October 26, 2007 – 4:24 am
In December, Pink Floyd will be releasing a mega box set titled, Oh By The Way, to coincide with their 40th anniversary. It will contain all of the band’s studio albums, each packaged in a faux-vinyl sleeve. In case you don’t remember your Floyd discography, the albums are:
The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
A Saucer Full of Secrets
Ummagumma
Atom Heart Mother
Meddle
Obscured By Clouds
The Dark Side of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
The Final Cut
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
The Division Bell
October 8, 2007 – 8:15 am
David Gilmour’s The Blog has won the BT Digital Music Award for Best Music Blog. View all the winners at the official website.
October 1, 2007 – 4:02 am
ContactMusic.com reports that: David Gilmour has no plans to regroup with his Pink Floyd bandmates again, despite getting fans’ hopes up when the legendary rockers reunited for a one-off Live 8 performance in 2005. The guitarist’s infamous rift with bandmate Roger Waters caused the rockers to split in the 1980s, but Gilmour has dismissed speculation of a Pink Floyd reunion because he’s more interested in his solo work.
“I can’t see why I would want to be going back to that old thing. It’s very retrogressive.”
September 18, 2007 – 5:46 am
Dave Kilminster will perform with Roger Waters at the VH1 Save The Music Foundation 10th Anniversary Gala, on September 20th. They will play a Pink Floyd song along with an all student orchestra and choir. Other performers include Jon Bon Jovi and John Mayer.
The event pays tribute to many who have helped contribute to the cause including:Former President Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, VH1 Save The Music founder John Sykes, Mariah Carey and NAMM, The International Music Products Association. In addition, a group of students from VH1 Save The Music grant recipient schools across the country will play together for the first time as an all-student orchestra, demonstrating the impact of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation.
Visit the official event website for additional details.
September 13, 2007 – 3:08 am
The Pink Floyd And Syd Barrett Story, which chronicles the rise and fall of musician Syd Barrett and the band he helped launch to legendary status, will be available on DVD on September 18th. The package includes two discs with over two and a half hours of DVD extras, including lengthy, unedited interviews from all members of Pink Floyd. A limited edition run of 5,000 will also be available in special packaging with 10 pieces of reproduction memorabilia in a special printed envelope.
The motion picture will screen in the following cities:
- September 17 – San Francisco – Roxie New College Film Center
- September 17 – Houston – Studio Movie Grill
- September 18 – Brooklyn, NY – Southpaw
- September 24 – Philadelphia – The Khyber
August 30, 2007 – 4:21 am
London’s Ritzy Picturehouse will be the venue from which David Gilmour will premiere his 85-minute theatrical version of Remember That Night – Live At The Royal Albert Hall, to audiences in North American movie theaters on Saturday September 15th at 3.00PM Eastern/12.00PM Pacific.
Broadcast in High Definition to 166 locations in North America – 112 in the U.S. and 54 in Canada – the event will include a one-song live performance by David, who will also answer a selection of fans’ questions.
August 17, 2007 – 3:08 pm
David Gilmour has posted another clip from his DVD, Remember That Night, at his website. This particular clip is the full version of Fat Old Sun, from Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother album.
A longtime favourite of many Floyd fans, Fat Old Sun is one of David’s songs from the Atom Heart Mother album, an opus that was Pink Floyd’s first UK Number One album. It has since been eclipsed in the critical view by subsequent albums such as Meddle and the twin peaks of The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, but it can bear a re-evaluation.
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