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More rare Pink Floyd pictures

Written by Matt

Saturday, 13 September 2003

More rare pictures have emerged of the Floyd from the seventies, courtesy of photographer Robert Ellis's extensive archives. There are a huge number of pictures from 1968 to 1979, all viewable at www.repfoto.com.

The pictures are due to appear as part of the forthcoming Interstellar exhibition at Paris's Cite de la Musique, which we reported on some time ago. Hopefully we'll have more information on this soon; we are in contact with the curator of the exhibition and are awaiting some official confirmation of the details, before we can share them with you...

BBC Dark Side documentary

Written by Matt

Saturday, 13 September 2003

Political correspondent Matthew Parris, an unlikely commentator, hosts "Welcome To The Dark Side", to be broadcast on the UK's BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday September 16th. Broadcast at 13:30hrs BST (GMT+1) it lasts for 30 minutes, and is described thus: "Matthew Parris sheds a little light on [DSOTM]. Thirty years after the album first astonished an unsuspecting public, he evaluates what it did for contemporary music, and an entire generation of young listeners".

We don't believe that there is any new interview or music content included, but will be listening in, just in case!

David Gilmour/Robert Wyatt collaboration

Written by Matt

Saturday, 13 September 2003

According to the latest issue of the UK's "Uncut" magazine, Robert Wyatt's new album, to be reviewed in their next issue, is claimed to feature help from David Gilmour amongst others.

The album is called "Cuckooland" and is being released on Hannibal Records on September 23rd. The album cover is shown to the right; we are getting more details of the album from Hannibal and we will let you know as soon as we have them. Our thanks to Kevan Porter for the head's up on this!

Warren Zevon passes on

Written by Matt
Tuesday, 09 September 2003
Sunday September 7th saw the untimely passing, at age 56, of Warren Zevon. A talented singer/songwriter, he leaves a great legacy in the form of his music. David Gilmour had appeared on his 1989 album Transverse City by adding guitar solos on Run Straight Down.

Live At Pompeii DVD US/Canadian release

Written by Matt
Wednesday, 03 September 2003
We have just heard that the US/Canadian release of "Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii - The Director's Cut" has now been scheduled for October 21st, the day after the UK release of this title...