In Argentina, Wall mania has gripped Buenos Aires and in order to satisfy overwhelming public demand a record breaking seventh River Plate show has been announced, taking place on March 17th, 2012; ticketing dates to be announced. The first five Stadium shows sold out in 48 hours, causing promoter, Roberto Costa of Pop Art, to hastily add a sixth show to satisfy fans who had queued all night for tickets. The sixth show sold out in a day and now Roger Waters has announced a seventh show at the famous River Plate Stadium, a new record, beating the previous holders, The Rolling Stones, who played five nights on their first visit to South America back in 1998.

As a side note, but certainly VERY significant to a number of you, Roger's official site notes that the Brazilian dates are being rescheduled due to public demand for the extra shows in Argentina. Looking at the schedule we're wondering if it might just be one of the shows moved (the one originally scheduled for the 17th) but as and when details come through, we will let you all know.

It's not just Argentina getting more chances to see Roger Waters presenting The Wall Live next year - three new dates have just been announced for Australia.

Our friends down under can see the show on January 28th at the Burswood Dome in Perth, February 4th at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, and February 11th at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. The RogerWaters.com presale for these shows will begin next week, and the general sale of tickets through Ticketek begins shortly after.

This evening, we heard the sad news that writer Nick Sedgwick has passed away this week. Well know for his music-related material, he has long been involved with Roger Waters, and his work has appeared in liner notes and tour programmes.

On the Roger Waters Facebook page this evening, Roger talks of his sadness, and of a manuscript that Nick had written and that Roger now intends to publish. For those of you who are yet to be on Facebook, Roger's note is shared below:

We've now got more information on the forthcoming issue of Classic Rock presents Prog which features Pink Floyd's Meddle, that we mentioned one week ago in the article about Classic Rock's monthly which features Floyd too.

The Prog magazine goes on sale in UK stores next Wednesday (August 31st). Inside there's 12 pages of coverage on Pink Floyd, including a 40th Anniversary celebration of Meddle, and how the album changed the sound of both Pink Floyd and prog rock forever, which features brand new interviews with Nick Mason, engineer John Leckie and more. The magazine also discusses the forthcoming Why Pink Floyd? campaign, with Nick re-assessing every Pink Floyd studio album and engineer Andy Jackson takes us behind the scenes of unearthing the hidden treasures that make up the new reissues. Plus Storm Thorgerson has exclusively designed the actual front cover of the magazine for them!

Elsewhere in the magazine, there's also interviews with Gentle Giant, Dream Theater, Opeth, Primus, David Bedford, The Flower Kings, TesseracT and more, and a free CD as well.

If you cannot buy instore, you can also purchase this through the publisher's retail arm which should list this particular edition very shortly (we presume in a week or so).