Nick Mason, along with Ozzy Osbourne (who narrates a moving introduction), Andy Taylor of Duran Duran (who recently revealed his own battle with cancer) and Noddy Holder, lead a group of renowned artists on the song. It's Nick's second collaboration with the charitable endeavour founded by Professor Sir Chris Evans - the first being 2018's One More Yard.
On the new project, Nick said: "It's an honour and a delight to be asked to play on this record...I mean, what's not to like? My favourite recording studio, the opportunity to work with great artists on a wonderful track - and for the most worthy cause... Oh, and complimentary lunch in the Abbey Road canteen!"
This Christmas Time, written by Prof. Sir Chris Evans (who also played guitar), is inspired by the heroism and letters home from World War 1 British soldiers at Christmas.
The magazine invites you to 'join writers and musicians on a voyage inside its songs and stories: "It's stood the test of time because of the spirit and emotion which went into it". They hint at 'New revelations! Myths explained! Kraftwerk implications!'
Articles within include PP Arnold talking about Clare Torry's vocal performance on Great Gig In The Sky, Alan Parsons looking at his work on the album, former Kraftwerk member Kart Bartos giving a particularly interesting analysis of On The Run (with reference to their own Autobahn), and much more. There's also an exclusive extract, looking at the story of the iconic sleeve design and the band during that era, from Mark Blake's superb new book, Us And Them: The Authorised Story of Hipgnosis which is published at the start of February. It should give you a taste of Blake's book which we're reading an early version of - it really will be an essential for your bookshelves!
If you're in the UK, a subscriber or ordering direct from them, there's a suitably designed and wide-ranging Pink Floyd companion CD, featuring artists as diverse as Ron Geesin, Miles Davis, Love, The Butterfield Blues Band, Chuck Berry, Doris Troy (one of the vocalists on the album) and much more.
Elsewhere in the magazine are features on Iggy Pop, Blur, some unseen pictures of Rolling Stones, a look at the 50 best buried treasures of 1972, and 2023 comprehensively previewed, amongst many other things.
Always a great read, the magazine is due to arrive in UK stores around now, and will be available in selected locations worldwide as an import, in due course. Alternatively, you can order (worldwide) online through the Great Magazines website which is owned and run by the publishers of Mojo (and will secure you the cover-mounted CD as well!).
Due to popular demand, The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains, the magnificent and critically acclaimed major retrospective of Pink Floyd, their music and the impact the band had on art and culture is remaining in Montreal, Canada, for a little longer.
Following its hugely successful debut at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in 2017, which saw over 400,000 people attend, the exhibition has subsequently traveled to Italy, Germany, Spain and the United States attracting over 500,000 people and is now running in the cultural hub of Montreal.
The Exhibition opened on November 4 at Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal, which is proving to be a great venue for the immersive experiential journey through Pink Floyd's world. The band played in Montreal a number of times, including the concert which concluded the 1977 tour, and inspired The Wall. The exhibition is now due to run until February 5th, 2023, giving more people the opportunity to visit - and if you can get along to it, you really won't regret it!
Tickets for the exhibition are now on sale via PinkFloydExhibition.com and as before, advance booking is highly recommended as popular times and dates are unsurprisingly selling quickly. Opening hours over the Christmas and New Year period vary (full details on their website), and normal opening hours each week for the exhibition are as follows:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays: 10:00am to 6:00pm (time of last entry)
Fridays, Saturdays: 10:00am to 7:00pm (time of last entry)
Sundays: 10:00am to 5:00pm (time of last entry)
Ticket prices include the excellent audioguide which attendees to previous stagings of the exhibition will know is an extremely well designed facility which will really enhance your visit.
For more information about the exhibition, either check out the various articles here on Brain Damage, or visit www.pinkfloydexhibition.com.
Our friend Charles Beterams over at Floydstuff has just lined up a show for those of you in or near Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
He is hosting Guy Pratt at the beautiful Hard Rock Hotel Amsterdam American, following the incredible 2022 tour with Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets, for an evening of chatter and some music too.
The event takes place at 8pm, at the hotel's intimate setting of the 'Mata Hide Away' named after the infamous courtesan and convicted spy Mata Hari. The Hard Rock Hotel Amsterdam American is featured in the legendary photo shoot by Nico van der Stam during Pink Floyd's first visit to the Netherlands in April 1967.
Tickets for this event are very limited and are available NOW from Floydstuff.com.
The album consists of six songs, and runs for 39 and a half minutes. At the moment, there is no confirmation that there will be a physical release of this, but should this change we will of course let you know.
The tracks on the album are Mother, Two Suns In The Sunset, Vera, The Gunner's Dream, The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range, and Comfortably Numb 2022.
Roger explained that he was going to do an album of unusual encores, but then lockdown struck.
"Our Us and Them Tour lasted three years... At every gig we did an encore after the main show closed with Comfortably Numb… the encore was always Mother... I can't remember why I decided to start doing other songs?... Anyway, at some point after the end of the tour… I started thinking, "It could make an interesting album, all those encores"… "The Encores". "Yeah, has a nice ring to it!" Then…I'm in England doing the Ginger Baker tribute gig one Tuesday night at the Hammersmith Odeon with Eric Clapton and… the following Saturday marching from The Australian Embassy to Parliament Square to make a speech in support of Julian Assange, when bugger me, Covid…Schlummmm!
"For me it was Friday March 13th 2020. Lockdown! So much for the "Encores" project. Unless… We've tacked C. Numb on the end of the collection, as an appropriate exclamation point in closing this circle of love."
Below you can listen via Spotify, but the full list of available sources for this newly released music can be found through this link.
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