Charmaine is back with the highly anticipated DELUXE version of her incredible debut EP, Hood Avante-Garde.

NEW MUSIC: Alex Lleo – Starve

Coming straight from the core of Brooklyn’s music scene, singer-songwriter Alex Lleo is a breath of fresh air in the contemporary rock scene. After focusing on performing in 2019 with an extensive UK tour culminating in a headline show at London’s St. Pancras Old Church, Alex returns to songwriting side of things releasing three singles …

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Saucerful Of Secrets guitarist Lee Harris demos Scarlet Tunic pedal

Lee Harris, guitarist and originator of the idea of Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets, recently did a guest appearance at a guitar show, to explain how he has worked on his guitar sound for the project. In particular, how he has tried to get close to Syd Barrett’s guitar sound. Our friend and contributor Kevan Porter was there to shoot the videos of Lee in action, and explain about the event, and Lee’s appearance there… The ‘Guitar Show 2023’ was held in Birmingham at The Cranmore Conference Centre over the weekend of 25th and 26th February. This annual event hosted 133 companies exhibiting everything from electric and acoustic guitars to amps, effects and accessories. Amongst those was Thorpy FX, a British effects pedal company who build professional effects pedals, including the ‘Scarlet Tunic Analogue Amp Emulator’ as used by none other than Lee Harris of Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets. Lee visited the Thorpy FX booth on Sunday to give a brief explanation and demonstration of the Scarlet Tunic pedal. Playing a lot of Syd Barrett’s tunes with The Saucers, including Interstellar Overdrive, Lee said he’d previously been unhappy with the “stock 60s sound” pedals around at the time and contacted Adrian at Thorpy FX to see if he could come up with a pedal that replicated the sound of a Selmer Treble and Bass amp as originally used by Syd. Fortunately, Adrian and his business partner, Dan, have been very successful and Lee now has a pedal that really adds authenticity to the sound of such Floyd tracks as Interstellar Overdrive as can be heard in the video below. You can also hear Lee’s explanation in the second video. Our thanks to Kevan for the above – much appreciated!

Pink Floyd Captured Through Time paperback edition coming

Published as a hardback edition in May 2019 (https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/archive/win-one-of-two-copies-of-new-book-pink-floyd-captured-through.html), Pink Floyd – Captured Through Time is being published as a paperback on September 24th, 2021. Captured Through Time is a photographic celebration of the band that takes you on a journey from the psychedelic, avant-garde sixties to recent days including off stage shots of all the band members. The publishers note that before this book, many of the photos had never been published in print before, including a sequence of shots from the Animals tour in 1977 that had only just been developed from the original negatives and digitally restored for this publication. In total, the book has over 100 images of Pink Floyd both on and off stage through the decades included in this paperback book. If you wish to order this book, you can do so through the following links; ordering (anything) through our links also helps with BD’s ongoing running costs, and we really appreciate it: Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1912782758/braindamage-21), Amazon France (https://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/1912782758/braindamageon-21), Amazon Germany (https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1912782758/braindamage0f-21), Amazon Spain (https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/1912782758/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 tag=braidama01-21 linkCode=as2 camp=3626 creative=24822 creativeASIN=1912782758) and Amazon Italy (https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/1912782758/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8 camp=3370 creative=24114 creativeASIN=1912782758 linkCode=as2 tag=bradamonl-21).