Today saw the publication in the US, by Billboard Books, of "Christie's Rock & Pop Memorabilia" by Peter Doggett and Sarah Hodgson. The book was published by Pavilion Books in the UK a few months ago, and is a wonderful addition to anyone's collection. It is a large-format, full-colour hardback, running to 192 pages.

We are just putting the finishing touches to our review of this title, which will be online in the next few days. The book covers items by all artists that have been sold at auction, and includes some of the rarest items ever seen (and some astronomical prices, too!) shown in well-reproduced pictures. As an example, a colour poster for the legendary winter 1967 UK Hendrix/Floyd tour, signed by Jimi Hendrix himself! The book also provides a guide to buying genuine items, and how to spot rip-offs.

The book can be bought through all normal retailers, and also through our special links at Amazon.com, UK, France, and Germany.

Further to the news posted previously about the forthcoming Roland Petit Pink Floyd Ballet, the company who are participating in the ballet, the Asami Maki Ballet Tokyo, have put a short video of the 1997 PF Ballet which was put on in Marseille, France, on their website.

Click here to see the lower quality 64kbps version, or click here for the higher bandwidth high quality 300kbps version. The ballet is being performed on February 7th and 8th. Full details (in Japanese) are on the flyer we posted last month, and selected details are on the Asami Maki Ballet's website. Thanks again to Sohnosuke Imai...

Further to the news we posted last month (January 2004) concerning the Danish film which includes an audition for Roger Waters' touring band, our friends Mark Skiffard and Anders Schunk from UsAndThem.dk have put together a page with all the information they currently have on this film, which can be found by following this link. Brain Damage are in contact with the producer of the film, and hopefully we will have more information for you soon, in particular relating to an international release, either in movie theatres, or on DVD.

New York band Scissor Sisters, who have got into the UK top ten with their "interesting" cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb, have been interviewed by the BBC Online website, posted today. "We're not the most conventional rock or pop band," admits lead singer Jake Shears, "We don't look or sound like everything else," adds his multi-instrumental co-founder Babydaddy, "and we have no desire to."