London's Barbican Hall hosts a special evening in May as a tribute to the late Syd Barrett. The event, on May 10th (the day before Roger Waters plays two nights at the capital's Earls Court as part of his DarkSide Of The Moon tour), promises special guests and rare film footage.

Billed as "Madcap's Last Laugh" the event kicks off at 7:30pm and forms part of The Barbican's Only Connect series, which sets out to explore the boundaries where music, film and art meet.

This month's issue (cover date April 2007) of the UK's Guitar Techniques magazine includes a fascinating, three page interview with Dave Kilminster, the guitarist currently performing on Roger Waters' 2007 tour alongside Snowy White and Andy Fairweather-Low.

The article is also illustrated with a nice selection of in-concert shots, showing some of the lighting and pyro effects currently in use on Roger's tour.

An update on Roger's 2007 Dark Side Of The Moon US tour has just arrived from his manager - the Hartford CT show at the New England Dodge Music Center has moved FROM July 13th TO July 10th. This is so that a show at Darien Lake PAC, Darien Center, NY can be added in on July 13th... very good news for some!

Our tour pages have been updated accordingly, as has the Gig Calendar...

Nick Mason brought a distinct Pink Floyd touch to the 32nd Retromobile, which was staged in the south of Paris between February 16th - 25th (which we reported on here). At the exhibition, amongst the beautiful cars from his collection were images from the band's past, and even a drumkit!

He enthused to Autoweek: “It’s the scale of the thing. When one thinks of car shows, you think of a couple of stalls selling parts and headlamps. Here you see acres and acres of old headlamps!”