official David Gilmour Italian Album Store (https://DavidGilmour.lnk.to/storeIT) (including those who have already done so), with the general sale of tickets beginning on Friday, May 17th via this link at Ticketone.it (https://www.ticketone.it/en/artist/david-gilmour/) Other than the store presale, there is a Virgin Radio Presale at this link (https://www.ticketone.it/virginradio), from May 15th at 9am until May 16th at 11:59pm. There’s also a Sonyo Presale running at the same time as the Virgin Radio Presale. As with the Royal Albert Hall tickets, we suspect these shows – the only ones that will be performed in mainland Europe – will be extremely popular. The capacity of the venue should be higher than the London venue, so hopefully plenty of fans will be able to secure tickets.
Pink Floyd have today joined the social media platform TikTok, using the tag @pinkfloyd (https://www.tiktok.com/@pinkfloyd) unsurprisingly. It enables people on the platform to use music from the band’s entire catalogue with their own self-shot videos, and it will mean that the Floyd’s music will potentially reach a massive new audience who might not have come across it otherwise. As part of the launch, a short video has been posted across the band’s socials, including their new home on TikTok, which is a teaser for the 50th anniversary celebrations for The Dark Side Of The Moon, which was released in March 1973 (therefore March 2023 is the anniversary date). The video is a brief look at Breathe, and it doesn’t take a genius to surmise that other tracks are likely to get the same treatment… A post shared by Pink Floyd (@pinkfloyd) (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CeLQUmYjmwv/?utm_source=ig_embed utm_campaign=loading)
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 his 76th 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 the last few 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 will be in cinemas worldwide at the start of next month (with tickets now on sale), prior to (hopefully) a domestic release. He’s also released his latest 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, and this week appeared outside the UK’s Home Office, performing Wish You Were Here on acoustic guitar with Andy Fairweather-Low, in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. We hope you have a great day, Roger. Many happy returns!
