STORY UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL SHOW: Hot on the heels of the now three shows performing Meddle in full at the Half Moon in Putney, London (an additional night is now on sale), Lee Harris's new group A Surrogate Band - which includes Dom Beken, fellow bandmate from Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets - have announced another three of shows at the legendary venue. Over to Lee to explain what's been added to the horizon!

"A huge thank you to everyone who bought tickets for the Meddle shows - both nights sold out in a matter of hours! So, what’s next?

"Before there was Dark Side of the Moon, there was… Eclipse – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics. Eclipse was the early live incarnation of what would become Pink Floyd's seminal 1973 album, performed throughout 1972 while the piece was still evolving - making it uniquely suited to interpretation by a four-piece band.

"We'll also be exploring more from the Pink Floyd songbook. These will be A Surrogate Band's final Album Sessions shows of 2027."

Those of you who have heard Pink Floyd's early performances of what became The Dark Side Of The Moon, from January 20th 1972 at the Brighton Dome onwards, will know that these should be VERY interesting shows, and we recommend securing your tickets as soon as you can.

The shows will take place at 8pm on Wednesday, May 12th, Thursday, May 13th and Friday, May 14th 2027, and tickets on sale this Friday (September 18th) at 10am. Click here to purchase yours once they go on sale.

As you might recall, Lee Harris, best known for his work with Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, is launching a new live series celebrating classic albums performed in their entirety in the intimate surroundings of The Half Moon, Putney, in London. Each event will bring together a specially selected group of musicians to perform an iconic album in full alongside music by the same artist.

The first edition will see Harris, Dom Beken, Yaron Stavi & Ged Lynch unite under the title of A Surrogate Band to perform Pink Floyd's Meddle in full, alongside rarely performed music from the same era of the Floyd catalogue. Tickets are NOW on sale for the two nights - March 11th and March 12th, 2027 - and are sure to sell quickly!

UPDATE: An extra night has been added - it is now March 10th, March 11th and March 12th, 2027, that will see Meddle (and some other Floyd songs) performed in full at the historic Half Moon.

These shows mark the live debut of this new four-piece line-up, bringing together musicians with direct connections to the world of Pink Floyd. Harris and Beken are members of Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, which was conceived by Harris to revisit and perform Pink Floyd's early music. The band has played more than 200 shows worldwide, bringing this rarely performed era of the Pink Floyd catalogue to audiences across the globe. The Half Moon has a special connection to Harris and Beken, who performed there during the band's launch, making these shows a rare opportunity to experience this music up close in the venue where it began. Last night, Harris performed there (with a couple of Saucers - Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt - amongst those in the audience) for a non-Floyd related show, and it reminded me of just how good the sound is in there; it's a nice small room (around 250 capacity), so pretty intimate.

Yaron Stavi has performed and recorded with David Gilmour, including on Rattle That Lock. He has also worked extensively with Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, Robert Wyatt and Nigel Kennedy. Ged Lynch's credits include Peter Gabriel, Goldfrapp and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, among many others. He contributed drums to David Gilmour's On an Island.

Harris: "Nick wisely said that what we do in the Saucers is not recreating but reinterpreting. That's exactly the ethos we'll bring to these shows. We'll honour the iconic moments that all of us love whilst allowing the music to evolve live, just as Pink Floyd did on stage."

Tickets cost £25 plus a booking fee, and can be purchased right now via leejharris.com.

The combined wishes of all of us on the Brain Damage team, along no doubt with many of you reading this, go to Roger Waters, who celebrates the very special occasion of his 83rd birthday today!

Roger was born in Great Bookham, Surrey, in 1943, moving to Cambridge when he was two years old. It was there that he met, and became childhood friends with, a number of key people in the story of Pink Floyd.

Of course, Roger has been extremely busy over recent years, having successfully taken Dark Side Of The Moon on tour in 2006, through to 2008. On completing that, he immediately started work on a new version of The Wall - which finally opened in September 2010. That tour was spectacularly successful, wrapping up in Paris for show number 217 in September 2013. Recordings of that tour turned into the film, shown in cinemas and released on DVD/Blu-ray and as part of a mammoth Super Deluxe Edition.

More recently, he performed his highly acclaimed Us + Them world tour, which was filmed and was shown in cinemas worldwide, with the home release of it on Blu-ray, 2CD, 3LP vinyl and DVD that followed. He also released his latest full solo album, Is This The Life We Really Want? as well as overseeing the release of the late Nick Sedgwick's book about the band, and in particular, the 1974 tour of The Dark Side of the Moon.

2022 saw him back on tour for This Is Not A Drill, originally due to start in 2020 but delayed due to Covid-19, with the stage presentation being "in the round". The powerful presentations, with the unique staging which sees Roger wandering around, addressing attendees on all sides of the arenas, thrilled audiences in many countries with more shows in 2023. His appearance in Prague was broadcast live in cinemas, and subsequently returned to cinemas in July in a brand new edit which is pretty spectacular. It has also, a year ago, received a home release, and is available as a 4LP, 2CD, Blu-ray and DVD.

There's also been the release of the six-song album, The Lockdown Sessions, which gathered together new versions of Mother, Two Suns In The Sunset, Vera, The Gunner's Dream, The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range, and Comfortably Numb 2022. This was followed with Roger's Redux version of The Dark Side Of The Moon, and he presented that in a pair of shows at the legendary London Palladium. At those shows, he narrated extracts from his memoir, which should be published at some point hopefully soon, and also performed a longer version of The Bar which we hear is the subject of his next album.

We hope you have a great day, Roger. Many happy returns!

To help mark the 20th anniversary of the release of On An Island, the third solo album from David Gilmour, a special limited vinyl edition has just been announced and orders are being taken.

Released on what was David's 60th birthday, the album entered the UK charts at number one - his first chart-topping solo album. Included in the long list of guest musicians on the album were Robert Wyatt, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Bob Klose (a member of the pre-Floyd band), Phil Manzanera, Georgie Fame and Jools Holland.

This new celebratory edition from Blood Records is limited to just 3000 copies, and comes in a yellow, blue, white and black splatter. Splatter vinyl releases are created by having the soft lump of vinyl to be used for the LP pushed into coloured vinyl pellets, before the resulting mix is married up with labels, and then flattened into the recognisable and playable record, with the excess trimmed off. Thus, every copy created by this process is unique. If you order this edition of On An Island, it will therefore be a little different to the example shown in the picture to the left.

Orders are now being taken at Blood-Records.co.uk. We expect them to sell quickly so if you are interested, don't delay placing your order.