As a result of the acclaim from critics and fans for the European tour this month by Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets (presenting an expanded version of the set heard at the London shows in May which similarly blew people away), and an indication how much enjoyment the band themselves seem to be getting from the performances, a further set of five shows have just been announced, for England and Wales next April/May.
Tickets for these shows, detailed below, go on sale at 10am on Friday (September 28th) through Ticketmaster, SeeTickets, and other official outlets, and as before, we urge you to snap up your tickets before they all sell out. This is in many people's view, a truly unmissable concert with a well curated set list covering material from the Floyd's early days right up to 1972.
Here's the all-important list of new dates. Which one(s) are you hoping to go to?
Don't forget, tickets go on sale this coming Friday. And those of you across the Atlantic? Nick's and the Saucers' social media make a mildly cryptic comment that "our friends in North America, [should] keep an eye out for an interesting announcement soon..."
In today's edition of The Guardian newspaper in the UK, an interesting interview with Nick Mason, as well as Guy Pratt and Gary Kemp, looks at the early days of Pink Floyd, and how Nick's new band - his Saucerful Of Secrets - came about.
Despite lacking the "considerable degree of luxury" he enjoyed touring with Pink Floyd in the latter years, he notes that the camaraderie of the Saucers has made a huge difference as they tour around Europe this month. Just two more shows are left on mainland Europe now - Milan and Zurich - before a run of six nights in England and Scotland, to conclude the tour.
Nick talks about the idea of revisiting those early days, and reminisced about them: "Playing a Top Rank ballroom somewhere, on a bloody revolving stage, with Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band on the other side of it, and the whole audience wanting them to come on and us to get off."
For the Saucers, Nick looked at the band's pre-Dark Side material. "I hadn't really examined these songs in 40-something years. It was a real eye-opener. Syd's way of working and his writing, and some of the other things we did, you just think, 'God, this has got such a modern feel to it.' Obscured By Clouds! You could take that to Ibiza!"
Elsewhere in the piece, Gary Kemp talks about his involvement in the band, and the surprise which accompanied the initial announcement of the man that most knew from his Spandau Ballet career.
As we now start looking towards the end of the year (yes, we know it is still September, but Christmas isn't that far around the corner!), it's that time again... now available is the Official Pink Floyd 'Early Years' 2019 Calendar.
It's a perennial Floyd fan favourite - particularly as a gift at Christmas time - is this annual official wall calendar. An item which has been produced for many years now, the standardised format is roughly the same size as a vinyl album - roughly 12" (or 30cm) square, with the calendar opening up to have a double page spread per month.
The calendar this year - as the full title suggests - could be considered a companion piece to the band's lavish Pink Floyd The Early Years 1965-72 box set (and subsequent "breakout" year sets). Each month provides a blend of (mostly) black and white shots from the band's initial years, and includes live shots, backstage, studio and posed press pictures.
The calendar each year is often squirrelled away as a collectable for the years to come, and earlier examples are now quite sought after, and we're sure this one will prove just as popular.
Well, the wait for our friends in Germany is now over - The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains opened to the public on Saturday, in a city that the Floyd played in a number of times, from the 1977 In The Flesh tour onwards. Dortmund is the city, and the Dortmunder U is the location.
The venue is a former brewery building, which for the last eight years has been a centre for the arts and creativity. Situated close to the city's centrally located railway station, it's in an ideal position. You can find out more about the museum, and the exhibition, via dortmunder-u.de.
With the Rome, Italy, staging of the exhibition, there were some adjustments to the items displayed, not least an inclusion of items specific to that country. We suspect the same changes have been made for Dortmund, with materials relating to German shows being included amongst the exhibits. If you are going, or have already visited, please let us know what you thought!
This latest staging of the exhibition runs until February 10th 2019 and tickets are now available through this direct link at Eventim.de. As with the London and Rome stagings of the exhibition it is definitely recommended that you book your tickets in advance, to ensure entrance at a time that suits you. Tickets for popular times for the previous stagings (for example, late morning on Saturdays or Sundays) naturally sold strongly, with some time slots selling out completely, so please bear this in mind.
There should also be some Dortmund specific merchandise on offer at the Dortmunder U, as well as online via the official Pink Floyd store. This will probably include posters, prints, t-shirts and suchlike.
Finally, here's an official trailer for the exhibition:
In an unexpected announcement, it has been confirmed that Roger Waters, in conjunction with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Orchestra, has been working on a new album - Igor Stravinksky's The Soldier's Tale - to be released via Sony Music Classical, on October 26th, 2018.
For this new recording of this classic, Roger has rewritten the text, telling the whole of the harrowing modern fairy tale, playing not just the Soldier, the Devil and the Narrator, but all the other characters as well!
The track listing for this album is shown below the ordering info; longer term visitors to Brain Damage will recall that Roger performed The Soldier's Tale back in 2008 with the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Orchestra. It clearly made a big impression on him, resulting in this recorded collaboration with the same orchestra, which certainly sounds very intriguing.
ORDERING INFORMATION:
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