Just announced is a fifth and final David Gilmour concert to be held at London's Royal Albert Hall. The show is being held on September 23rd, 2016, and will mean over the course of 2015/16 he will have performed at the prestigious, historic venue eleven times - five times last year, once in April for the Teenage Cancer Trust, and five times in September.

In addition, a very limited number of production seats have been made available for the four other nights at the Royal Albert Hall: September 25th, 28th, 29th and 30th. The official announcement has made it clear that these will be the final shows of the 'Rattle That Lock' tour.

As before, tickets for the Royal Albert Hall shows are strictly limited to 4 tickets per person, and photo ID for the lead ticket buyer will be required. Tickets will be on sale at 10am UK time (BST) Thursday, June 30th, from the Box Office: 0845 401 5045 or +44 20 7589 8212, or RoyalAlbertHall.com. Please note tickets will not be available in person from the Royal Albert Hall box office. Tickets will also be available from Stargreen: 020 7734 8932 (Stargreen.com).

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)'s International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE) compile an annual list of the top ten of the approximately 18,000 new species named during the previous year.

"In the past half-century we have come to recognize that species are going extinct at an alarming rate. It is time that we accelerate species exploration, too. Knowledge of what species exist, where they live, and what they do will help mitigate the biodiversity crisis and archive evidence of the life on our planet that does disappear in the wild," said Dr. Quentin Wheeler, ESF president and founding director of the IISE.

This is not the normal territory of Brain Damage, we know, but one of the top ten this year has come as a pleasant surprise. A damselfly from Gabon, Africa, is one of the year's new discoveries, one of sixty new species of damselfly reported this year. This particular one is very colourful and distinct.

ESF note that: "given that the genus name is Umma, it was quick work to give this lovely and delicate damselfly a name that might be familiar to rock-and-roll fans: the band Pink Floyd named its 1969 double album Ummagumma (which has yet another meaning as a British slang term for sex)."

See the whole of the ESF Top Ten through this link. Our thanks in particular to Patrizio and to Thomas Golser for the information...

Now available to order, in readiness for its publication on July 15th, is the Official 2017 Pink Floyd Calendar. A perennial Floyd fan favourite - particularly as a gift at Christmas time - is this annual official wall calendar. An item which has been produced for many years now, the standardised format is roughly the same size as a vinyl album - roughly 12" (or 30cm) square, with the calendar opening up to have a double page spread per month.

The calendar this year looks to celebrate the band's back catalogue over the course of the year, although additional images other than the cover (a StormStudios design) are not yet available. The cover image is a crop of the now familiar "Back Catalogue" design which was a typically Stormy play on words! The calendar each year is often squirrelled away as a collectable for the years to come, and earlier examples are now quite sought after.

If you want to place your order now, you can do so through these direct links: Amazon UK, Amazon.com, Amazon Canada, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, Amazon Spain and Amazon Italy.

[STORY UPDATED] Television broadcast details are now through for David Gilmour's concert in Plac Wolności (Freedom Square), in Wroclaw, Poland. The concert takes place next Saturday, June 25th, and is the first show of the remaining part of David's 2015-16 Rattle That Lock tour.

The special one-off event, located on Freedom Square in front of the National Forum of Music, and including a large orchestra, will be filmed by Aubrey 'Po' Powell and broadcast live on Polish TV. This forms part of the city's celebrations as European Capital of Culture 2016.

Those in Poland (who are not attending the sold-out show, that is) should tune in to channel TVP2, who are scheduled to broadcast the concert between 9:45pm - 11pm local time. Unless there is a truncated show planned for this venue, one presumes they are only showing the second half of the concert? Following on, at 11pm is a half-hour interview with David, but no details are provided of when the interview was undertaken.

Those in Poland, and elsewhere, may be able to watch the broadcast online via a stream. The channel's website is at tvp2.tvp.pl. Our thanks to Cam for letting us know about the channel details.

UPDATE: Our thanks to Zulia Malyshenko for the information that the second part of the concert will be broadcast from 11:10pm until 0:50am on Polish television channel TVP Rozryvka. More information at Teleman.pl.