Hopefully many of you have now received your copies of the truly excellent Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets Live At The Roundhouse – out today – and we’d love to know what you think of it! Do please get in touch to let us know your thoughts… As is normal for this sort of release, there’s been plenty of interviews (indeed, we’ve included some here on the site already) but today there’s been one with a bit of a difference. Nick has spoken to the team at the legendary Abbey Road Studios whilst he was there during the mixing of the album. Sitting in the reconfigured Studio Three, Nick talks about the studios, Pink Floyd, and the Saucerful Of Secrets project:
A date for the diaries of the enthusiasts of Gerald Scarfe's incredible work for Pink Floyd on The Wall. In an upcoming auction at Sotheby's, no less than eight original Scarfe drawings are included in the sale, with six of the eight being Wall related.Sotheby's Summer Miscellany auction runs from July 28th – August 4th, and full sale details, with each drawing viewable in good detail, can be found at the website of Sothebys.com (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany) with the auction house recommending the use of Google Chrome for viewing their sales (although we found that other browsers seemed to work fine, but if you are intending to bid, it might be worth using Chrome to be on the safe side). The individual Scarfe lots are as follows:Lot 148. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's The Wall – Teacher and Pink ( Wrong do it again! ), original drawing (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/scarfe-pink-floyds-the-wall-teacher-and-pink-wrong)Lot 149. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's The Wall – Teacher, Wife, Mother and Pink, original drawing (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/scarfe-pink-floyds-the-wall-teacher-wife-mother)Lot 150. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's The Wall – Teacher, Wife and Pink ( Another brick in the wall ), original drawing (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/scarfe-pink-floyds-the-wall-teacher-wife-and-pink)Lot 151. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's The Wall – Teacher and Pink ( Another brick in the wall ), original drawing (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/scarfe-pink-floyds-the-wall-teacher-and-pink)Lot 152 SCARFE | Pink Floyd's The Wall – Teacher ( If you don't eat yer meat… ), original drawing (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/scarfe-pink-floyds-the-wall-teacher-if-you-dont)Lot 153. SCARFE | Pink Floyd's The Wall – Teacher ( We don't need no education ), original drawing (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/scarfe-pink-floyds-the-wall-teacher-we-dont-need)Lot 154 SCARFE | Donald Trump ( Swearing in! ), original drawing (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/scarfe-donald-trump-swearing-in-original-drawing)Lot 155 SCARFE | Boris Johnson ( Fit as a butcher's dog ), original drawing (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/scarfe-boris-johnson-fit-as-a-butchers-dog)Click on the above links to see the individual items and for more details. Estimates start from £2000 and bidding opens this coming Tuesday (July 28th).
The Flavours – ‘Other Song’ Known for their broad and diverse mix of influences throughout their catalogue so far, Irish outfit The Flavours bring back more of that eclectic ideal with their dreamy new single ‘Other Song’. Capturing a warm and inviting texture, perfectly layered against some glittering vocals throughout, this new one will wash …
Denis Granan – ‘The Man Who Killed A Star’ Denis Granan, the Spanish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, has released his introspective new single ‘The Man Who Killed a Star’, blending indie-pop with mythological storytelling. Inspired by the story of Atlas from Greek mythology, the track metaphorically explores the personal cost of ambition, featuring haunting guitar riffs, […]
