David Gilmour is the latest contributor to A Postcard for Palestine, a campaign which aims to "educate non-involved people into an awareness of the criminal occupation of Palestine by Israel with the collusion of Europe and the USA. A campaign for peace and justice."

This has been seen to be quite a divisive campaign for a number of people, as has been made clear by various reactions to some of the comments made over the last few years by Roger Waters. Going from past experience, we therefore won't enter into any email correspondence over the rights and wrongs of posting information about the campaign - we're simply pointing out David's contribution as we would any other public activities involving the different members of the Floyd.

David's contribution was submitted to them on January 6th, 2014. The organisers are inviting "voluntary submissions of designs on a postcard format, either portrait or landscape. The design could be a drawing, a painting, a photograph, a collage, a print, a poem, a song or any other medium of your choice." The contributions are then used to spread awareness of their campaign. 

For more information on their campaign, and to see other sumbissions made, visit www.apostcardforpalestine.com.

The massive 2014 NAMM show which runs until Sunday, January 26th in Anaheim, California, included a special announcement by DW Drums. They've released a set of three, specially designed Icon snare drums which honour Queen's Roger Taylor, Rush's Neil Peart, and our very own Nick Mason, with a lovely Pink Floyd design snare.

As their new brochure explains, these are very special items. "Created by DW Drum Designer, John Good, to pay tribute to some of the most iconic drummers in the history of Rock, the all-new line of Icon snare drums honors Neil Peart of Rush, Roger Taylor of Queen, and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd. The snare drum sizes and shell configurations are as played by each artist, with one dramatic new design element. The finish is painstakingly laser-cut, then hand-inlayed from a variety of jaw-dropping exotic wood veneers. For Neil Peart's drum, the Time Machine motif is realistically recreated in the wood, while Queen's ornate, Freddie Mercury-designed crest is depicted, as is Pink Floyd's famous Dark Side of the Moon prism and waveform image. Each drum is protected with clear gloss lacquer and includes Collector's Series snare drum standard features such as our MAG throw-off system with 3P (3 position) butt-plate, True-Hoops, True-Tone snare wires, True-Pitch tuning, and DW Heads by Remo USA. Also included are a premium DW snare bag, certificate of authenticity, and a legend that describes the woods used for each specific drum. For more information on this iconic collection, visit: www.dwdrums.com."

A video has been put together looking at DW's new range, but the Icon snares don't appear until near the end. However, from the look of them, some incredible care and attention has gone into their creation:

Gonzo Multimedia is releasing three rare albums by the late sax legend Gary Windo, one of which features Robert Wyatt and Pink Floyd's Nick Mason. Windo was a highly original musician with an instantly recognizable style, and was involved in the Seventies with many icons of the British jazz and rock genres, including the Canterbury scene, but who sadly passed away in 1992.

Windo was born in Brighton, England in 1941, into a musical family, and learned to play drums at 6, guitar at 12, and saxophone at 17. After sailing the world in the Merchant Navy, he settled in New York in 1962. A long period of apprenticeship, on and off-stage, followed during the Sixties, until he moved back to England in 1969. In March 1970, he took part in Graham Bond's all-star Sun Festival, with Jack Bruce, Mitch Mitchell, and Brian Auger. In 1971, he and Robert Wyatt formed Symbiosis, a prog-rock jamming band.

By 1973, Windo was playing pub gigs with Ray Russell's heavy-rock trio The Running Man, and working with Robert Wyatt on the jazz quartet WMWM, with pianist Dave MacRae and bassist Ron Matthewson. He played on Hugh Hopper’s album 1984, and was about to join Wyatt on his new Matching Mole group when Wyatt had his accident. The Wyatt-Windo collaboration continued on Wyatt’s subsequent solo albums, Rock Bottom (1974) and Ruth Is Stranger than Richard (1975).

In November of 1975, Windo formed Gary Windo & Friends for a one-off gig at Maidstone College of Art, with his wife Pam Windo on piano, guitarist Richard Brunton, and the rhythm section of Bill MacCormick, Nick Mason, and Laurie Allan. This group was the precursor to Windo's next album, which until now has never been released.

In 1976, Nick Mason offered Gary Windo time in Pink Floyd's brand new Britannia Row studio, which would give Windo the opportunity to make this album, and Pink Floyd the chance to test the new systems. Nick Mason both produced and played drums, and with his typical sense of humour, Windo would call the album Steam Radio Tapes.

You can place your order for this album, finally released and available as a CD or MP3 download, right now through these direct links: Amazon UK, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, Amazon Espana and Amazon Italy. Anything bought at Amazon after going to their sites using our links gives a small but vital contribution toward the ongoing running costs of Brain Damage, without costing you any extra, and we really appreciate it.

According to H24Notizie website, Roger Waters has approved a monument to the memory of his father.

The memorial, a marble obelisk 3 metres high, has - the report states - already got the OK from Roger Waters, along with "his artistic director" Sean Evans. It will be a gift that the municipality of Aprilia will make Waters, whose father died during the fierce fighting after the landing at Anzio on February 18, 1944. Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters lost his life in the area of Riserva Nuova, and his body has never been found.

They continue that, 70 years after the death of his father, on February 18th, 2014, Waters will go to Aprilia and meet the directors and students of Rosselli and Meucci University, and then will go to Anzio to receive honorary citizenship.

The project obelisk was created by a graphic design studio in Ascoli Piceno. The plaque is said to read: "In memory of Eric Fletcher Waters (December 12, 1914 - February 18, 1944) died here, and all the others who are in unmarked graves." Finally, a phrase taken from Two Suns in the Sunset, from The Final Cut: "Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend, we were all equal in the end".

UPDATE: The following video has appeared now, specifically about the citizenship event: