Animals Reimagined – A Tribute To Pink Floyd out next month

Beneath the Surface: Will Wallace.

Hello hello, welcome one and all to another Beneath The Surface session. It’s cold and a little bit dreary, but Christmas is on the horizon and I’ve got something here to get your engines going. I am delighted to have the producer, DJ and all round epic music maker Will Wallace join us today. He …

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Roger Waters talks about new re-recording of The Dark Side Of The Moon

On the same day that saw Roger Waters speaking to the United Nations on the invitation of Russia, Waters has also revealed details of a full re-recording he has done of The Dark Side Of The Moon, seemingly without the knowledge of Pink Floyd. The re-recording, which he hopes will now be released in May (delayed from March), potentially due to be launched with a special concert, is revealed in a lengthy piece in the UK’s Daily Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/roger-waters-pink-floyd-dark-side-moon-gilmour-putin-ukraine/) (please note: full article potentially behind a paywall). In the interview, Waters talks about subjects such as Russia, and Ukraine, and his ex-band, before allowing the reporter to listen to his re-recording in its entirety. Waters notes that he has re-recorded the album as “not enough people recognised what it’s about, what it was I was saying then.” The interviewer notes that – to their ears – some of the new album is very good, with Breathe given a ‘slow, acoustic groove’ and Money being ‘country-tinged [and] could be a late Johnny Cash cut’. He does note that: ‘But, surprisingly, Waters seems to have decided that what was wrong with the original album’s beautiful instrumental tracks was that they didn’t have Waters talking all over them. Now they do.’ Once more confirmed details emerge of this recording, we will let you know. The full Daily Telegraph article can be found here (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/roger-waters-pink-floyd-dark-side-moon-gilmour-putin-ukraine/).

Two-part Mojo Magazine Pink Floyd special – part one selling fast!

MOJO magazine’s two-part Pink Floyd special collectors’ edition (https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-specials/emojespc/collectors-series-pink-floyd-bundle) is on sale now in UK stores. Housed in a gatefold card sleeve, with a mirrored prism on the front, and Atom Heart Mother’s Lulubelle III pictured on the inside when opened up, the magazine covers the early period in the band’s history: 1965-1973. The editor, Mark Blake (he of the excellent Pigs Might Fly biography of the band) has put together the pair of 132 page magazines in part to tie in with the upcoming tour of Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets that begins on March 12th in Vancouver. The publications pull together interviews and articles printed over the many years of MOJO magazine, and accompany them with many rare and previously unseen images of the band, to help trace the journey from the band’s first steps, through to The Dark Side Of The Moon. There were certainly a healthy number of pictures which I’d not seen before, and refreshingly for a special publication such as this, there is no advertising within its pages to artificially inflate the page count. Both parts should be worthwhile purchases for Floyd fans, providing plenty to read, and lots of visual entertainment too. The second part, also known as Edition 2, will be available in UK stores from April 4th, and covers the period of 1974 to the present day. As you’ll see from the image here, the cover of the second part has the band lurking behind a hole in the Wall… PLEASE NOTE that Edition 1 (part one) is selling incredibly well, and copies are becoming very hard to find. Secure your copy now by purchasing online (it’s available worldwide) through these links at the publishers: Specially priced bundle to buy Edition 1 (1965-73), and pre-order Edition 2 (1974-2019) (https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-specials/emojespc/collectors-series-pink-floyd-bundle) or The link to buy Edition 1 (1965-73) only (https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-specials/emojespc/collectors-series-pink-floyd-edition-1)