Tributes are being paid to Alex McAvoy, the Glasgow-born actor who has just died, aged 77. The actor began his acting career as a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and is probably best remembered for his role as The Teacher in Pink Floyd's The Wall movie, and the subsequent Final Cut video EP.

We have a number of small news items for you concerning the reunion of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters at the London Live 8 concert, being held on July 2nd. As a sidenote, today is of course, exactly 24 years since the final time Roger appeared with the others live, in the final Wall concert at Earls Court.

News of the band has been all over the media, worldwide, with many reports rehashing the same details and quotes (as seen here on Sunday/Monday). One of the more unusual stories appeared in the Cambridge Evening News (and subsequently repeated in the daily press). Rosemary Breen, Roger (Syd) Barrett's sister, told him about his old band mates reforming for the Live 8 concert - news which was met with complete indifference, apparently.

As we have reported previously, Roger Waters has completed his long-awaited opera and last month we posted the press release. The latest news is that the official sites, www.roger-waters.com and www.ca-ira.com, have been updated to include the cover art of Ca Ira (and also the statement Roger made at the start of the week concerning the Live 8 reunion). The cover of Ca Ira ("An Opera In Three Acts") includes the blue-white-red of the tricolor - the French flag.

The remastered, 20-bit reissue of Pink Floyd "London 1966-1967", which features a full length studio version of "Interstellar Overdrive" and the otherwise unheard "Nick's Boogie", was due to be released on June 20th. We heard from the company releasing it yesterday who told us that the date has slipped to July 4th. No further delays are anticipated.