Roger Waters will be joining GE Smith on Friday, October 30th, at 8pm, for a very intimate acoustic performance, as part of GE's new series of shows known as "GE Smith presents PORTRAITS". The show takes place at the Bay Street Theatre in New York. This is the second show, and with his friend Roger participating should be one to catch if you can make it to New York at the end of October. The venue is a very small, 150 seat space so should make for a fascinating event.
"PORTRAITS" will be teaming Smith up with various people to join him for an intimate evening to play their favourite tunes on various nights. Smith will explore his passion for R & B while highlighting his guests’ musical ideology.
Tickets are now on sale and selling fast, through Ovationtix.com. Ticket prices range from $60 - $100 and there are just 21 seats left available.
Yesterday morning, US TV channel CBS aired its regular This Morning programme, and amongst the features on it was an interesting interview with David Gilmour and Polly Samson. It is being called his first in-depth interview for US television, and is definitely worth seeing. You can now watch the interview here:
We suspect that many of you this weekend are settling down to explore Rattle That Lock, David Gilmour's new solo album which was released on Friday (September 18th) in various editions - double vinyl, CD, CD and Blu-ray, and CD and DVD box sets. The Blu-ray and DVD editions include much supplementary material as well as a stunning 5.1 surround mix of the album. Our review of the album is currently being worked on and should be along soon - along with our ongoing coverage of the current European concerts. On that note, if you are attending the shows, please let us know what you think of them!
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London's legendary Abbey Road Studios is opening its doors to the public this November to host a series of lectures under the name 'Sleeve Notes: From Mono To Infinity' presented by acclaimed music producer and recording engineer (plus one-time Vice-President of the Studios…) Alan Parsons.
During the talks he will be opening up about the development of his own skills and experience as an engineer, producer and recording artist at Abbey Road, placing these alongside the ongoing developments in music technology at the Studios that allowed him and others to create such ground-breaking records that continue to survive the test of time.
The talks will include audio, footage, photos and the vintage studio equipment used to create some of his and the Studios' classic tracks. They will also include an audience Q&A co-hosted by David Hepworth whose journalistic and TV credits include work for The Guardian, NME, Q, Mojo and The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Alan Parsons' career at Abbey Road began when he was a trainee engineer on The Beatles' final two albums, Let It Be and Abbey Road, and he went on to handle mixing duties on Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother and The Dark Side Of The Moon. As an artist and producer in his own right in the Alan Parsons Project he went on to record a series of works throughout the 70s and 80s at Abbey Road including Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, I Robot, and Eye In The Sky.
Tickets for the events are now available through this direct link at Seetickets. The sessions take place on Friday 13th November 2015, at 3pm and 8pm; Saturday 14th, at 11am and 4pm; and Sunday 15th at 4pm.
In an upcoming Rolling Stone interview, Roger Waters reveals plans for a new project, and also mentions Heartland, the album he had been working on for a while.
RS note that he's been writing rock songs and a script for an as-yet-untitled 'radio play', and excerpts from the work could make up a new album, and be adapted into an arena show. "I can see it in my mind's eye," he told them.
The drama will revolve around two characters, generations apart, who live in Belfast, Northern Ireland - a grandfather, who is babysitting a child, and complaining about a war on the TV news. The child has a nightmare about children being killed in a conflict, and as Roger notes: "The grandfather promises the child to find out what's happening, and he gets him to go back to sleep, reads a bit of Winnie the Pooh, which I always do on my records. And the rest of the record is the grandfather and the kid going on a magic carpet ride to see if they can find an answer to that question: 'Why are they killing the children?'"
Demos of the proposed songs have been recorded in LA a few weeks ago with Nigel Godrich, who mixed the music for the Roger Waters The Wall movie, and is best known for his work with Radiohead. Some of Heartland may be integrated into the new work, and he is considering a big tour to support it. "I'd like to do one more if I can," he says. "I think I've got one more in me."
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