performed a version of Eclipse from The Dark Side of the Moon. You can see and hear the whole show here, or just the Eclipse segment here.
Wayne Coyne, frontman, also explains a little behind The Flaming Lips recording their version of The Dark Side of the Moon including the fact that Henry Rollins, of Black Flag, was employed to reproduce some of the spoken words originally supplied by Roger The Hat (amongst others) on the 1973 original!
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