A quick alert for - principally - those of you in the UK. If you find yourself with little to do on Saturday evening, especially with the current Covid restrictions, you could do worse than tune in to the Sky Arts television channel (now available on Freeview channel 11, as well as through other providers including Sky and Virgin Media).
From 6:30pm until 12:45am, there's a feast of Pink Floyd related goodies. Starting off with the band's Live At Pompeii film, it's then PULSE. Prior to its domestic release on October 2nd, Roger's Us + Them is then shown, and the evening is concluded with The Story Of Wish You Were Here.
For the channel to be showing Us + Them just about a week prior to release is an unexpected treat. Our thanks to Dave Rogers for letting us know about this Floydian evening.
With thanks to Michael Nickel, we have two bits of news aimed principally at our friends in Germany.
In that country's stores at the moment are two magazines which may well take your interest. The first is Classic Rock Magazine (cover date September 2020), which has a multiple page report on the genesis of Pink Floyd's 1983 album, The Final Cut - the last with Roger Waters still in the band. "Pink Floyd: The last common litter and THE FINAL CUT" delves deep into the background of the album.
Elsewhere in the magazine is a major feature on Genesis, looking at their album, Selling England By The Pound. More details including ordering online through ClassicRock.net.
The other magazine that you might want to pick up is Rolling Stone's German edition (again with a cover date of September 2020). In an article headed "Pink Floyd: This crazy diamond", they take a multiple page look at the genesis of a different album - in their case (and hinted to by the title of the article) it is 1975's Wish You Were Here, which they describe as "a sublime album about the burning of youth - and a hymn to the lost Syd Barrett".
Jimi Hendrix is featured elsewhere in the magazine, and indeed Jimi is the cover star. More details and ordering via RollingStone.de.
Hopefully many of you have now received your copies of the truly excellent Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets Live At The Roundhouse - out today - and we'd love to know what you think of it! Do please get in touch to let us know your thoughts...
As is normal for this sort of release, there's been plenty of interviews (indeed, we've included some here on the site already) but today there's been one with a bit of a difference. Nick has spoken to the team at the legendary Abbey Road Studios whilst he was there during the mixing of the album. Sitting in the reconfigured Studio Three, Nick talks about the studios, Pink Floyd, and the Saucerful Of Secrets project:
On the eve of the much anticipated release of Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets: Live At The Roundhouse, there's a couple of things involving Guy Pratt which may help ease you through the wait for the postman to deliver the goodies to your house!
The first is the start of an ongoing series of podcast interviews conducted by Guy with his Saucers bandmate, Gary Kemp. Rockonteurs aims to bring the "real stories behind real music", promising "exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes". The first podcast is a 40 minute chat with a further fellow bandmate - none other than Nick Mason! Episode two is also now available, and features Sir Bob Geldof, who of course played Pink in The Wall movie. Later episodes will find Gary and Guy talking to Phil Manzanera, Trevor Horn, Chris Difford, and others.
You can hear and subscribe to the podcast via your favourite podcast service; here it is on Spotify:
If that's not enough to keep you going, Guy has also been speaking to RollingStone.com in a lengthy, and typically honest and revealing interview, which you really should check out here. Find out more about his background, the artists he played with, how he got the job with Pink Floyd, and brings the story up to date with a lot of background to the Saucers. It's a great read!
ORDERING INFORMATION: If you are yet to order the various editions, you can do so through the following direct links, whilst giving Brain Damage much needed help with running costs without costing you any extra. We really appreciate it too!
At the time of writing this, more than 23 million people have already viewed the trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Dune, Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic, and interest in the music included in the trailer has skyrocketed.
In the 1970s, director Alejandro Jodorowsky never got past plans for a Dune film, and famously approached Pink Floyd about writing the score. With this new version, director Denis Villeneuve decided to give a serious nod to that, and includes Eclipse (from The Dark Side Of The Moon) as the key underscore of the trailer.
The legendary Hans Zimmer came up with the new version for the trailer, which involved a hefty cast of musicians and singers. He and his choral contractor Edie Lehmann Boddicker put together a 32-voice Los Angeles ensemble, with 12 performed the lyrics with choral parts by the remaining 20. Lehmann Boddicker said: "He wanted to pay homage to the original, very back-phrased sound, a little spaced-out, so the vocals would not sound urgent. There's a kind of joy happening in the track, a lot of hopefulness. It's not despondent, just very peaceful and sounding not of this planet."
Musicians included in the trailer were programmer Steven Doar, Chinese-American cellist Tina Guo, Colombian bassist Juan Garcia-Herreros and English guitarist Guthrie Govan (well known for his work with Steven Wilson). Zimmer told Variety in June: "I can keep a lot of musicians busy – in Australia, in Europe, in England, in America. I'm sort of working on four continents. Time zones are not my friend right now."
Our thanks to those who have got in touch regarding this, including Vaughan Burton. Here's the trailer for the film, including THAT music:
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A quick alert for - principally - those of you in the UK. If you find yourself with little to do on Saturday evening, especially with the current Covid restrictions, you could do worse than tune in to the Sky Arts television channel (now available on Freeview channel 11, as well as through other providers including Sky and Virgin Media).
With thanks to Michael Nickel, we have two bits of news aimed principally at our friends in Germany.
