As many of you know, on April 29th the album Hendra, by Ben Watt (including a guest appearance by David Gilmour was released. After twenty years in Everything But The Girl, and ten years as a respected DJ and record label boss of Buzzin' Fly, Ben Watt announced last year he was putting everything on hold to complete some long-planned creative solo projects.

Hendra is his first solo album for over thirty years, released on his own new imprint, Unmade Road through Caroline International. David Gilmour adds slide guitar and backing vocals on the track The Levels.

Ben has been performing a few shows to promote the album, and this coming Monday, May 19th, he appears at the Islington Assembly Hall, at Islington Town Hall in London. For this show, he has a few guests including Bernard Butler, and David Gilmour, who will be performing on three tracks during the evening. Tickets are still available for the show, and can be purchased through Songkick.com. If you are unable to make it along to the show, look for our report afterwards - we'll bring you full details of the event.

In the meantime, you can currently order the CD from Amazon UK as a standard or deluxe edition, Amazon.com (US), Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, and Amazon Espana.

Those of us who follow the Pink Floyd's official Facebook page will have seen something quite interesting this afternoon, arriving unexpectedly in our Facebook news feeds...

This image has the hashtag of #TDB20 - it is of course the 20th anniversary of Pink Floyd's final album, The Division Bell, this year, and it appears that the band are keen to mark this. The small but intriguing image would - we presume - seem to be part of a larger image and it might be that this will be revealed before too long. Of course, there have been a few rumours of things, not least comments by Andy Jackson recently that a double vinyl edition will be released, so this could be related to that. Or not. Your guess is as good as ours!

It is certainly quite different from the iconic "Heads" variants used for the various covers of the album. The posting on the Floyd's Facebook has no information at all relating to it - just the hashtag.

More info, of course, when we have it...

Fashion designer Jeff Hamilton, the creative force behind the Guess? For Men brand, has spent some time with his attentions on leather jackets. Rather than fairly standard pieces of clothing, these benefitted from Jeff's close care and attention, and these became very desirable, and much sought after by celebrities and athletes alike.

His work on leather jackets, with the hand-cut detailing and embroidery, has now expanded and he has done a number of pieces celebrating the worlds of sport and music. Amongst those benefitting from his careful hand and design are The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Pink Floyd.

As you'll see, for Pink Floyd Jeff has taken a delightful, colourful poster designed to celebrate the March 1966 Marquee Club concert. The image will be familiar to many of you, although viewing the detail of the leather art, one can see it is all painstakingly done in leather and applique - requiring a skilled and very patient hand.

Our thanks to his leather art representative, Lissa Kivisto, for getting in touch regarding this work, and for sending over these pictures of the artwork to use on Brain Damage.

Jeff's pieces are for sale, and commissions are accepted, although like most "one-off" works which take a great deal of care and skill, these won't be cheap. However, whatever your wallet can stand, it costs nothing to browse his incredible work at jeffhamiltonleatherart.com.

Some of you will be aware that once dominant news source, the legendary British Pathé have opened their archives digitally, and their 1967 film of Pink Floyd included in their regular cinema newsreels, is now available to view on Youtube.

Their description of the Floyd footage runs thus: "At an unidentified countryside location we see various shots of members of pop group Pink Floyd wandering through cornfields, looking at scarecrows and swapping hats with them, while a song from their latest LP plays on the soundtrack (they do not mime). The band members seen are Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett and Richard Wright.

"The group sit in trees, lie on the grass, pick up a scarecrow from a field and stick it in the middle of a swampy pond before a row of village houses. A bizarre bit of horseplay between Nick Mason and Roger Waters involves them pretending to have a shoot-out in slow motion; Roger 'shoots' Nick in the hand, he reacts and manages to shoot Roger who falls down dead. What crazy psychedelic kids they were!"

They have also released a selection of general outtakes, and interestingly, amongst these (around the 8 minute point) are some from the Scarecrow shoot...