Having performed it at a few festivals last year, including an extended run at the Edinburgh Festival, Guy Pratt is bringing his highly acclaimed stand-up show, "Guy Pratt's Wake Up Call", to Brighton audiences this month. He will be performing at the Komedia as part of the Brighton Festival's Fringe programme, on May 17th at 9pm.

Tickets for the show, at a very reasonable £12, are now on sale through the Komedia's website. Should be an fun evening, and worth attending if you can. After the success of his first two shows, My Bass and Other Animals and Breakfast of Idiots, Wake Up Call reveals part three of Guy's life on the road, as bassist to some of the world's best bands.

If you've yet to experience it, you can now not only get his hilarious book, "My Bass And Other Animals" in Kindle format, you can be lazy and hear Guy himself reading the whole thing. The unabridged audiobook is playable on your computer, on your iPod or other MP3 player, and can even be burnt onto CD. It is now available to download from Audible UK. The book, which we highly recommend, is a no-holds barred, warts'n'all look at his career working with such luminaries as Madonna, Bryan Ferry, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, David Gilmour, and Pink Floyd, to name but a few.

Original, and unique, artwork by Nick Mason is included in an upcoming eBay auction in support of The Prince's Foundation for Children & The Arts.

Nick's artwork is included in a collection of over 50 self-portraits by leading artists, iconic celebrities and sports legends as the culmination to Face Britain, the UK's largest art project. Over 230,000 children and teenagers created self-portraits that were projected onto Buckingham Palace for 3 nights in April to herald the start of the Jubilee and Olympic celebrations.

Nick Mason's original signed artwork, which we have great pleasure in giving you a special, exclusive sneak preview to [click the thumbnail] features him behind the wheel of his Bugatti racing car.

His fellow contributors include Ronnie Wood, Adele, Michael Morpurgo, Jamie Oliver, Sir Michael Caine, Felicity Kendal, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Sir Geoff Hurst, Dame Mary Peters, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Stirling Moss, Adrian Newey and Jenson Button to name but a few. The aim is to reflect British culture and sporting achievement during the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign.

Proceeds from the Auction will support The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts, a charity founded by HRH The Prince of Wales that champions the power of the arts to transform children's lives. Online bidding runs on ebay.co.uk/facebritain from May 3rd - 13th, and here's a direct link to Nick Mason's self-portrait on eBay.

As birthday parties go, this one sounded a cracker! Friday (April 27th) saw a special celebration of Polly Samson's 50th birthday, and as revealed on her Twitter feed, the evening saw her husband, David Gilmour, put on a special celebration for her.

Held at the 20th Century Theatre in London's Notting Hill, the party - in front of 150 guests (amongst others, Ringo Starr, Jeff Beck and Nick Mason) - included a live band which we now know (thanks to one of the band members) consisted of Phil Manzanera, Guy Pratt, Andy Newmark on drums, Paddy Milner on keyboards, and David himself. Polly tweeted that "It was such a shock! I had no idea he'd rehearsed the band and written a song. Dark horse but lovely one. x "

Polly also tweeted the setlist, which makes for interesting reading: Smile / The Blue / This Heaven / Where We Start / High Hopes / the aforementioned new song... Obviously, as a private party, it is extremely unlikely that we'll see or hear any of the performances (to save you asking!) but if any is officially released, we'll let you know. Our thanks to Werner at Pulse & Spirit for help with this info. And, our congrats to Polly on her special birthday!

BBC Radio 4, in conjunction with John Harris (author of the DSOTM book), explore the tragic breakdown of Syd Barrett, and how his fellow band members and family coped, in a repeat airing of a programme originally broadcast in June 2011.

The Twilight World Of Syd Barrett airs again tomorrow (Thursday, May 3rd) at 11pm - 11:30pm. Band members reveal the concerns they had when he began to go catatonic on-stage, playing music that had little to do with their material, or not playing at all. By spring 1968 Barrett was out of the group but he re-emerged in 1970 with a pair of albums, which failed to chart. Barrett retired to a hermit-like existence under the watchful gaze of his sister Rosemary.

The programme includes interviews with Rosemary, as well as David Gilmour and Nick Mason, plus one of Rick Wright's final interviews before he died. Band members describe how there was then little understanding of mental illness and that steps taken to help him might not have been appropriate.

BBC Radio 4 can be heard on FM and DAB radio, digital cable, satellite and freeview, and via the BBC website where they have their "Listen Live" and "Listen Again" facilities, allowing you to hear the broadcasts for up to seven days following transmission. Our thanks to Malcolm Walker for tipping us off about this show's repeat airing.