It was with great pleasure that Brain Damage attended the press launch of Storm Thorgerson's London exhibition - "Taken By Storm", last night. The exhibition, a showcase for Storm’s artwork including many fantastic Pink Floyd items, is being held at the John Martin Gallery in Chelsea, London, from September 22nd until October 9th 2004.

In an effort to corner the market in new books that he has had a hand in, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has put down his drumsticks and picked up his pen yet again! Nick contributes to the forthcoming "Goodwood Festival of Speed" book by Richard Sutton, which is published on October 4th 2004.

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.