Just published on YouTube is a new interview with David Gilmour, conducted by Rick Beato during the Madison Square Garden concerts in New York City. The nearly hour-long chat with David finds him in expansive mood, explaining how the new album, Luck and Strange, came together and he also talks about the recent concerts.

Nick Mason and his wife Annette are supporting the UK's National Youth Theatre in their current Greatest Gift Auction, which runs until 10pm (UK time) on November 26th, 2024.

The auction is offering incredible experiences and prizes to provide bursaries & life-changing creative opportunities for young people across the UK. The National Youth Theatre is a pioneering youth arts charity engaging thousands of young people aged 11- 30 around the UK every year in their creative and personal development. Your support will help ensure that young people from all backgrounds have access to the transformative power of the arts.

Nick and Annette have contributed two lots to the auction:

• Signed Pink Floyd vinyl collection - a set of ten Pink Floyd remaster and reissue albums (all on heavyweight vinyl) as follows: More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, The Dark Side Of The Moon (UV edition), Animals (2018 edition), The Wall, The Division Bell, and The Endless River.
• Signed Pink Floyd drum heads and drum sticks - A framed and signed pair of limited edition, hand finished screen-printed Remo drum heads ‘Star Head’ (from an edition of just 10) paired with limited edition signed Promark drumsticks. These drum head prints are direct copies of these famous painted drumheads used during Pink Floyd’s tours in the early 1970s. Printing was supervised by the late artist Kate Hepburn and Matthew Rich of Jealous Print Studio, London.

Visit nyt.org.uk/auction to see details of all the lots, and place your bids!

With David Gilmour concluding his 2024 Luck and Strange concert dates with a string of incredible shows at New York City's Madison Square Garden, in the heart of Manhattan (tonight seeing the final show), he took time out this week during a gap between shows to appear on US TV's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

For those who missed the late evening (in New York, anyway) broadcast of the show, they've put the two segments - interview, and performance with his backing singers Louise Marshall, the Webb Sisters, and Romany Gilmour, alongside Fallon's house band - online, which we share here:

Happy Halloween to you all! Regulars to Brain Damage over the years will know that our friend Joe Ringus is a hugely talented pumpkin artist, and each year has crafted a Pink Floyd themed pumpkin for Halloween (which is celebrated by many, principally this evening, but in a number of places it covers a number of days).

Those regulars will no doubt be as keen as we have been to see if Joe would be continuing the tradition this year, and if so, what design would be picked. The great news is that Joe has been hard at work yet again, and has done another lovely job! We're delighted to share his incredible carving with you.

Thanks Joe - we think you've done another superb job! It's a great tradition and we know many of our visitors love to see them.

If there are any other pumpkin artists out there who have created Floyd designs, we'd love to see them.