We mentioned earlier the extremely rare French "Arnold Layne" promo, shown in this month's Record Collector magazine. Our friend Hervé Denoyelle, from whose collection it was taken, has told us that next months issue has a full article, prepared by Joe Geesin (son of Ron), which includes many rarely seen picture sleeves from countries such as Angola, Brazil and Singapore. The issue hits UK newsstands at the end of this month.

Last month we alerted you to the launch of John Cavanagh's excellent book about Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, being held in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Scotsman newspaper has reported on this successful event - in fact, too successful! "...this was no regular Teenage Fanclub gig, just the world’s most affable band helping their friend, John Cavanagh, to launch his new book, but still there was not enough space in this roomy bar to accommodate all interested parties.

High Fidelity Review are including a "reader's vote" award, Best High Resolution Title of 2003, in the forthcoming Surround Music Awards 2003. Twelve of their writers independently selected their top six discs (released after December 14th 2002), and their votes were collated to produce the final six contenders, believed to be the year’s finest releases on both DVD-Audio and SACD formats.

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and pianist Jools Holland, both at today's Buckingham Palace Investiture Ceremony to receive their CBE and OBE respectively, said they were more nervous receiving honours from the Queen than playing concerts for large crowds. Holland and Gilmour both said they could never have imagined their music would take them as far as Buckingham Palace. Gilmour, receiving a CBE for services to music, joked that the Queen had probably never even listened to Pink Floyd.