For those of you in or near to the beautiful Cambridgeshire city of Ely, there's an exhibition on at the moment which sounds well worth checking out - so, our thanks to Gary Summers for letting us know! 'Storm Warning' is a fascinating exhibition of around 50 pieces of Storm Thorgerson and his studio's album work; these are more recent, 90’s onwards designs, but include plenty of Floyd. All are for sale and are original limited edition prints, some signed by Storm, with StormStudio's team signing others.

The exhibition is being held in the Haddenham Arts Centre, a small village 5 miles outside Ely, until the end of October. UPDATE: this has now been extended into December, giving people more opportunity to visit! As the centre is manned purely by volunteers, and in these days where the arts are struggling hugely, it's good to give encouragement and patronage where possible (they have a cafe on site too!).

The exhibition is open each Tuesday to Saturday, between 10am and 4pm, with private appointments possible outside of these times (which might be handy for those who would want to maximise social distancing). There's free parking onsite too. The Haddenham Arts Centre website has further details of the exhibition, opening times, directions, etc., to make your visit as easy as possible.

Just announced - Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder will be shown in cinemas for the first time on October 15th. You can experience the restored, remixed and re-edited film of the 1988 New York performance in your nearest participating cinema.

Those of you who have seen the new version via the Later Years box set will know what an incredible job has been done with this, so a great opportunity to see it on a large screen, with a great sound system (including Dolby Atmos at participating cinemas). It's got to be an unmissable event if you have a participating cinema near you (and we are aware that some locations don't yet have cinemas open for any screenings, either due to current Covid restrictions, or whilst they work out how to re-open in a Covid-safe way to the public).

Tickets for this go on sale in one week's time: August 27th. Visit delicatesoundofthunder.com for further information.

UPDATE: the screenings have been delayed, with an update on them to follow in due course. We'll keep you posted!

Jon Carin, the Grammy Award winning musician, singer, songwriter and producer who has been a longtime collaborator with Pink Floyd and the solo careers of David Gilmour and Roger Waters, amongst many other top musicians, hasn't been taking it easy during lockdown. Roger's This Is Not A Drill tour was due to start on July 8th this year, and so Jon would have been in the thick of rehearsals for the concerts when lockdown struck. As you know, that tour has been postponed until next year, and we are awaiting the revised dates once they have been confirmed.

It now seems like he's been working hard on new material of his own, and two new songs have just been released onto Spotify, which are well worth checking out.

The first of these is Like a Drug, an acoustic guitar driven song that is a nice, chilled listen - find it at spoti.fi/3hZ6GeK. Here's a preview of it:

The other is called Fear Of Everything, found at spoti.fi/3buUVtV, a punchier song which gives more prominence to drums and keyboards, and we hope that these two songs are a taste of more to come from Jon. Here's a taster of this second new song from Jon:

Make sure you 'Follow' the Jon Carin artist page at Spotify to access these two songs, and over time, hopefully more.

A date for the diaries of the enthusiasts of Gerald Scarfe's incredible work for Pink Floyd on The Wall. In an upcoming auction at Sotheby's, no less than eight original Scarfe drawings are included in the sale, with six of the eight being Wall related.

Sotheby's "Summer Miscellany" auction runs from July 28th - August 4th, and full sale details, with each drawing viewable in good detail, can be found at the website of Sothebys.com with the auction house recommending the use of Google Chrome for viewing their sales (although we found that other browsers seemed to work fine, but if you are intending to bid, it might be worth using Chrome to be on the safe side).

The individual Scarfe lots are as follows:

• Lot 148. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - Teacher and Pink ("Wrong do it again!"), original drawing
• Lot 149. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - Teacher, Wife, Mother and Pink, original drawing
• Lot 150. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - Teacher, Wife and Pink ("Another brick in the wall"), original drawing
• Lot 151. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - Teacher and Pink ("Another brick in the wall"), original drawing
• Lot 152 SCARFE | Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - Teacher ("If you don't eat yer meat..."), original drawing
• Lot 153. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - Teacher ("We don't need no education"), original drawing
• Lot 154 SCARFE | Donald Trump ("Swearing in!"), original drawing
• Lot 155 SCARFE | Boris Johnson ("Fit as a butcher's dog"), original drawing

Click on the above links to see the individual items and for more details. Estimates start from £2000 and bidding opens this coming Tuesday (July 28th).

UPDATE: Gerald has released four more original Floyd pieces for the Sotheby's Made in Britain auction, which is now live online. Gerald's four pieces are lots 204-207, and these can be viewed online now. The sale exhibition will be Saturday 12th - Tuesday 15th September, open to the public 10am to 5pm every day, for those who want to see them in the flesh (so to speak).