A new double CD, Summer In The Sixties, was released worldwide on the Virgin TV/EMI label on May 17th. The CD includes See Emily Play by Pink Floyd amongst some fifty tracks for those nostalgia fiends. It has been brought out to accompany a major season of programmes on BBC Four, a UK digital cable and satellite channel.

The BBC today broadcast "Fender Heaven" on BBC Radio 4, which was a fascinating look at the late Leo Fender's creation - the Stratocaster. The history of the guitar, the feelings of major musicians who use it as their tool of work, and the stories of various collectors, were all presented in an amusing and absorbing 30 minutes.

The Dutch Wharf Festival (Festival Aan De Werf), held in Utrecht, Netherlands from May 20th to 29th, included a show called Reiziger In Space. The show took place on May 20th and 21st, at 9:30pm, and our friend Charles, from the great FloydStuff.com, kindly provided us with this review.

A revised version of Pink Floyd drummer and gentleman racer Nick Mason's 1998 book aimed at petrolheads, "Into The Red: Twenty-one classic cars that shaped a century of motor sport" (known as "At The Limit" in the US), is being published by Virgin Books on September 9th this year.