With the reunion of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters at the London Live 8 concert just days away, we've had some more international TV broadcast details, and have news of more free tickets for the show, being given away this week, along with news of the DVD to be released.

As a sidenote, Brain Damage correspondent Bruce Tippen spoke to Nick on Sunday at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (more on that event tomorrow). Upon being asked how rehearsals were going, Nick said that they hadn't actually started them yet! Nick also made this remark to others, and the story was quickly picked up by various newspapers and other websites.

As the reunion of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters at the London Live 8 concert gets closer, we've had some more international TV broadcast details, and also comments from organiser Bob Geldof concerning the Floyd's involvement in the show.

Our Live 8 broadcast info pages, broken down on a country-by-country basis, have been updated with the additional coverage that we've heard about from helpful BD visitors. Obviously we welcome any additional information or corrections to the information on these pages.

Yet more concerning the reunion of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters at the London Live 8 concert, being held on July 2nd in Hyde Park, of which the excitement within the Floyd community continues to build as the news sinks in, including a chance to win tickets to the show!

Rare Pink Floyd items appear from time to time at the various sales held at the big auction houses. However, a sale (Rock & Film Memorabilia) on April 27th at Bonhams of Knightsbridge, one of the largest auction houses in the UK, included a very rare item indeed...

The single-sided Joker's Wild EP, featuring a youthful David Gilmour, was a private pressing of 50 copies. Recorded in 1966 at the Regent Sound Studios in London, all the copies of the five track record were given to family, friends and supporters of the band. The one that was being auctioned was given to a school friend of Gilmour's.

Consequently, it is extremely unusual to ever see a copy being offered. Indeed, Bonhams and Record Collector magazine have placed the Jokers Wild record at joint 53rd in their One Hundred Rarest Records survey. The estimate for the record, lot 358, was £800-1000, but in the end sold for £420 plus buyers premium and tax (a total of £504) which secured the record and a copy on CD.