Ahead of the release, in just two week’s time (on September 18th), of Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets Live At The Roundhouse on Blu-ray, DVD/2CD, and 2LP, Guy Pratt has recently undergone a couple of great interviews. The first of these was for the Upwards @ 45 Degrees website, where Guy talks the Saucers, Floyd, Bowie, and much more. Find out who are “the sun-dried tomatoes of rock and roll” and why, the significance of Frank Sinatra, and get some great detail on the development of the Saucers set list. You can read the interview here: https://bit.ly/2EOOExt. The other interview is in podcast form; conducted by The Vinyl Guide, Guy details how he landed the Floyd gig after Roger departed, and provides ‘behind the scenes’ insight into the world of Pink Floyd, the touring, the recordings, the reunions and more. Additionally Pratt provides a detailed insight to the highly regarded Toy Matinee project with Patrick Leonard and Kevin Gilbert, his history in comedy and much more. Hear it at: https://bit.ly/2GyMDpH
The Cambridge based Cheffins auction house (https://www.cheffins.co.uk/fine-art/lot-view,-roger-syd-barrett-british-19462006_71901.htm), who sold the contents of Syd Barrett’s home in St Margaret’s Square, Cambridge, where he had lived since 1981, after his death in 2006, is auctioning a very rare artwork by him at the end of this month. The painting, titled Orange Dahlias In A Vase, 1961 and signed R.Barrett, is currently in the possession of childhood friend Phil Harden, and will be sold off on May 27th. The artwork was created by Barrett when he was just 15 years of age, and was a mix of watercolours and pastels. There were nine later artworks sold in the previous Cheffins auction, raising £121,000 to fund local art training. The estimated selling price for this newly revealed artwork is between £3,000 – £5,000 plus buyer’s fees. We suspect though that this is a VERY conservative figure and expect the final hammer price to be a lot higher. The auction house explains the provenance: “In 1957, Barrett began his secondary education at Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, which aimed to emulate the public-school model. As a student, Barrett was emphatically average and, to most of his teachers, remarkable only in his inability to follow the rules. To Gerald Arthur Clement Harden, the schoolâs art teacher between 1938 and 1971, however, Barrett was a conspicuous and prodigious talent and one of the very few pupils permitted to use Harden’s oil paints. “Painted when Barrett was just 15 years old, the present lot was gifted to Harden by the artist shortly before he left the school and began studying art at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology. Although generally perceived as an unmotivated student by most of his tutors, Hardenâs support encouraged Barrett to pursue further study in painting and ignited in him a passion for art that would continue to burn until his death in 2006.” To see the painting in more detail, and for more details of the auction, including how to bid, visit Cheffins.co.uk (https://www.cheffins.co.uk/fine-art/lot-view,-roger-syd-barrett-british-19462006_71901.htm).
Hello one and all and welcome to this weeks Beneath The Surface feature. This week I am joined by the hugely talented Emilia Tarrant on the day of her ‘Honeymoon Phase’ single release. Her first release this year, she joins me for a quick chinwag and lets us in on all the juicy details of …
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