11 March 2012 would have been the author Douglas Adams’ 60th Birthday. To celebrate this event, Douglas’s family and friends decided to hold a “virtual birthday party” in London, at the Hammersmith Apollo (formerly Odeon) which turned out to be a stunning, star-studded event with chat, comedy and music filling the evening. Our review of the evening can be found here (https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/archive/david-gilmour-performs-at-the-douglas-adams-60th-birthday.html). The event was staged in aid of Save The Rhino International. For the musical part of the evening, there was quite the house band. Robbie McIntosh on guitar and vocals, Gary Brooker on keyboards and vocals, Jodi Linscott on percussion, Wix Wickens on keyboards, Margo Buchanan on vocals and guitar, backed by Dave Bronze on bass, and Paul Beavis on drums. Joining them later in the set was David Gilmour, who sang Wish You Were Here, which he played an acoustic guitar on, followed by Chuck Berry’s Too Much Monkey Business with the Black Strat fired up, which he also used on the finale of A Whiter Shade Of Pale. The show was filmed, but never released. However, one decade on, and to coincide with what would have been Douglas’s 70th birthday, permission has been granted to release that stunning finale, which you can see here:
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Gerald Scarfe: Long Drawn Out Trip & Sixty Years of Being Rude – two new books
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New film: Have You Got It Yet? The Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd Story – announcement & trailer
At long last, the much anticipated documentary about Syd Barrett, called Have You Got It Yet? The Story Of Syd Barrett Pink Floyd, has been officially announced with a trailer giving a first glimpse. The film was directed by Storm Thorgerson (Hipgnosis) and award-winning director Roddy Bogawa, and features new interviews with Syd’s friends, lovers, family and band mates Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason. This has been in the works for many years and it is great that it will finally be seen. It promises “rarely seen excerpts of Syd backstage, never-before seen photographs and a soundtrack full of Floyd’s music”. Needless to say, this sounds an essential watch. Apart from a screening for an invited audience tomorrow in London, the film will premiere across Everyman Cinemas in the UK from Monday 15th May – please visit EverymanCinema.com (https://www.everymancinema.com/) for more details. It will hit cinemas in the US and Canada from late June, and hopefully elsewhere too in due course. For more details of the film, see SydBarrettFilm.com (https://www.sydbarrettfilm.com/#/). In the meantime, here’s the trailer:
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