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Tuesday, 03 April 2012 |
Details of the "Pink Floyd: The Story Of Wish You Were Here" blu-ray and DVD have just been revealed. Released by Eagle Vision HD, the title is coming out on both formats on June 25th in the UK, and June 26th in North America. Other areas should follow suit around those dates.
With a quoted runtime of 85 minutes, this programme tells the story of the making of this landmark release through new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also featured are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover burning man Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the creation of the album. In addition, original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the songs construction. On the blu-ray the sound is presented in DTS-HD Master Audio, and LPCM stereo. Subtitles have been included on the disc in English, French, German, and Spanish.
The DVD and blu-ray releases contain additional bonus material not featured in the TV broadcast version, including further interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, plus Roger and David performing excerpts from the Wish You Were Here album.
For those fortunate enough to have seen the show already (it has been aired in the US) they will know that it is a fascinating look at the album, akin to Eagle's work on The Dark Side Of The Moon a few years ago. For those yet to see it, you are in for a treat!
At this stage, you can pre-order the blu-ray through this special Amazon UK link , and the DVD through this link; Amazon offer a pre-order price guarantee to ensure they charge their lowest price when shipping items at release. As other stores list the release, we will update this page. Play.com and Zavvi also offer this (and they also have the DVD for pre-order, too), but both are more expensive than Amazon currently.
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Written by Matt
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Saturday, 31 March 2012 |
US television channel Music Choice will air the US TV debut of the Pink Floyd retrospective aired on UK television back in September 2011. "Pink Floyd Miscellany: 1967-2005" features a selection of digitally remastered promotional videos and rare performance footage, and will air across the US on MC On Demand between April 2nd-29th, 2012.
The show will appear in a special Pink Floyd category On Demand under "Featured Artists." It will be housed in two thirty minute segments, rather than the original hour long version shown on BBC TV, along with additional features in the category, including what they call a "rare short film" on the band (although no details of what this is) and a special interview with drummer Nick Mason. Again, no detail on what this interview.
More details and how to watch the channel can be found at MusicChoice.com.
UPDATE: BD visitor Jeff T has seen what they are showing, and tells us that "MC On Demand is Broadcasting Part 1 which is just videos from Arnold Layne through Money including Cymbaline and One of These Days. The 'Short Film' is the EPK for the re-issues, and the Nick Mason interview is only 5 minutes". Part 2 is not yet available on MC on Demand.
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Written by Matt
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 |
Next week, Ron Geesin, co-composer of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother, presents the track at Bourgogne University, France, with a conference at the Mansart Theatre on April 3rd, and performances on April 4th and 5th, complete with Choirs, Orchestra and band.
This continues the collaboration with the French Baccalaureat (equivalent to the UK A Level) Music, who are studying Atom Heart Mother as a composition. For further information, and for tickets, please visit U-Bourgogne.fr, or check out the poster to the left [click on the thumbnail to see it in more detail]. For more information on Ron, and Atom Heart Mother, visit RonGeesin.com, and if you haven't checked out our extensive three-part interview with Ron about all things Atom Heart, make sure you read it here.
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Written by Matt
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 |
Last month, Nick Mason visited Google in Los Angeles to discuss his life and career. This interesting talk took place on February 6, 2012 as part of the Musicians@Google series, and they've posted the whole interview to watch on Youtube:
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Written by Matt
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012 |
"Flashback" at Artisan gallery, in London is coming to a close this weekend, and we thought we'd remind you, in case you are in or around London in the next few days. The exhibition showcases Adam Ritchie's incredible photos of Pink Floyd live in
1966/67, and the Velvet Underground in New York a year or so earlier, and our report on the event can be read here.
In London, 1966, Adam's old friend John "Hoppy" Hopkins had started the UFO Club and new bands got an opportunity to play. It was here Adam met Pink Floyd. He photographed them several times at the UFO and at the Roundhouse and got them on the cover of "Town" magazine. Many years later all but a few of the images remain. Some of these are being shown at
Artisan for the very first time.
Adam told us: "Some have been shown before but many are unseen until now. You may have seen some in Nick Mason's big book. The pictures were the only ones left after all the rest of my professional photo work was lost, so they are particularly important to me."
"Flashback" runs until March 24th, 2012, Wednesday to Saturday from 11am to 5pm, and more information can be found at www.artisan80.com.
The exhibition poster to the right, and
following photos [click the thumbnails], give a flavour of the wonderful
images on display at the Artisan. They are all copyright Adam
Ritchie, used here strictly with permission. You can see more of his
work at his website: www.adam-ritchie-photography.co.uk.
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