The line-up for the 42nd Belfast Festival has been announced, and includes an evening event with Nick Mason, talking about life in Pink Floyd and the band's history.

Part of the "Sounds" set of events, the talk forms part of the promotion for his forthcoming and much anticipated book, "INSIDE OUT", which is released in October in Europe (and in Spring 2005 in the US). The Festival promotional literature quotes the following for the event:

We have had loads of emails from people across the world who have been experiencing problems downloading the two new Roger Waters songs from the "official download partner" sites. It seems that the sites in question are only allowing US residents the chance to download the new songs, and non-US residents are denied access to them.

Naturally, not an ideal state of affairs, and so we raised our concerns with Mark Fenwick, Roger's manager. All our non-US visitors will be delighted to know that Mark contacted us today with the news that the songs will be available very soon outside the USA.

The exact date is not known, but the download sites are expected to be the international versions of the US sites, including iTunes, Napster and Musicmatch. In the meantime, you can listen to streamed versions on Roger's website - RogerWaters.com - at no cost.

We have just received details of a new edition of the movie version of Roger Waters searing epic, Pink Floyd The Wall, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of the album.

Appearing on November 1st worldwide (certain countries might be a few days later), this Limited Edition re-issue will be packaged in a deluxe DVD digi-pak designed to look like The Wall, with debossed brick work and a see through slipcase.

The inside of the digi-pak will feature a photo montage of film shots and a reproduction of the original film poster, which is the self-same poster that we recently sourced and supplied to Roger's management office! All artwork and design has been co-coordinated by original Floyd designers Storm Thorgerson and Peter Curzon. This new edition also features new subtitles, but all other special features are as before.

With thanks to Mark over at Q/Mojo, we can now bring you more details on the forthcoming special edition magazine devoted to Pink Floyd.

The magazine comes out as a Q Special Edition in the UK, and a MOJO Special Edition overseas, including the US. Links to purchase the magazine via mail order are shown below, if your local retailer fails to stock it, or more likely, sells out quickly!