Just published is the latest issue (number 27 - cover date April 2016) of the Pink Floyd fanzine "Heyou" run by our friends over at the Italian website of the same name.
The 52-page dual language magazine (in Italian and English), which is published every six months or so, catches up with things in the Floyd world this year. With so much happening what with Roger's various activities, and David's new album and tour, there has been plenty for the authors at Heyou to include.
Heyou kicks off with a look at the wonderful Taken By Storm documentary by Roddy Bogawa, which will hopefully encourage readers to check out this fascinating look at the late, and very much missed, Storm Thorgerson, his colleagues over the years, and their incredible work.
Elsewhere in the magazine, there's a reprint of a recent interview with David about Rattle That Lock, as well as a reprint of an interview with Roger from Noisy. Alongside this is a review of the Wall film that was fairly recently released.
With the recent release of his excellent new book, The Complete Pink Floyd, there's a short interview with Brain Damage founder Glenn Povey about the creation of the new book, and how it compares to the previous editions (released some time ago now).
There's an extensive review by Bjorn Riis of one of David's Royal Albert Hall concerts last year. As Bjorn is a guitarist, there's a strong focus on David's guitar work in the concert, and the equipment used for each song.
As with most issues of Heyou, there's a chronological look at things that have happened in the last few months in the news pages, ranging from various magazines published with Floyd content, to things like the 1965 - Their First Recordings. Last issue's news pages were very brief, and it looks like they've caught up with things they missed last time, as well as more recent happenings.
More details of the Heyou fanzine can be found at www.heyou.it/fsubscrbd.html, where you can get individual copies, and subscription enquiries (four issues costing 30 euros within Europe, and 40 euros outside Europe) should go to
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In October last year, the world premiere of Ron Geesin - An Improvised Life took place. This is a new, one hour documentary that explores the life of this remarkable, yet largely unsung, artist through a mixture of live performance, interviews, film extracts and archive material. The film includes never before seen footage of Ron Geesin and David Gilmour at the 2008 Atom Heart Mother concert at London's Cadogan Hall, which featured blistering guitar and pedal steel work from David.
The film has interviews with David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Robert Wyatt and Bridget St John amongst many others.
The good news for those who missed out on that screening, is that another is lined up for next month. The film will be shown at FILMIC in Bristol on Sunday May 8th at 2pm. Tickets for the event are now on sale via Watershed.co.uk.
Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with Ron Geesin himself. An event not to be missed!
More information on the documentary can be found at GeesinImprovLife.com; the film's official Facebook page can be found at Facebook.com/GeesinDoc. Finally, here's the trailer for An Improvised Life...
David Gilmour has just added a pair of shows - the first ever seated concerts - at the historic Circo Massimo (Circus Maximus) in Rome, Italy. The shows are part of the Postepay Rock in Roma festival. The concerts will take place on July 2nd and 3rd.
Tickets for Circus Maximus will be priced from €60 (subject to booking fees) and will go on sale on Thursday 7 April from www.davidgilmour.com at 10:00hrs CET. Please note tickets will be limited to 4 per person.
The Circus Maximus in Rome was built in the sixth century BC and was used as a race track for horse racing. Today it is a large public park, also used for concerts.
Two new interviews have appeared today, tying in with David Gilmour's current Rattle That Lock tour of North America. The first, in the Toronto Sun, looking at life, lost contemporaries, and his musical future.
"It's very, very sad. But that's the business we're in — life", Gilmour commented on the loss of musicians such as Lemmy, Glenn Frey and David Bowie. "I feel very relieved to have got to 70. I'm now fully, extremely old. I'm trying to get used to the idea. It's just advancing decrepitude, all that stuff. You know, you can pretend to yourself in your 60s that you're kind of late middle-age but when you get to 70 there's no pretence. You're a very old person and that's just the end of the matter. It's slightly different, mentally".
On Bowie, he said he wasn't close to him. "I didn't know him that well but, like in all sorts of lines of work, you bump into people and get on well with them and you chat with them. He came, flew over and sang a couple of songs with me at one of my shows. I was very, very grateful. A lovely, lovely chap. It's a great memory".
Once the tour wraps in September, he won't be resting on his laurels: "I have some music that is half prepared, but I promise I will get down to it quite soon". They note that he's also working on a track with David Crosby. "I think there's going to be an album of maybe Crosby cover songs that I'm going to do one of — that's a bit of fun."
In the other interview, which is on video and lasts over half an hour, David discusses his musical career from Jokers Wild to Pink Floyd. Gilmour also recalls Syd Barrett’s tragic battle with mental illness and LSD that consumed and impacted his art. Gilmour shares memories from touring the US, the impact of the British psychedelic rock scene and creating the interconnected songs that made up some of Pink Floyd's most iconic albums in this episode of Talk Show hosted by Harper Simon, Paul Simon's son.
Just a head's up for our readers in the US - MTV Live are showing a couple of unmissable David Gilmour programmes on Saturday night (April 2nd) into Sunday morning.
At 9pm, they are screening David Gilmour: Wider Horizons, the excellent BBC documentary about David and his life. Then, at 10:30pm, Remember That Night - Live at the Royal Albert Hall is aired, bringing the 2006 concert recording to television. This is followed by another chance to see the Wider Horizons documentary. Please check local listings for channels and exact timing, depending on whereabouts you are in the country.
If you miss either broadcast this coming weekend, next weekend VH1 Classic are showing these programmes, giving another opportunity to see them. Our thanks to Robert Schlosser for the info...
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