Vandaag bereikte ons het bericht dat op woensdag 14 oktober j.l. de moeder van Roger, Mary Duncan Waters, op 96 jarige leeftijd is overleden. Onze condoleances gaan uit naar Roger, Harry en de verdere familie.

Mother, did it need to be so high?

Friday, 23 October 2009

Dark Side of The Moon Sky Arts tributeUK-based satellite TV station Sky Arts have created a pyramid on London’s Primrose Hill to publicise their showing of Pink Floyd’s Earl’s Court 1994 performance of The Dark Side of The Moon on Sky Arts 1 in high definition. The 5-metre high pyramid, shown to the right with the London skyline [click thumbnail], promotes the screening of Pulse: The Dark Side Of The Moon Live, which transmits on Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 1 HD today (Friday October 23rd) at 10am and 4pm.

The large ‘prism’ uses diffused LED lighting to create the album art’s glowing effect. Lasers were installed behind the structure, a white laser emitting from the left hand side and coloured beams emitting from the right hand side, to re-create the image that appears on the famous Pink Floyd album cover.

bron: www.brain-damage.co.uk en www.pinkfloydz.com

According to an L.A. Times report, the Flaming Lips are set to follow-up their life- (and death)-affirming LP Embryonic with a full-album redo of Pink Floyd’s gazillion-selling 1973 psych-rock classic Dark Side of the Moon.

The Lips version of Dark Side is a collaboration with the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs (which includes Wayne Coyne’s nephew Dennis Coyne as a member), and features guest spots from Henry Rollins and Peaches. It will most probably be an iTunes-only release.

The announcement was made last night during a Q&A session with fans at a MySpace show last night at L.A.’s Nike/Ricardo Montalbán Theater. (Check out photos from the gig after the jump and in the photobook here.)

As most countries postal services do, the British Royal Mail regularly issue special design stamps. Just announced (and detailed on the Norvic Philatelics website) is the first of their special sets for 2010. “The Design Classics: Classic Album Covers” will appear on January 7th, and includes Pink Floyd’s Division Bell amongst the ten sleeves chosen.

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Thursday, 15 October 2009

Our congratulations to Roger Waters who was yesterday one of 21 top songwriters who won an ASCAP Song Award at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. He won the award for Money, which of course appeared on Pink Floyd’s 1973 album.

The ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) awards honour those writer and pubisher members of the UK’s Performing Rights Society whose repertoire is licenced by ASCAP and was among its most performed works in the US during 2008.

Other winners in the ceremony yesterday were Sir Paul McCartney, AC/DC, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, U2, and The Clash.

bron: www.brain-damage.co.uk