Our good friends over at Rock Music Memorabilia have just launched a brand new box set. Having sold out the previous Pink Floyd set in record time, they have now produced a further very collectable commemorative set limited to just 200 copies. Devoted to Pink Floyd's appearances at both the 1970 Bath Festival and the 1975 Knebworth Festival, this set also contains free gifts of 3 DVDs & 6 CDs, plus a bundle of other goodies. But that's not all!

As a special offer only for visitors to Brain Damage and our great sister site A Fleeting Glimpse, they are also giving a copy of Voiceprint's Remember Knebworth 1978 DVD with the first 10 sets, and have also reserved numbers 1 - 10 out of the limited edition of 200 just for BD/AFG visitors! Full details of the contents here...

With the Dallas and Houston shows going on sale yesterday morning, tickets for all four of Roger Waters' 2008 Dark Side Of The Moon shows in the US are now available - but we're getting plenty of people telling us that these are selling very quickly indeed - no huge surprise with so few shows lined up!

So, if you are intending to go to one of them, and haven't yet bought yours, we suggest you hurry over to Ticketmaster's site before it is too late. Finally, full details of ALL his confirmed shows this year can be found in our Roger Waters 2008 Tour Zone.

Back on November 19th, 2005, we told you about a (then) recently unearthed recording of a concert that Syd Barrett participated in back on January 27th, 1972.

The band - The Last-Minute Put-Together Boogie Band - included Jack Monck on bass, Twink on drums, and Fred Frith on guitar. Their set that night consisted of 5 blues songs before Syd comes on stage for a long jam ("Number Nine") followed by 3 blues songs/improvs ("Gotta Be A Reason", "Let's Roll" and "Sweet Little Angel").

Up for auction on eBay currently is the incredibly rare poster for the event (see right; click thumbnail to enlarge). To our knowledge, the poster has not been seen in public since it was on display in Cambridge in early 1972, and is bound to be of interest to serious Barrett collectors, as well as fans of the headliners Pink Fairies and Hawkwind. (Thanks to Clayton Everett for the info)

One of our favourite radio stations is the award winning UK-based digital radio station, Planet Rock. A very Pink Floyd-friendly station, they've broadcast some unmissable Floyd-related programmes over the last few years, most recently Guy Pratt's in-depth interview of Richard Wright on the 40th anniversary of Piper At The Gates of Dawn. Also, Guy himself has recently got an 11pm-1am show on Friday nights (see the "listen again" link to the right of this story) - a great way to end the week.

However, the station's owners are making some financial cutbacks across the range of interests they have, and if they are not able to secure a buyer, it has been agreed that Planet Rock will close on March 28th. This would be terrible news, and already, many fans of the station (including musicians such as Fish, Rick Wakeman, and Brian May - who has even asked if he can buy it!) have come out in support in the form of feedback, and online petitions, to hopefully save it from closure.

Please visit www.SavePlanetRock.co.uk for more details and to make your voice heard.

UPDATE, March 27th: There is some definite interest in the station being taken over, and while this is investigated, Planet Rock has been given an additional month on air. It will definitely be broadcasting until the end of April now. Let's hope that the station is bought and is kept on air...