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Saturday, 17 August 2013 |
An update for you on The Gathering Storm - The Album Art of Storm Thorgerson, which we first told you about in May, and which is being published in October 2013.
Storm wrote and compiled this book over the last year of his life and was still writing it at Christmas - he saw a finished copy a few days before he died. It spans his entire career in album cover design from the 1960s and his days with Hipgnosis, through the intervening decades and it finishes with images he made with StormStudios this year. Due to be released in October, it is a luscious hardback book, 256 pages thick and is available in three editions: Hardback, Collector's and Deluxe. Those of you with the previous book, A Raging Storm - also published by StormStudios and de Milo - will know how nicely done that was, and with the same printers in Italy being used for this, the same quality should shine through.
With artwork created for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Muse, Peter Gabriel, Wombats, 10cc, Audioslave, Black Sabbath, Biffy Clyro, Genesis, Rainbow,
Steve Miller, Pendulum and The Mars Volta amongst others, a wide cross-section of people will no doubt thoroughly enjoy it. Our review,
though, will be along closer to publication date.
In the meantime, pre-orders are now being taken for all three versions through the official TGS website for despatch upon publication. You've got the following options:
- HARDBACK: The book alone. The first 50 copies will be signed by Peter, Dan and Rupert at the Studios. Pre-order HERE.
- COLLECTOR'S: Limited to 125 copies this includes the signed book with a collector's box of 12 roughs (early draft sketches of cover designs) carefully printed onto A5 heavyweight card. Pre-order HERE.
- DELUXE: This very limited edition of just 20 comes with both the signed book and the box set of roughs and a deluxe fine art print of the Liquid Dark Side image from the front cover of the book, replete with special glazes and embossing. Pre-order HERE.
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Written by Matt
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Thursday, 15 August 2013 |
A set of six quite incredible 360 degree panoramic photos taken at the August 9th Wall concert at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany, have just been published.
The pictures represent the view of the stage AND the audience and venue, at the following points of the show:
- The start of In The Flesh?
- During In The Flesh?
- The end of In The Flesh?
- Another Brick In The Wall part 1
- Another Brick In The Wall part 2
- Mother
Each picture links off to a Javascript controlled, 360 degree picture which you move around and explore yourself as you look around the venue - you can even look up at the ceiling or down to the floor, seeing the photographers in the area between the stage and the crowd. The thumbnail here gives just a flavour of the pictures - the panoramas are MUCH larger.
For me, particularly striking are the Another Brick panoramas which feature a particularly creepy Teacher looming large over the camera... Click here to see them all.
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Written by Matt
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Saturday, 10 August 2013 |
Back in March, we told you that there was another performance of Ça Ira coming up this year, to follow on from the four shows in São Paulo, Brazil, in May. The opera is being performed on August 13th, 2013, at G�taplatsen, which is a public square in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the southern end of Kungsportsavenyn (The King's Gate Avenue), the city's
main street. The staging of the opera is the grand opening event of the Göteborgs kulturkalas/Gothenburg Culture Festival, which runs from August 13th -
18th, and of course, Roger himself is in Gothenburg to perform at the Ullevi Stadium on August 17th.
With his proximity to the city, Roger takes an evening off from his Wall tour to attend this show. Whilst the performances thus far have, at best, had Roger introducing the evening, this one is quite different. For this particular show Roger will himself take part in his opera. He will be
narrating the opera, clearly visible to the audience, sitting in a leather armchair on one edge of the stage. The opera was written for the
200th anniversary of the French Revolution, but as many of you know, received its world premiere in 2005 in Rome.
www.goteborg.com has more details of the event, the festival, and the venue. The performance is free - no tickets required - but we would naturally recommend that if you are attending, you arrive early to secure a decent place in the audience area.
Our thanks to Jochen Klug for letting us know about this. If anyone is in the area, or even better, attending the show, we'd love to see ANY pictures, posters, reviews, newspaper reports, and anything else you come across for this show - we look forward to hearing from you! In the meantime, here's the official advert for the event:
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Written by Matt
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Thursday, 08 August 2013 |
Well, when the original tour was first announced back in April 2010, who would have thought that last night would have seen show 200 on what is currently the Roger Waters The Wall Live tour of Europe 2013?
The show has built night-by-night, with changes and enhancements, and more recently with the larger, outdoor version of the show wowwing significantly larger crowds in various parts of the world. It seems a great time to thank everyone who has helped so far with our coverage of the concerts. For the past 200 shows, we've brought you everything from ticket scans, through to concert posters and ads, reviews, pictures, videos and more. With the voice of the fans themselves behind the reviews and concert comments, our coverage has even been a regular read for members of the band and the crew.
There are just nineteen shows left - possibly Roger's last ever concerts - and as ever, we want to celebrate these final shows as best we can. If you are going to any of them, we'd love to hear your thoughts on them, see any pictures or video you've taken there, and anything else you come across that relates to them, sharing your thoughts, feelings and memories with the Floyd community. As ever, you can email us through
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. Thanks, and if you're going to one of the remaining shows, have a fantastic time!
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Written by Matt
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Thursday, 08 August 2013 |
Prog Magazine, organisers of the Orange Amplification presents Progressive Music Awards, have today announced that they will be renaming the Grand Design Award to the Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award.
From Pink Floyd's 1968 A Saucerful Of Secrets to Biffy Clyro's 2013 Opposites album, Storm Thorgerson's incredible 45 year career saw him work with artists that included Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Muse, Black Sabbath, 10cc, Dream Theater plus many more.
Storm Thorgerson designs speak for themselves. He created some of the most iconic and striking images in rock including Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here. His designs are seen by many as integral to the albums as the music itself. His designs have dominated Best Album Cover polls around the world for many years and will do for years to come.
Storm sadly passed away in April this year, but his legacy will forever live on in his work. Jerry Ewing, Editor of Prog Magazine said: "Storm's contribution to prog rock and beyond is incredible. When we heard of his passing, we felt that it was only right to pay tribute to the man who has given so much to music through his art. This re-titling of the Grand Design award is especially fitting, given that Storm won this award at last year's ceremony for his continued work with Pink Floyd. We are honoured to name this award after him."
Peter Curzon, co-founder of StormStudios and close friend of Storm says: "Winning the award last year for the Pink Floyd 'Immersion' box sets gave Storm great pleasure, but to have the whole award dedicated to him is something that would have at first amused him, but would have made him feel very honoured. It's great that Prog has recognised the impact Storm's work has had on the world of music and album cover design - he loved his work and was always thinking of the next idea - his legacy will now live on not only through his incredible body of work but also through this fantastic event."
This is the second year of the Progressive Music Awards, and with the location so popular with attendees last year, once again it will take place in the stunning and unique surroundings of Kew Gardens on Tuesday, September 3rd, and will be hosted by Gavin Esler.
Voting is open now and a full list of all the categories and nominees can be found at www.progrockmag.com/awards where readers can have their say by voting in the various categories. Readers who register to vote will have the chance to win a bumper prize of prog goodies compiled from nominated acts.
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