Back in October 2008, as part of The City Wakes festival celebrating Syd Barrett, five people who knew Syd in Cambridge in the sixties staged a happening as they had done forty years before, radical Beat poetry, free improvisation, words, sounds and people all in the moving womb of a Floydian light show by Pete Wynne Willson.

This was so much fun, and people seemed enjoy the experience so much, that they did it again, albeit completely differently (of course - that being the nature of a happening) in Bath, in May 2009. With that being so well received, they are returning to Bath for the 2011 event, which is bound to be as popular as the 2008 and 2009 stagings.

Again, Pete Wynne Willson will be doing the light show for All at Once Again: Life, but Improvised. Other people who'll be there will include experimental filmmaker Anthony Stern, Tom Bailey (once of The Thompson Twins), James Mickelson of the UFO Club, legendary beat poet Michael Horovitz, Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon on film, poems and words of mouth, William Pryor, and others. Taking place again at the Chapel Arts Centre in Bath on the evening of June 3rd, 2011, as part of the Bath Fringe, tickets for this truly unique event are now on sale from the Arts Centre itself through this link.

In the meantime, here's a glimpse at what happened at the first happening on October 28th, 2008:

Capitol Records have just announced that it will release a limited edition vinyl set of "An Introduction to Syd Barrett" on April 16th as part of its participation in the annual Record Store Day. The sets will be sold only at participating independent music retailers across the United States, and possibly selected outlets in other countries.

The Syd set will consist of two 180-gram vinyl LPs with a gatefold jacket and printed inner sleeves. Released on October 11th, 2010 on CD and downloadable from iTunes, "An Introduction to Syd Barrett" on EMI/Harvest Records is a new collection that has brought together for the first time the tracks of Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett on one compilation. Check out our review here.

For more information on Record Store Day, visit www.recordstoreday.com.

Last June we told you about Taken By Storm, an indepth film about Thorgerson's life and work as told through his own reflection, his personal archive of never-before seen photographs and films, ex-partner of Hipgnosis Aubrey Powell, and through first hand narratives from some of the most important musicians of our time.

Roddy Bogawa, the man behind the film, is putting the finishing touches to it, and it is premiering on the opening night (March 11th, at 9pm) of the prestigeous SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, USA (see trailer below). It's the first of four screenings at the festival, and Storm himself will be there for most of it. Roddy tells us that "this will be the first time [that Storm will] see the completed film, which does have some really hilarious moments so it'll be interesting to see his reaction (and certainly how he'll respond to all the questions during the Q and A afterwards)".

Just launched is Guitar Interactive, a free, digital magazine which will be of interest to budding guitarists worldwide - and the first issue (online now) heavily features David Gilmour's techniques and abilities.

The magazine takes avantage of its medium by including, alongside the article text, video tutorials to guide people through the concepts raised. The first issue runs to around 120 pages, and the publishers say that there's almost five hours of video content.

With David taking the lion's share of attention, you can read about his lead guitar style, an analysis of his success, his slide guitar skills, his "rhythm technique" explained (!), his blues playing examined, and to top it all off there's a review of the "David Gilmour Relic" edition of the Fender Black Strat. Check it all out now at www.iguitarmag.com/issue1.