A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the screening of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii in Montreal, in its newly restored version. We've just found that there has been a little more to this than we were initially aware of!

Yesterday evening saw the world premiere of some newly discovered additional interview footage with the band, which will be screened again on Monday afternoon (October 14th), at 1pm at the Excentris Fellini, 3536 boulevard St-Laurent in Montreal. Tickets for the showing in two day's time of the 60 minute Le festin des huîtres (Chit Chat with Oysters) can be booked through Nouveaucinema.ca.

"Chit Chat with Oysters is the opposite of Live at Pompeii," summarised director Adrian Maben to the La Presse newspaper. "I shot these pictures with a camera light, just as if it is a family film. We see how the group worked. There are a lot of great, and trivial, conversations. On food. About friendship. On how to avoid conflict in a group. We find a group with a lot of humour. This is the hidden face of Pink Floyd."

On the official website, Adrian talks about the new footage: "In December 1971, Pink Floyd met at the small Europa Sonore studio in Paris to work on the multi track mix of “Live in Pompeii” previously recorded by Charles B. Raucher. Sound effects were added to the original tapes. David Gilmour and Richard Wright overdubbed their voices for Echoes, part I and II. Roger Waters and Nick Mason remained in the control room. In the middle of the day, the roadie Chris Adamson was sent to buy a few dozen oysters and beers at the nearby Brasserie Lorraine. During an improvised lunch the four members of the band answered questions about their music and the schemes they had devised to avoid infighting. They poked fun at the director and at themselves. Their hilarious, off-the-cuff, chit chat was unique because in those days the Floyd rarely talked about themselves to the media. This 16mm black and white film is an authentic portrait of the group as they were a few months before the release of the first version of Live at Pompeii. It’s a miracle that the recently rediscovered rushes are still undamaged. They have never been seen before with the exception of a ten minute sequence previously used for The Director’s Cut. The images were restored and edited with the help and support of the Cinémathèque française."

Our thanks to those who wrote in about this, and in particular to Christophe Ducournau, John McHugh, and Frederic Dufour. If we hear of future screenings, or other opportunities to see this footage, we will of course let you know...

With the Roger Waters The Wall Live tour now (sadly) concluded, we were very grateful to Brain Damage reader Arend Wentink who has let us know about a special publication which looks in detail at the mechanics of staging such a huge endeavour.

The magazine is available, in its entirety, online at mobileproductionpro.com as a PDF file. It's a 16MB download, but the majority of the 46-page magazine is devoted to articles covering the staging, touring and technical detail of the tour. It gives a fascinating glimpse behind the wall, and brings into sharp focus many of the things that audiences would just take for granted.

Definitely worth checking out...

Many of you will recall previous Pink Floyd related releases from Fruits de Mer Records: Us and Them's version of Pink Floyd's Julia Dream, and "What Colour is Pink?" a 7" pink vinyl EP of covers of three tracks from A Saucerful of Secrets, by the German psych/spacerock band Vibravoid. Both of these proved rather popular.

In a month's time - November 11th, 2013 - a new, limited 7" single is released by Fruits de Mer. On coloured vinyl, with a proud boast of "no downloads and no CDs", Vespero (a Russian progressive/psychedelic rock band) offer their versions of Careful With That Axe, Eugene and One Of These Days. Both songs, of course, have a fairly violent theme to them, which may or may not have influenced their choice of track to cover, and as you'll hear from the excerpt here, they've done a good job at approaching Eugene and keeping things authentic sounding.

It will be on sale in November, and you can get the single direct from www.fruitsdemerrecords.com and from like-minded shops (virtual or brick-built) such as Heyday, Norman and Rough Trade.

The well-respected UK radio station Planet Rock are broadcasting a new series of one-hour specials dedicated to classic albums - "Planet Rock Plays It In Full" - starting at 11pm UK time on Monday, October 14th.

Planet Rock Plays It In Full will air legendary albums in full, played uninterrupted by jingles, commercials or DJs and introduced in each case by one of the key people behind it. The first show (this coming Monday) will feature Roger Waters discussing Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, while the coming weeks will include Jimmy Page discussing Led Zeppelin IV and Meat Loaf talking about Bat Out Of Hell.

Those in the UK can tune in on DAB radio, via Sky satellite TV (channel 0110), Virgin Media digital cable (channel 924), or Freesat (channel 730). Alternatively, fans worldwide can listen in via their website: PlanetRock.com. They also have a "Listen Again" facility online but we cannot guarantee that this new show will be available through that route.

UPDATE: You can now hear the show on demand through this link.