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Limited Super Deluxe Boxset – Roger Waters: The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux

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Just announced and available to pre-order is a limited edition (just 3000 are being made) Super Deluxe Boxset of The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux, which was released in October 2023 in a variety of vinyl editions, along with a CD version. This new edition, which comes with some interesting additions to the original album, is released on March 14th, 2025. Many of you will recall that Roger performed a couple of nights at London’s legendary Palladium, and the live rendition of the Redux Dark Side is included in the box set. Here’s what is inside: The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux on Gold Vinyl (2LP), CD, Blu-ray: Dolby ATMOS Mix, 96/24 Audio
The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux Live on Gold Vinyl and CD, Blu-ray: 96/24 Audio
Roger Waters Track by Track video interview
4 x 10-inch Vinyl from the original Redux album cut at 45 RPM for: Money, Time, Speak To Me / Breathe and Us & Them, each with an artwork etched B-side
A 40-page Commemorative Book of Photographs from The Making of the Album, Rehearsals, and Roger Waters Live at The London Palladium
Hand numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Limited Edition of 3000 copies
Initial orders – first 700 – come with a signed print by Roger Waters. This is exclusive to the Official Store The boxset will be available to order from various retailers and we will add links here. For the official store, visit rwaters.lnk.to/DSOTMredux (https://rwaters.lnk.to/DSOTMredux). You can also order it from HMV.com (https://hmv.com/Store/Music/CD/The-Dark-Side-of-the-Moon-Redux-Limited-Super-Dlx) which is cheaper than the official store, and has free delivery (to the UK), but doesn’t have the signed print.

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Meet Your New Go-To Duo: The Blow In’s Drop EP ‘Meant To Be’

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Supercharged by Cian O’Leary’s vocals and rhythm guitar prowess, as well as Oisin O’Regan’s talents as a lead guitarist, ‘Meant To Be’ is more than a gorgeous patchwork of soul-stirring beats. It’s a spotlight, unveiling The Blow In’s refreshing ability to blend traditional Irish folk with modern genre-defying instrumentation. So, with that said, let’s take a deep dive into ‘Meant To Be’ and start brightening up the last few days of January! 

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New Rock Promotion book explores work for Pink Floyd et al

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To be published on April 1st, 2025, is a new book from Jawbone – Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships, Airplay and the art of Rock Promotion, from Paul Rappaport. ‘Rap’, as he is often referred to, is a legend of music promotion. He spent thirty-three years at Columbia Records, where he became their senior vice-president of rock promotion, and was instrumental in so many careers. It promises an insider’s account of the golden age of rock, sharing never-before-told tales of his adventures with some of music’s most colourful characters, including The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, and many more. “I wrote this book to capture the magical times,” explained Rappaport, “so that people wouldn’t forget but also to show the many behind-the-scenes folks whose lives were so colourful they brought a warmth and
laughter to the world. If you want to know what it felt like to be there, to experience the whole scene first hand, to get the inside track on how it really all went down, these stories are for you. I welcome you to follow me down the rabbit hole to a magical place that will bring you laughter and reveal the inner workings of the music biz that you may have often wondered about.” Of the book, and Rappaport, Nick Mason said: “So, you want to work in the music business? How much do you know about it? The answer is clearly not enough — no one in their right mind could countenance such a career! But if you must, then you need this book. Rapper was there. Not only that, but he remembers most of the detail, which is more than can be said for his subjects, who have a tendency to rewrite history as they would have liked it or justify actions that should have put them in jail. It’s about as close as you can get to the action without having that gold Access All Areas pass.” Praise indeed! Preorders can now be made for the book; ordering any item after entering Amazon through our links helps with BD’s ongoing running costs as we participate in their affiliate scheme, at no extra cost to yourselves, and we really appreciate it: Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/191682918X/braindamage-21), Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/191682918X/braindamage-20), Amazon Canada (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/191682918X/braindamageon-20), Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/191682918X/braindamageon-21), Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/191682918X/braindamage0f-21), Amazon Spain (https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/191682918X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 tag=braidama01-21 linkCode=as2 camp=3626 creative=24822 creativeASIN=191682918X) and Amazon Italy (https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/191682918X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3370 creative=24114 creativeASIN=191682918X 1 linkCode=as2 tag=bradamonl-21).

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McKenna Michels Shines On New Single ‘I Don’t Know’, Announces EU & UK Tour

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Austin-born singer-songwriter McKenna Michels releases the new single, ‘I Don’t Know’. The track has already struck a powerful chord with listeners, climbing to #14 on the Mediabase Adult Contemporary Charts and holding a Top 30 position for six weeks. It’s the first single from Michels’ highly anticipated upcoming EP, Revolution, a project poised to showcase […]

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David Gilmour – Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA, USA – June 24th 1984

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Our thanks to Theatrice Westbrook for very kindly sharing recollections of an evening in Irvine, California, in June 1984, when David Gilmour played at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre as part of his About Face tour that year: Chef André Wiederkehr, a friend of my co-worker and friend Karen, got tickets and they had a couple extra. They invited me and other coworker/friend Brian and gave us a ride. Pink Floyd wasn’t really Brian’s cup of tea. He was more New Wave, outrageous… he turned me on to John Waters and “Pink Flamingos”! But ironically after a group of us saw Berlin in concert in Hollywood earlier, he told me LA was too much, he couldn’t wait to get back behind that Orange Curtain (the more conservative Orange County, California)! Go figure. Brian had his leg in a cast, but refused a wheelchair and walked from the parking lot to our seat on crutches. (He took up the wheelchair offer after the concert.) We had great seats in the lower section, closest to the stage. David Gilmour’s first solo tour. Roger Waters had also begun his first solo tour during the middle of this tour (and more Floyd acrimony would lay ahead). Before the show, André and I went to the restroom; I came out first. Through the fence I saw a guy in jeans and a red Pendleton talking with crew or someone. He looked like a trucker. I looked at his face from profile, it was David Gilmour, 20-25 feet away, with very short hair. I about shit myself. André came out of the bathroom, talking. André was a super hardcore European Floyd fan from Austria. (Translation: Hardcore fan.) When I pointed out David Gilmour, he stopped in his tracks, staring, speechless. We both stared for a couple minutes before returning to our seats. No opening act. A beautiful Summer eve, a little warm. I had both solo albums and hoped he would play my favourite track “There’s No Way Out of Here” (he didn’t). But I was not disappointed. The new album, “About Face”, was more “radio friendly”, with more guest players (Jeff Porcaro was the drummer). The stage was much more scaled down than on Floyd tours. (Part of the show is visible in the US-only 1984 home video release “David Gilmour Live.”) The band played cuts from Gilmour’s two solo albums along with a couple of Floyd tracks. The stage darkened and a deep synth pulsated in syncopation with lighting on the lip of the stage and around the edge of the stage risers. This signalled the opening song “Until We Sleep”, the first of 5 new album cuts. The band was on it. Loud and clear. I thought I recognized the second guitarist who looked like Mick Ralphs, noted this imposing bald drummer, and a lady on percussion who looked like she was pregnant. The next song was the Pete Townshend/David Gilmour song “All Lovers Are Deranged”, which slammed in the same fashion as the first, and with an ending that presaged the intro/outro of Pink Floyd song “Sorrow” (from the 1987 album “A Momentary Lapse of Reason”), as it shook the whole amphitheater.

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Pink Floyd One Slip project artwork surfaces

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Back in 2015, Tim Davies wrote an exclusive piece for our website about his work for Pink Floyd (https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/miscellaneous-articles/adventures-in-pink-floyd-land-cover-image-artist-tim-d.html). The article, which revealed some of the initial ideas under consideration for use on the cover of the Floyd’s 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, also talks about how his adaptation of a photo of a girl sitting on the side of a bath ended up on the One Slip cover. “I took some oil crayons and paint and scribbled over the figure, almost totally covering the figure, but leaving enough to show a rather impressionistic figure which would be perfect for [Blue Matisse, a French pop-group!! “Feeling pleased with my work I returned to the studio in Goodge Street, London. I spread the images out and Colin seemed very pleased with the results. We planned to show them to the group and their management in the next few days. The next day when I arrived at the studio all the images were gone. Colin told me that Storm [Thorgerson] had come to the studio with one of the musicians from Pink Floyd, possibly David Gilmour who was around a lot then. They saw the sketches and grabbed them for the singles cover image. Colin had told Storm they were for “Blue Matisse”, and Storm had replied “Not any more!” I am really proud to this day that a little piece of my art has made it onto a Pink Floyd record cover.” Fast forward to the end of last year, and one of Tim’s original artworks for this project (all created in the same sort of way) was discovered in a charity shop in the UK by Leigh Dorling. He contacted Tim, who replied back and kindly authenticated the piece of art. Leigh reached out to us as he felt we’d be interested in this follow-up to the story from 10 years ago. Thanks Leigh, and a very nice find! Thanks for letting us know, Leigh, and thanks for the pictures of the artwork and the authentication!

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See Emily Play included in A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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We were recently made aware of an ambitious website, 500songs.com (https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-157-see-emily-play-by-the-pink-floyd/) – A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs. This podcast series, available either via the website itself, or via Spotify (https://www.spotify.com), Apple Music (https://music.apple.com), etc., looks to take a deep dive into key pieces of music. This brings us to episode 157, which takes a good look at See Emily Play. It gives a 74 minute analysis of the song, and the development of Pink Floyd in those early days. Our thanks to Martin Lawson for letting us know about this interesting episode, which you can hear in full here: Episode 157: “See Emily Play” by The Pink Floyd (https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-157-see-emily-play-by-the-pink-floyd/)