Just announced this afternoon is another date on the Roger Waters 2012 The Wall Live tour...for our friends in New Zealand, you'll need to head over to the Vector Arena in Auckland, for the show on February 20th, 2012.

Tickets for this show go on general sale on July 11th, 2011, through the normal ticketing agents. As we've done for previous years, you'll find full details of all dates, as they get announced, on The Wall Live 2012 tour in our dedicated tour zone, with a page for each and every concert. Here you'll find venue and ticketing information, pictures, concert reviews, and much more...

UPDATE: the date of this show, whilst initially announced as the 20th, is now February 19th. FURTHER UPDATE, June 30th: The date of this show has reverted to February 20th!

The upcoming book 'Backstage' documents a journey behind the scenes on Pink Floyd's remarkable "Another Lapse" 1989 and "The Division Bell" 1994 tours of Europe. Taken from super-fan Bobby Hassall’s unique perspective - first as a fan jumping a fence to get in to his first show to becoming the adopted fan by the band's crew - and then as a fully paid up crew member himself, Bobby's entertaining story is coupled with extensive behind the scenes coverage and previously unpublished photographs of the huge stages being constructed in arenas and stadiums as well as the memorable Venice concert.

First published in 1991 and distributed through Brain Damage magazine, this edition of 'Backstage', which arrives on July 10th, 2011, is a completely redesigned, updated and expanded version. A must-read for all Pink Floyd fans, Backstage is an insightful look at life behind the scenes of a huge touring operation and is packed with many unique photos and reproductions of tour documents.

You can place your orders now for this book directly through the publishers, www.mindheadpublishing.co.uk.

Tonight, four dates in 2012 for the Roger Waters The Wall Live tour have been announced. Fans in Australia will be able to catch the show in the following places:

• January 27th, 2012 - Burswood Dome, Perth, Australia
• February 1st, 2012 - Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia
• February 7th, 2012 - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia
• February 14th, 2012 - Acer Arena, Sydney, Australia

The Visa pre-sale runs from Monday July 4th at 3pm through to Thursday July 7th at 9am (closing sooner if the allocation runs out). An additional fee will be added to tickets bought during the pre-sale period. The general sale of tickets through Ticketek begins on Monday, July 11th at 9am.

We are expecting further dates in Australia, and other countries, to be announced shortly. Keep checking back for more details as we get them!

Two new books about Pink Floyd have recently appeared in Europe.

The first of these - Pink Floyd La Renaissance - is the same as the recent special magazine published by Vibrations (see our news last Saturday) but with a hardback cover. The book includes interviews with Roger Waters and David Gilmour, rare and unseen photos from French archives (in our experience, always a rich source of unusual shots seldom seen elsewhere), a look at Syd Barrett, a journey through the band's history, a feature on the great work of Hipgnosis over the years, and more.

The second book is written by Michele Mari, has been published in German, French, AND Italian, and is known respectively as "Mr Pink Floyd", "Pink Floyd en Rouge", and "Rosso Floyd". From what we hear, it is an entertaining "semi-fictional" novel about PF and Syd Barrett. It was highly praised in the Italian press, described as "the best novel about rock music ever written"...