This evening at London's Roundhouse, the Classic Rock Magazine 2012 awards were held in front of an all-star audience, honouring the great and the good in the realm of classic rock.

Amongst the categories declared a short while ago, Pink Floyd won the Reissue Of The Year. This was for the Why Pink Floyd? catalogue releases, and the award was picked up this evening at the event by Nick Mason.

Elsewhere in the awards, the Film/DVD of the Year category was won by the excellent "Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here" which covers the story behind the album. This award was also picked up by Nick, who gave what has been described as a typically witty speech on accepting these honours.

UPDATE: As the Film/DVD of the Year category was a "reader's vote" award, John Edginton, the director of "Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here", has got in touch with us wishing to thank the many Brain Damage visitors who voted for his film.

This morning, Roger Waters announced the return of the historic production of "The Wall" to Europe in 2013. His aural and visual masterpiece of alienation and transformation will be performed in its entirety featuring the full band and state-of-the-art production. "The Wall" live has played 192 shows around the world to more than 3.3 million fans making it one of the most successful tours in rock history.

The 2013 tour as announced - and shown below - consists of 18 open air/stadium shows, to include such iconic venues as Rome Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam Arena and Berlin Olympic Stadium, etc., as well as two Oslo Telenor Arena concerts. An exclusive presale for The Wall 2013 will be held through RogerWaters.com. To participate, go to www.RogerWaters.com now to sign up. Public sale tickets for The Wall 2013 go on sale on November 16th for selected dates.

Roger said: "I'm extremely glad to be playing The Wall in Europe again. It's going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I've reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It's really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the Arena shows. I've had to rethink the whole thing about stadiums. This wide wall stadium show couldn't have been done 40 years ago. We couldn't have filled the space in a way that would have been emotionally, musically and theatrically satisfying. Technology has changed. Now we can."

Last night, Roger Waters participated in the Stand Up for Heroes concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Thankfully, the performances were all captured on video, and the live stream of the whole show is available to watch, on demand, over at Youtube, or you can watch it here:

In a new interview in Rolling Stone, Roger Waters has talked of his determination to finally finish a follow-up rock album to 1992's Amused To Death.

Roger told RS he has finished a song for an album tentatively titled Heartland. Completed on lunch breaks during The Wall tour that ended in July, the untitled song confronts what Waters calls "religious extremism". "I'm not sure what it will be called. I'll tell you what the first line is – I haven't told anyone else, and I may be sticking my head too far above the parapet – but the first line is, 'If I had been God...'"

"The Heartland idea sort of came from another song I wrote maybe 15 years ago, or longer even, which was a song that I wrote for a movie – a really, really bad movie called Michael that was about an angel," Waters said. "I'm absolutely determined to make another album. And I think this new song may give me the chance to do that. It provides a cornerstone and a core idea for me to write a new album about. You know, it's just one of my obsessions, which is, I'm sort of obsessed with the idea that religious extremism is a maligned factor in most of our lives."

Tomorrow night, as we reported last Friday, Roger will be performing at the Stand Up for Heroes benefit in New York, which will be streamed live on Youtube. Eight soldiers and three Marines will join him for three songs, including Wish You Were Here. "These guys are good", Waters said of his recruits. "I'm really proud to be working with them."

Finally, as visitors to our Facebook page would have seen yesterday, a new video released yesterday shows Roger paying a visit to Chef Eric Ripert's On the Table series to learn to cook langoustines. The discussion quickly turned to more worldly affairs, and Roger made no secret as to who he was routing for in yesterday's Presidential election in the US. You can see the full show here: