In news that I think many of us were expecting, Roger Waters has this evening postponed his 2020, This Is Not A Drill tour of North America until 2021. In his update about this, Roger said: THE BAD NEWS: I've had to postpone my THIS IS NOT A DRILL tour until next year. Bummer, but if it saves one life, it's worth it. As yet, revised dates are not known, but these will be advised in due course. Ticketholders are advised to hold onto their original tickets and await further information.More information as we get it…
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New book announced: Pink Floyd – Captured Through Time
WymerUK.co.uk (https://www.wymeruk.co.uk/webshop/collector-s-items/pink-floyd-captured-through-time/). The book will not be available to purchase elsewhere, so this will be the only place you’ll be able to get a copy. Shown here is the cover of the book, along with some examples of pictures from within its pages. Click the thumbnails to see the images in greater detail. The pictures show, in clockwise order: the cover, the band in 1970 on stage, Roger Waters in 1977 during the Floyd’s In The Flesh tour, and Richard Wright from 1972.
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BBC TV and radio on Saturday: Syd Barrett/Jill Furmanovsky
There are two things on the UK’s BBC which may be of interest, on Saturday (20th May). The first appears on Radio 4, and is an hour long dramatisation by Roger James Elsgood of Haydn Middleton’s novel The Ballad of Syd Morgan. This sees Syd Barrett (played by Tyger Drew-Honey) encountering novelist E M Forster (played by Simon Russell Beale) in King’s College, Cambridge, in 1968. Their meeting “leads to a conversation between two men belonging to very different eras of the 20th century and at markedly different stages in their lives, about the loss and the continued absence of creativity.” More information can be found here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m4cx), and it airs at 3pm UK time. It will be available on demand via the BBC’s iPlayer service shortly after broadcast. Also on Saturday – and again in the UK, but potentially available worldwide online via the BBC’s iPlayer – the new series of Later…With Jools Holland starts at 9:50pm on the BBC Two television channel. Amongst the guests is Jill Furmanovsky who started photographing Pink Floyd way back in 1972, so it would be astonishing if she didn’t at least mention the band during the interview. Jill’s taken iconic pictures of numerous iconic artists, and there’s currently an exhibition of some of her incredible work at Manchester City Library, running until June 24th, 2023. Admission is free and we hear it is well worth visiting.
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Abbey Road Studios x Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon; more merchandise
Earlier this month we told you about their exclusive Pink Floyd 1973 Collection (https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/abbey-road-release-exclusive-pink-floyd-1973-collection-for-tdsotm.html), featuring various t-shirts (short and long sleeve), hats, hoodies and bags. Added to this is a “unique replica print of the session sheet created for the recording of what would become the band’s seminal album, The Dark Side Of The Moon, recorded at Abbey Road between 30 May 1972 â 9 February 1973. This sheet is an exact replica of the original, which has been held within the Abbey Road archives for 50 years unseen by the public and indeed, Pink Floyd, until now. “This session sheet is dated 30 May 1972 ‘onwards’, highlighting the set-up that was used on the very first studio session for the album, a set-up that would remain as the default for much of the album’s subsequent Studio Three sessions with recording engineer Alan Parsons. Each replica sheet comes with a certificate of authenticity and an annotation giving insight into personnel, effects and equipment used during the sessions.” Orders for this item are now being taken via shop.AbbeyRoad.com (https://shop.abbeyroad.com/*/Pink-Floyd-1973/Abbey-Road-Studios-x-Pink-Floyd-The-Dark-Side-of-The-Moon-Session-Sheet/7QRG1ZBL000?utm_campaign=AbbeyRoadFansSessionSheet240223&utm_content=UMGUK41028-958353&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Email&vvsa_consumer_id=29338776) and once published, we suspect copies will also be available from Abbey Road’s gift shop in London.
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