On Sunday, May 17th, legendary producer Joe Boyd discusses and reads from White Bicycles, his funny and fascinating memoir of the legendary musicians he launched, managed or supported including Nick Drake, Muddy Waters, Fleetwood Mac, the Incredible String Band and Pink Floyd.

The event, part of the English Originals Folk Festival 2009, is being held at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, at 4:30pm that day, and tantalisingly is billed as "Joe Boyd and guests in conversation". Some of you will recall he did a similar talk in May 2006 as part of the Brighton Festival, and he had Robert Wyatt on stage with him.

This new talk promises to be equally as fascinating, whoever is guesting, and tickets, priced at £3.50, are on sale now here, or phone 0121-780-3333.

Warner Home Video are, at long last, releasing an official DVD of the 1970 movie Zabriskie Point in the US. The DVD hits US stores on June 30th, 2009, and means that Pink Floyd fans in that country will no longer need to suffer the various pirate versions that are around, most of which are of poor quality.

The movie of course features some very interesting Pink Floyd music in it - otherwise unreleased alternate versions of the band's songs, such as "Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up" (a close relation of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene") alongside some new songs.

One of Michelangelo Antonioni's more noted movies, pre-orders for the DVD - at time of writing, with a 25% discount - can be placed with Amazon.com.

In the latest fund-raising effort in aid of The Syd Barrett Trust, the book that Syd created by hand in late 1964/early 1965 went up for auction last night on eBay.

Fart Enjoy was a book he came up with for a friend of his - Andrew Rawlinson - and has only been on public display once: as part of the fascinating Interstellar exhibition held in Paris at the end of 2003 (an illustrated report of which can be read here). A scaled-down reproduction of Fart Enjoy was also included with the deluxe edition of the 40th anniversary release of Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.

The auction is set to run for 10 days, and within just a few hours of it going live, the bidding has already reached (at time of writing) £10,500. Click here to visit the auction, which includes a passage written by Rawlinson giving the story behind the book. You can buy prints (framed or unframed) of pages from the book here, and visit Syd-Barrett-Trust.org.uk to find out more about their work and aims. The very best of luck to those of you who will be bidding on the item... it's for a great cause.

UPDATE: bidding closed at a healthy £12,600 which will certainly benefit The Syd Barrett Trust nicely.

The UK's Classic Rock magazine begin a new quarterly offshoot title devoted to all aspects of progressive rock, this month. Prog, as it is called, will be on sale in UK newsagents and stores from March 25th.

The first issue will grab the attention of Brain Damage readers, for one of the main artists covered are Pink Floyd. The magazine also has featured and interviews with the likes of Rush, Yes, Marillion, Coheed & Cambria and Rick Wakeman, as well as coverage of new, up and coming prog rock acts.

As with the normal monthly Classic Rock, it should be available in selected countries worldwide as an import.