There's always a lot of interest when the highly-regarded musicians that David Gilmour and Roger Waters include in their bands, take to the road. Roger's guitarist, Chester Kamen, and David's bassist, Guy Pratt, have both got some interesting shows coming up that a number of you may want to attend.

Chester Kamen's new band, Modern Breakfast Quartet, make their live debut at the Inn On The Green in London's Portobello Road tonight (April 27th) at 9pm. Tickets for entrance are a very reasonable £5, and more information on the band can be found at myspace.com/modernbreakfastquartet.

Once he's done with that, he's flying over the Atlantic to join Jon Lord and Guy Pratt as they perform Jon's Concerto for Group and Orchestra in São Paolo, Brazil. The concert on May 2nd at the Virada Cultural includes the Orquestra Sinfonica Municipal, and is expected to be extremely popular. More info on that show can be found here.

Our latest competition takes a look back through time to the summer of 1975, when Pink Floyd performed their sole UK date for that year in front of an agog audience at Knebworth Park,  in Hertfordshire.

The show saw support from acts as diverse as Captain Beefheart, Roy Harper, and Monty Python star Graham Chapman, before the Floyd kicked their set off with a Spitfire fly past.

The promoter, Freddy Bannister, and his wife Wendy, have put together a special offer package for Brain Damage visitors, of a reproduction programme from the event, and the t-shirt which the roadies wore for the show. Both can be bought for the special price of £14.99 plus postage, rather than the normal price of £20.40 plus postage. And, they've given us one of these packages for a lucky BD visitor to win in our latest competition!

Our thanks to all of you who took the time and effort to enter our competition to see the Australian Pink Floyd perform The Wall in its entirety at London's Wembley Arena next week. We've gone through all the entries, and the lucky person who will be attending the show (wearing a new Aussie Floyd t-shirt) with a chum is a thrilled Anne MacKenzie, from Rochester in Kent.

Congratulations and we hope you enjoy the show!

Beautiful spring weather greeted Nick Mason yesterday as he took his Ferrari 512 to a track test at Cadwell Park in the East Midlands of the UK (as mentioned here).

Nick flew to the circuit from London at the controls of his custom painted Squirrel helicopter, and was soon to be seen hurtling around the track at 150mph (240km/h) as part of event, organised by Octane Magazine, 911 and Porsche World, to be featured in these publications soon. As and when we know more about the publication date(s) we will let you know.

His Ferrari was in a comparison drive with a £2.4m Porsche 917, and you can hear Nick's own thoughts about the day, and the future of Pink Floyd, in the 4 minute video report that the Grimsby Telegraph have on their website this afternoon - just click the thumbnail to the left...

UPDATE: Massive Floyd fan, and BD visitor, Alan Tuplin, had the opportunity of interviewing Nick for the Market Rasen Mail, and his report - with pictures - can be read through this link. In his chat with Nick, Mason talked of his love of cars over the years, how he doesn't worry about their perceived monetary value, and touched on his life in Pink Floyd.