The following story has appeared on The Indian Express site:

Pink Floyd brings Echoes to Kolar’s arid fields
The group will donate proceeds from sales of 3 million CDs of their recent album to fight global warming - by Santosh Vijaykumar

Mumbai, April 11: A day before maverick rock musician Roger Waters orchestrates Bangalore’s tryst with the moody, mystical and magical, nearly 150 farmers and 38 acres of land in the Kolar district in Karnataka will feel the lasting reverberations of psychedelic rock music.

Kolar is one of the only four places in the world (the other three being in Scotland, Mexico and Louisiana) where Pink Floyd’s ambitions are going green. And ambition here means sponsoring the plantation of 7,600 trees including tamarind, mango and others.

Following the advance warning earlier, it turned out that "the legendary David Gilmour" (as introduced by the eponymous host) appeared on Saturday night's Michael Parkinson show, along with Jools Holland, his band, and Mica Paris, performing "I Put A Spell On You". This was no surprise as every time they appear together, this is the song that is performed. Mr Gilmour looked a little shy of attention, trying to keep out of the limelight, especially when the song had finished.

It has been confirmed as part of Roger's Bangalore show press release, that "...a television documentary of the India show will be a first of its kind to be aired post the concert for the FLOYD fans". Obviously we'll bring you full details of what this documentary contains, once it has aired and we know for ourselves.

If you can pick up the UK's BBC One (and a lot of Western Europe can), tune in at 22:20hrs on Saturday April 13th, as one of Michael Parkinson's chat show guests is Jools Holland and his band. Of particular interest to us is that David will be appearing on guitar as part of the performance.