Guy Pratt is being interviewed on Shaun Keaveny's Breakfast on BBC 6 Music radio station (UK) next Monday (August 8th) after 9am. His new show 'Guy Pratt's Wake Up Call' shares tales of his life as a touring musician. Bizarre, poignant and often hilarious he chats with Shaun about his career that has seen him play with Pink Floyd, Gary Moore, Roxy Music, Michael Jackson, Echo & the Bunnymen, Coverdale Page, Kirsty MacColl, The Smiths, Tears for Fears, Lemon Jelly, The Orb, All Saints and Jimmy Nail.

You can tune in to BBC 6 Music on DAB digital radio, TV (Sky, Freeview, Freesat and Virgin Media), and online at BBC.co.uk/6music. Our thanks to David Haddock for the info...

As a reminder, Guy will next be performing his show at the Gilded Balloon as part of the Edinburgh Festival, between August 19th and 29th. His excellent book, "My Bass and Other Animals", has also just appeared in Kindle format. More info here...

Many of you will be very familiar with Joe Boyd's name. Boyd, an American, lived in London in the mid-60s, and amongst many other things managed UFO with John "Hoppy" Hopkins. This club was a matrix of the London "Underground" scene in the pivotal years of 1966/7, where Pink Floyd was the house band and The Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention and the Move all played memorable shows. Boyd also produced the Floyd's first single, Arnold Layne.

He tells his story in the incredible book White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, and is taking his tales on the road with singer-songwriter (and huge Syd Barrett fan) Robyn Hitchcock. In Chinese White Bicycles, Boyd reads from his memoirs, and Hitchcock plays the songs.

They make the London debut of their show at the Purcell Rooms at the Southbank Centre on December 1st, 2011. Tickets are now on sale from the SBC box office. The show will mark the approximate 45th anniversary of the first UFO club events.

On the NPR website there's a video (and separate audio download) giving a special, twenty-three minute taster of the show, which you can see through this link.

The instrument most closely associated with Roger Waters, both in his time with Pink Floyd, and his subsequent solo career, is the black Fender Precision bass guitar. Now you have the opportunity to own this yourself - not a replica model, but one plucked from Roger's own instrument collection!

The rather-desirable instrument has been put up for auction through CharityBuzz.com, who recently sold a guitar hand-painted by Ian Emes and signed by Roger along with Nick Mason and David Gilmour, that realised $26,000. This time, the charity to benefit from the eventual winner's generosity is Millennnium Promise, the leading international non-profit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty by 2015.

Roger will sign the bass with a personalized message to the winner, making this a truly one-of-a-kind guitar. To see more details of the instrument, along with your opportunity to place a bid, visit CharityBuzz.com now. The auction closes on Tuesday, August 2nd, at 2:10pm EDT.

Some great news for the many huge Roger Waters fans in Chile - he will be bringing The Wall to your country as part of his 2012 concert schedule which is gradually being unveiled.

Roger and his band will be performing at the Estadio Nacionale, Santiago, Chile, on March 2nd, and tickets are due to go on sale soon through Ticketmaster CL and other official ticketing agents. There will also be a limited RogerWaters.com presale for those of you who have registered there, and shown Chile as one of your places of interest.

More details about this show, and all the others that have been announced so far, can be found in our 2012 Roger Waters Wall Tour zone.

UPDATE: Whilst this show was visible on the RogerWaters.com's tourpage yesterday (July 18th), it has since been removed the following day. FURTHER UPDATE: On July 24th it was confirmed for a second, and final, time!