Yesterday's issue of Poland's most reputable newspaper, Rzeczpospolita, reported that David Gilmour has invited famous Polish musicians to work on his new album.

We have been aware that David has been hard at work, first in London's Abbey Road Studios, then in his own Astoria houseboat studio, on new material, for the last couple of months or so. This is from impeccable sources close to the musician. The article in Rzeczpospolita gives a little more detail on progress, and here's a translation of the story for you...

Nick Mason's great new book "Inside Out - A Personal History Of Pink Floyd" is selling well in various countries, and is now available in the US. To coincide with this, Nick is doing an exhaustive round of interviews and book signings at the moment across the country, the first of which is this evening in Seattle.

The promotional schedule proper kicked off with Nick being interviewed (briefly) yesterday morning on various radio stations. The short time afforded to the interviews gave little time for much insight, but some interesting different questions were posed.

Well-respected, top English producer/engineer Nick Griffiths, long time associate of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters, sadly passed away on March 20th, aged 53, following complications after a transplant operation, it has been confirmed. The funeral near his Sussex home in England took place in private, with many of his friends and colleagues in attendance.

Further to our last news item about the US tour of "Taken By Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson", which will be travelling in the USA in 2005/2006, we now have news of the second venue on the tour! The first stop for the exhibition is Chicago at Inspire Fine Art at 435 East Illinois Street at the River East Art Center, where it will run May 6th - June 5th.