Announced this evening by Columbia Records is a special edition of David Gilmour's On An Island. The album was originally released earlier this year, on March 6th (David's birthday).

Hitting the shelves on November 20th in the UK/Europe, and November 21st in the US/Canada (other regions dates to be confirmed), the "expanded deluxe edition" features a bonus DVD of live performances, alongside the regular CD of the album itself.

Wendy Bannister, wife of the legendary concert promotor Freddy Bannister, has contacted us with details of a very special prize they are giving to one lucky Brain Damage visitor!

As many of you will know, they have put together some very special box sets, collecting together high quality reproductions of rare memorabilia, and relating the true stories, from the various concerts they put on in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s.

This week, legendary film director Adrian Maben visits a film festival in Italy to receive a career award.

Adrian has had a long, productive career. Within the Floyd community, he is best known for Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii, in its original cinema released format, and the two subsequent expanded versions, and for the DVD which accompanied the double CD set of Roger Waters' opera, Ca Ira.

Back in October 2004 we reported on the then-forthcoming US and Canadian Region 1 release of the "Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story" DVD. The DVD featured wonderful all-new cover art, shown to the right.

The cover was designed by acclaimed British artist Mark Wilkinson (who produced covers for the likes of Marillion, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and many others), and he has got back in contact with us.

He is having an online auction during the month of October, selling some original paintings including the Syd painting.