Coming soon to Staffordshire, England, is a contemporary re-imagining of Pink Floyd's The Wall. It is being staged at Tamworth Assembly Rooms in June by Arts Connects and Fired Up Theatre, by kind permission of Roger Waters and his management. The performance will use Pink Floyd's classic music, with a new narrative brought bang up to date by Simon Quinn of Fired Up Theatre.

The aim of the project is to bring together and involve people from all ages and communities across Tamworth and will involve groups of people who would not normally work together. The performances will include the tribute band Floydian Slip alongside the various performers.

The show can be seen on June 5th through to June 8th, at 7:30pm each evening. Tickets are now available, and more details can be seen on the adjacent event poster, to the left.

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.

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.

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.