Hengelo krijgt tweede editie BAM! Festival
5 februari 2009 – De kogel is door de kerk; op 23 mei 2009 vindt in het Hengelose Prins Bernhardplantsoen de tweede editie van BAM! Festival plaats. Dit heeft de organisatie Stichting BAM! bekend gemaakt….
Pink Floyd at Knebworth 1975 – win a programme and t-shirt!
Saturday, 25 April 2009 Our latest competition takes a lo back through time to the summer of 1975, when Pink Floyd performed their sole UK date for that year in front of an agog audience…
Nick Mason’s Ferrari op Cadwell Park
THE sound of thunder boomed around Cadwell Park racetrack when Ferrari fan and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason got into top gear. His Ferrari 512 – worth a cool £1.5-million – tore round the…
Echoes goes international!
Thursday, 23 April 2009 Brain Damage founder Glenn Povey, author of the truly essential bo “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd” has been in touch, with the news that it has received a second…
Pink Floyd klaagt eigen label aan voor royalties
20 april 2009 Pink Floyd heeft hun platenlabel EMI aangeklaagd wegens te weinig ontvangen royalties. Volgens de psycheische rockers heeft het label hen veel te weinig uitbetaald van de verkopen van hun gehele muzikale catalogus….
Vernon Thompson, guitarist with Pink Floyd predecessors Sigma Six
In Nick Mason’s fascinating “Inside Out – A Personal History Of Pink Floyd”, there’s a picture [click thumbnail, left] of Pink Floyd predecessors Sigma Six. Shown in the Student Common Room at the Regent Street…
Jools Holland eindelijk in Nederland
Beter laat dan nooit, moet de NPS gedacht hebben. Na 34 seizoenen zendt de Nederlandse omroep einijk het immens succesvolle muziekprogramma Later With Jools Holland uit. Vergeet MTV of TMF, muziekliefhebbers stemmen nu beter af…
Extensive feature on Pink Floyd’s The Wall concerts in PLOT
Our German readers in particular should be on the lo-out for the current issue of PLOT magazine. This dual language (German/English) publication takes a detailed lo at “creative spaces” – concert staging, exhibitions, fashion shows…
Pink Floyd coverage in Classic Rock Prog special
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 The long-running UK magazine Classic Rock has decided to branch out into a respected genre – prog rock – with the first in a regular series of issues devoted to this…
Harry Waters Releases First Solo Album
Harry Waters, son of famous Pink Floyd mastermind Roger Waters, has released his first solo album simply titled “Harry Waters Band.” The album is an extremely melodic jazz album which flows from one jazz style…