Some interesting news for the guitar enthusiasts amongst you... with thanks to the guitar effects expert Pete Cornish, you can watch the construction of David Gilmour's new All Tube Pedalboard as it takes shape in time for his 2006 tour, which begins in just six and a half weeks!

We posted a story yesterday about 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, which we reported on in good faith.

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.