News of one of the more unusual Pink Floyd related events has come our way - the 15th century King's Head pub in Lichfield, Staffordshire is hosting what is being described as a "1960's counter-culture 'happening' on the evening of Thursday, July 16th at 7pm.

Creating the event is the Fired Up Theatre Company, who in 2012 staged a production of The Wall at the nearby Tamworth Assembly Rooms. Poetry, film, music, readings and chill-outs are part and parcel of the evening and anyone who wishes to take part can do so, providing their work has a theme in keeping with the event.

For Pink Floyd fans however, the core piece of the event is of particular interest, namely a short play entitled The Last Pick Up?, an imaginary tale relaying the events leading up to the band's decision not to pick up their charismatic leader Syd Barrett for a gig at Southampton University.

Entrance is pay what you want - although in the true intimate style of pub theatre there are a limited number of spaces at any one time. For more details: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

eBay UK is currently offering no less than three Pink Floyd box sets all signed by Nick Mason. Taken from his personal collection, all three are currently shrinkwrapped so in pristine, factory condition inside, and the shrinkwrap will only be removed once the auction is finished, so that he can sign - and dedicate - the box sets to the winner. The box sets are being offered as one lot - they are not being offered individually.

The box sets have been donated by Nick to support the work of The Open Nest, a charity providing respite and other support for adopted children and their families. For more details of their work please visit their website at theopennest.co.uk.

The box sets on offer are the Immersion Edition of Wish You Were Here, the CD/DVD set of The Endless River, and the Record Store Day limited edition 3x7" vinyl single collection from The Wall.

Amanda Boorman, founder of The Open Nest, said: "We are so pleased to get Nick's support. Some adoptive families struggle every day with the effects that early life trauma has had on their children. We provide a place for families to stay in a beautiful countryside setting where they are understood and cared for. £200 provides for a week's stay for a family. We hope Nick's generosity will help some of our families find a time of peace and calm in their lives at The Open Nest. We would also be grateful for any other donations that will help our work. Go to justgiving.com/open-nest for a quick, simple and secure way to help our work. My thanks to Nick and everyone else who may either bid for these wonderful albums or make a donation".

The auction runs until 7:10pm (UK, BST) on May 19th, through this direct link.

Nick Mason has joined with Rolling Stones members and many others on a charity single released yesterday on iTunes.

On April 25th, a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, claiming more than 7,500 lives and injuring more than 14,500. The UK based humanitarian organisation Save The Children brought together soul singer Beverly Knight and a 100-voice choir made up of members of Save the Children, with Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood added backing vocals and guitar, respectively, for a recording session produced by Nick Mason at London's legendary Abbey Road Studios.

Nick said on his official Facebook page about the single, called 'Save the Children (Look Into Your Heart)', "So pleased this is finally getting a release - it's a great song, that was enormous fun to record. The assembled choir of contributors performed brilliantly (with assistance from Kim Chandler) ensuring the song was already a financial as well as musical success. The Abbey Road crew were magnificent as always, and The All Stars shone... Can't wait to work on the next one!"

All proceeds, distributed via Save the Children’s Nepal earthquake initiative, go to aid the survivors of the tragedy. Beverly Knight said "The terrible events in Nepal show just how vulnerable our fellow man can be in the face of nature. My hope is that the proceeds of this song will go some way to help raise urgently needed funds to repair homes and restore lives."

Order the song now through iTunes, via this direct link.

In 2004, the Rock’n’PopMuseum (www.rock-popmuseum.com) in Gronau, Germany had come to an agreement with the Cite de la Musique in Paris, France. The extremely popular Pink Floyd Paris exhibition, Interstellar, which was held at the Cite, was due to transfer to Gronau, but for some unknown reasons that sadly never happened.

Nevertheless, a healthy amount of Floyd coverage can now be seen at the museum in a recently opened exhibition - MusikMekkaMunster - which runs until August 23rd, 2015. The main body of this exhibition consists of the work of the photographer Christoph Preker, a native of Munster who died in 1996. Furthermore, one of the major parts of the exhibition consists of a series of concert shots of Pink Floyd, taken on February 24th, 1971 in the town.

Elsewhere in the exhibition are Munster concert shots of The Rolling Stones, from 1965 and 1975, The Who from 1967, Jethro Tull, 1971, Kraftwerk, 1971, Joe Cocker, 1985, Miles Davis, 1987, and many more. The Stones shots are interesting from an historical perspective, as the concert was the band's first ever concert on European soil.

The exhibition also includes interviews with various key figures, alongside rare concert posters, bootleg recordings, tickets, musicians clothing (including one of Keith Moon’s t-shirts, from The Who's 1967 concert in Munster.

Prints of all 37 Pink Floyd pictures are available to buy, in various sizes, through this link which also has other images that are on display in the museum, and in the context of the exhibition the pictures are either on big canvas frames or shown on a large screen as a slide show.

Our thanks to BD regular Michael Nickel for the help, information, and pictures shown here.