The UK newspaper the Daily Express reported on July 9th that David Gilmour is "mightily peeved that his 12-year-old son Charlie has become much better than him on the saxophone after they started taking lessons together."

Gilmour sighed: "The problem is, I still can't read music properly. I'm up to a decent level now but Charlie has overtaken me. Young minds are more keen to take these things up, you see." Sounds like Dick Parry isn't yet out of a job performing the solo in Shine On!

The official timings from the hillclimb event, the centrepiece of the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, are now in. The event involves driving from the bottom of the main part of Goodwood estate, past Goodwood House (Lord March's home), and up a steep hill, passing extremely close to things like flint walls - not renowned for being car-bodywork friendly!

Not all cars post official times, just doing demonstration runs, but others compete to be the best of their class.

Saturday had Nick Mason post fourth fastest time in his class, getting up the hill in 80.1 seconds in his Ferrari 512S. Steve O'Rourke, the band's manager, took part in his McLaren BMW F1 GTR "Longtail", and was second in his class, at 60.22 seconds.

Sunday didn't see a time posted by Nick, but Steve was fourth in his class at 61.72 seconds.

Nick Mason made his annual pilgrimage to the Goodwood Festival Of Speed this weekend. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the event is held in the Sussex country estate of Lord March, and attracts cars, drivers and enthusiasts from all over the world for the now legendary three day event. This made nine-out-of-ten for Nick, only having missed the 1994 event being on tour at the time.

This time, Nick brought along his Ferrari 512S from 1970, shown right, the same car that Steve McQueen used in the film Le Mans, and which was burnt out in a fire. Nick restored it and proudly drove it on the track throughout the weekend.

We took the opportunity to find out from Nick what the position is with his long-awaited book charting the history of the band.

The Vancouver Sun, in a story posted this lunchtime (link here), are stating that Roger Waters is touring this summer, in a news story about summer tours and shows. We've contacted Mark Fenwick, Roger's manager to get a definitive statement about this.

Mark has confirmed to us that: "Roger is currently working on Ca Ira which we hope will be finished this year for release in 2004. His new studio album is substantially written but not yet recorded. The timing of any tour is predicated on when the new album is completed and released which may be at the end of next year or 2005."

So there you have it - the current situation as at July 10th. Obviously, if/when these details change, we will pass the information on to you.