Our Facebook page regulars were aware yesterday of a new interview with Roger Waters, conducted by Riz Khan on the Al Jazeera television channel. With the very short notice we had of the interview, it was the best way to alert people to it - so if you haven't yet done so, join us on Facebook now!

In the interview, Roger talked about his campaign for the rights of the Palestinian people and why, more than 30 years after he wrote the globally-acclaimed album 'The Wall', he is focusing on another wall - the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank.

Roger touched on the music, and the current tour, during the chat, but most of it was devoted to his views on the situation in the region. Some will agree with him, others will disagree - it is, of course, a controversial subject, but you can see the interview in full here:

This coming week, BBC 6 Music feature an early BBC recording of Pink Floyd (no doubt from the Paris Theatre in 1971), in the Gideon Coe show from 9pm to midnight, on Wednesday March 9th. Other artists included on Gideon's show that night are "rugged violinist" Seth Lakeman, Geno Washington, and an early session from Courtney Love's Hole.

There are three ways to listen to BBC 6 Music - via www.bbc.co.uk/6music (click the Listen Live button), via DAB digital radio, or via digital satellite television (Sky), digital cable (Virgin Media), and Freeview. It'll also be available via the BBC's iPlayer service. More details here. Our thanks to David Haddock for the info... 

Our very best wishes go to Snowy White today (March 3rd), to mark his 63rd birthday!

Snowy, who in the last few years performed with Roger Waters on his Dark Side of the Moon tour, and is now on Roger's current Wall tour, has also toured with his own band to much acclaim. Of course, Snowy has had a long history with Roger and Pink Floyd...

Recording a guitar part in 1976 to bridge Pigs On The Wing 1 & 2 on the Animals album 8-track cartridge, he also played on the 1977 Animals tour, on Richard Wright's Wet Dream album (1978), and The Wall concerts of 1980.

After devoting a lot of time to solo material in the early eighties, he started work with Roger Waters on his solo material and has been a key member of his band ever since. He has been busy on his own projects, too, with his band The Snowy White Blues Project thrilling audiences across the UK and Europe.

Have a great day, Snowy!

Back on November 13th 2010, we gave you an exclusive update on the commemorative release of the 1990 Berlin Wall concert by Roger Waters. This marks the 21st anniversary year of the show, and should keep us all going until the release (both theatrically, and on Blu-ray, as confirmed by Roger himself on his Facebook page the other day) of the current tranche of Wall concerts.

Whilst there were initial plans to release it on Blu-ray, these have now been dropped. However, Universal has lined up a special 2DVD/2CD package (as well as a standard edition). It includes previously unreleased material as detailed below, including the original concert edit - it'll be great to finally get the concert as it happened, rather than the release version which tidied up the problems by using footage from the dress rehearsals. Those of us lucky enough to be there on the night will never forget the sight of Roger tap-dancing during the power cut - and soon, everyone should be able to enjoy this and much more!

We also have the release dates (and ordering details) for each region, and these vary from as early as next week for a couple of countries! 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: It seems that, despite listing as a 2DVD set and showing the expanded contents, this set is now shipping ONLY as a one-DVD (and 2CD) set. We've tried to get information from Universal regarding this, to no avail, and as the release has not been done in conjunction with Roger (or his management) they have no idea about this either. If anyone has seen/received a 2DVD set, please let us know!