With just one week to go, tickets are selling extremely well for the eagerly awaited concert recording of David Gilmour Live at Pompeii, filmed in 4k by director Gavin Elder and presented in Dolby Atmos sound. The film, being shown in cinemas worldwide on September 13th, is a recording of the pair of spectacular concerts held at the ancient Roman amphitheatre on July 7th and 8th last year.

Having seen the film last night, at a special preview screening in London's Soho district, we wholeheartedly recommend you do your best to see this in a cinema near you, if at all possible. Cinema audiences will get a special treat: a bonus documentary, which is only being shown with the film. This is a relatively short but interesting insight into the brace of concerts. This appears before the main feature.

The film itself is quite remarkable. An edit of the setlist for the two shows, there are highlights after highlights - those of us who were there will recall just how good the performances were each night, and that translates perfectly onto the screen. The camera work is spot on (with the 4k filming giving great detail and colour palettes) and the audio truly stunning. If you are able to see the film in a cinema equipped with Dolby Atmos, do so - the experience is quite something, with the power, the clarity, and the sense of almost being there in the amphitheatre. Particular highlights for me from the film inevitably included In Any Tongue, A Boat Lies Waiting, a superb Comfortably Numb, and Run Like Hell - in Pompeii, it was truly "turned up to 11"!

For details of cinemas taking part in this very special one night only event and ticket information visit davidgilmourcinematickets.com. As a reminder, here's the trailer for the film, which was unveiled in July...

Finally, September 29th sees the arrival of the recordings on 2CD, Blu-ray, 2DVD, a 4LP boxset, a Blu-ray and CD deluxe edition boxset, and via HD digital downloads. Other gems too are present on the deluxe boxset, including the acclaimed BBC documentary Wider Horizons. Check out the full specifications and contents of each edition of David Gilmour Live at Pompeii here.

Ordering details for all the various formats are shown here; below those are the details of the formats/track listings.

The combined wishes of all of us on the Brain Damage team, along no doubt with many of you reading this, go to Roger Waters, who celebrates his 74th birthday today.

Roger was born in Great Bookham, Surrey, in 1943, moving to Cambridge when he was two years old. It was there that he met, and became childhood friends with, a number of key people in the story of Pink Floyd. We hope you have a great day, Roger. Many happy returns!

Of course, Roger has been extremely busy over the last few years, having successfully taken Dark Side Of The Moon on tour in 2006, through to 2008. On completing that, he immediately started work on a new version of The Wall - which finally opened in September 2010. That tour was spectacularly successful, wrapping up in Paris for show number 217 in September 2013. Recordings of that tour turned into the film, shown in cinemas and released on DVD/Blu-ray and as part of a mammoth, Super Deluxe Edition.

More recently, he kicked off his Us + Them world tour, which so far has been performed a number of times in North America - Newark, NJ, is tomorrow night, as the tour resumes after a short summer break - and dates have now been announced for a number of shows in Australia and New Zealand. He's also released his latest solo album, Is This The Life We Really Want? as well as overseeing the release of the late Nick Sedgwick's book about the band, and in particular, the 1974 tour of The Dark Side of the Moon...

Just announced - the Roger Waters Us + Them tour is coming to Australia and New Zealand in early 2018. For tickets and more information, please visit rogerwaters.com; individual show pages for each night are now live on this site, so just click the links below - they are the places to come for information, pictures, reviews and suchlike for each show.

As an aside, the tour poster has caused a little flurry of excitement over the list of albums that songs will be selected from. I think it is safe to say there won't be anything from the soundtrack album of More, and it should be read as "...and others"!

Here are the dates announced thus far:

NEW ZEALAND
January 24th - Spark Arena (previously Vector Arena), Auckland
January 30th - Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin
- Tickets On Sale 12pm, Friday September 8th. Details including presales here.

AUSTRALIA
February 2nd - Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW
February 6th - Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall, QLD
February 10th - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC
February 11th - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC
February 16th - Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Hindmarsh, SA
February 20th - Perth Arena, Perth, WA
- Tickets On Sale From 10am, Friday September 8th. Details including presales here.

On Saturday, May 13th, a landmark event in the world of Pink Floyd took place. At London’s historic Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains opened to the public, bringing the world of the band to fan and casual observer alike. As with any such exhibition, the creators had to ensure they were not just preaching to the converted, but providing an absorbing, illuminating and compelling experience to all audiences. Covering 50 years or so of a band with the richness of Pink Floyd’s music, staging and design was never going to be easy, so the opening of TMR, finally, has come at the end of what seems quite a development process.

We know a number of you have already attended the exhibition, and more are planning to go - or go again! The organisers have today revealed that with over 300,000 visitors since the opening in May, it is on track to be the biggest music exhibition at the V&A, ever! Due to the unprecedented visitor numbers, including members of Pink Floyd, as well as Madonna, U2, Guns ‘n’ Roses, and others, The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains will be extended by two weeks and will now close on October 15th, 2017.

Tickets for the extended period of the exhibition are on sale now. Tickets (subject to booking fees) are priced at £20 (Monday-Friday), £24 (Saturday-Sunday), and concessions, including family tickets at reduced prices, are available. V&A Members go free. Advance booking is very strongly advised. Tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster, Seetickets, direct from the V&A at vam.ac.uk/pinkfloyd, by calling 0800 912 6961 (booking fee applies), or in person at the V&A itself. More information on the event can be found at http://www.pinkfloydexhibition.com/.

Whether or not you are going to the exhibition, you can place your order for the official hardback catalogue of The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains (featuring a lovely 3D lenticular cover, specific to this edition) which accompanies the exhibition, through the following direct links: Amazon UK, Amazon.com, Amazon Canada, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, Amazon Spain and Amazon Italy.