With peculiar timing (surely not to tie in with the forthcoming David Gilmour concerts in the US and Canada?!) US satellite radio station XM has got a feast of Floyd coming up. Their specialist rock station "Deep Tracks" (channel 40) is focusing on the band over the next few months, airing a 1970 BBC-recorded concert, and a six part documentary ("Echoes - The History Of Pink Floyd") about the band's history.

Details are now emerging of a couple of special editions of David Gilmour's new album, On An Island, which hits the stores on March 6th in the UK and Europe, and March 7th in the US.

At long last, we can now bring you full details of David Gilmour's new album, On An Island, which hits the stores on March 6th in the UK and Europe, and March 7th in the US.

The official DVD of the Live 8 concerts, held in July, and featuring the historic reunion between Roger Waters and Pink Floyd, was released on November 7th. The quality of the DVD, the proceeds of which go to charity, has impressed many people. For those who've not seen it yet, it included a nice sequence in the extras of the band in their rehearsal studio for Wish You Were Here, and of each band member talking about the reunion.

One of the things that a number of people have assumed was that the Floyd concert footage was broadly the same (if not identical) to that broadcast on the BBC.

However, our friend Dave Carlin noticed a number of differences, and ended up doing a full analysis of the band's live segment, comparing the BBC and official DVD footage and timings.