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Roger Waters wins at Concert Industry Awards Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 08 February 2012

pollstarThe 23rd annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards took place Friday night at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California.

Celebrating all the very best of 2011 from the large numbers of tours and concert productions, the event was crammed with a large number of categories. Unsurprisingly a number of Roger Waters/Pink Floyd related collaborators picked up awards. Whilst he didn't win "Major Tour of the Year" (Lady Gaga was awarded this one), Roger did - quite rightly - win the "Most Creative Stage Production" award, for his incredible tour of The Wall, which from beginning to end stands at 191 shows at time of writing this.

Other winners included Clair ("Sound Company of the Year") who are responsible for sound production on Roger's tour.

 
Pink Floyd The Wall interview on upcoming Rockline Radio Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Tuesday, 07 February 2012

Rockline radio showOn Wednesday, February 22nd, the syndicated US rock radio programme Rockline will be airing a special archive episode featuring the surviving members of Pink Floyd, looking at The Wall, which of course soon appears as upcoming Immersion and Experience editions. David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Roger Waters discuss the album with host Bob Coburn. Initial reports incorrectly stated that it would be a new interview - it's not.

For details of the various US radio stations that carry the Rockline broadcasts, many of whom stream their output live across the world via their websites, visit RockLineRadio.com.

 
Roger Waters confirms Boston Fenway Park Wall concert Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Monday, 06 February 2012

Boston Herald - Roger Waters The Wall Live comingFinally confirmed this afternoon with ticketing information is the July 1st Roger Waters Wall concert at Boston's historic Fenway Park. The venue was one of the places in the US where Roger did initial lighting/projection tests to see whether his idea of playing in baseball stadiums would work.

The RogerWaters.com presales take place from February 13th; a small number of advance tickets will be available to those who have registered their interest in this particular city. General sale tickets will go on sale on February 20th through this link to Ticketmaster.com. The public sale will also see a limited number of VIP packages made available for each show on the tour. For those who've not seen it already, at the end of January 2012 the Boston Herald posted the picture to the left, which preceeded the official announcement from Roger's team today...

 
Taken By Storm exhibition to open at Newcastle gallery Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Thursday, 02 February 2012

Storm Thorgerson, May 2009Storm Thorgerson's frankly unmissable "Taken By Storm" exhibition, previously seen at London's gallery@oxo in 2009 (our review here), is now heading up to the north of England. The exhibition opens at the Opus Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne next Monday (February 6th), and runs until March 16th, 2012. As before, entrance is free.

Celebrating some 40 years of creating iconic artwork for not just Pink Floyd, but other artists such as Led Zeppelin, Muse, The Mars Volta, and Peter Gabriel, "Taken By Storm" is a great chance to see some of the most memorable and disturbing yet intriguing album covers, presented in their best state, enlarged and pristine: big and bold like the music they seek to represent.

Running for over a month, it is a wonderful opportunity to see some truly rare pieces - some familiar, others not so - in a gallery setting. The quality and vibrancy of their presentation is enthralling; the following shots give an idea of how the show has been laid out previously. You really do owe it to yourself (and to Storm!) to pay the exhibition a visit if you are able to...

Storm Thorgerson May 2009 launch Storm Thorgerson May 2009 launch
Storm Thorgerson May 2009 launch Storm Thorgerson May 2009 launch

The exhibition is also commemorated in print form by the similarly excellent "Taken By Storm" which can be ordered through the following links: Amazon UK, Amazon US/International, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, or Amazon France. If you live outside these countries, don't worry - Amazon stores will ship the book worldwide.

EXHIBITION DETAILS This exhibition is open to the public from February 6th, through to March 16th 2012 at Opus Fine Art, Milburn House, Dean Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1NR. For more details, including opening hours, visit Opus-Art.com.

 
New video interview with Nick Mason Print E-mail
Written by Matt   
Wednesday, 01 February 2012

Nick Mason in New ZealandJust released is a four part video interview with Nick Mason, shot while in New Zealand for the 2012 NZ Vintage Car Club Rally by Richard Bossleman, and running for around 40 minutes. He spoke with Yahoo! Autos after doing some laps around the Manfeild circuit on the North Island last month in a V8 Gulf-GT40 Ford.

Nick Mason was in New Zealand to appear at a vintage car rally event at Manfeild, where he drove a rare 1934 Alfa Romeo GT and the GT40 in two races - the Manfeild Pomeroy Event - that form part of the New Zealand International Vintage Car Rally.

The interview provides a fascinating look inside the world of Nick's car collection, and his thoughts on cars of various makes and disciplines. Of course, no interview with Nick would go by without the smallest of mentions of Pink Floyd, and this is no exception to that rule. You can view all four parts below:

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