Pink Floyd Stage Designer Doing Stage for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

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Feb 072012
 

Mark Fisher, who has worked with Pink Floyd over the years on their stage designs, will be designing the stage for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations concert. Mark has also done stages for U2, Robbie Williams and The Rolling Stones.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16925230

Below is an artist’s impression of what the stage will look like on the Mall at the Victoria Memorial fountain in front of Buckingham Palace in London, England. The last time Victoria Memorial was as busy as this would be was during Prince William and Kate Middleton’s marriage when the press were camped in front of it ready for the balcony kiss shot! ;-) Looks like it could end up being quite a busy concert with perhaps 500,000 people expected to attend making it one of the biggest events in the UK for some time.
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Polly Samson Saved Drowning Man

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Jan 272012
 
Polly Samson

Polly Samson Saved Drowning Man

David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson saved a drowning man down in Brighton where she lives (minus her bike shed) after pulling him out of the sea. The man apparently did not want to be saved and insisted on dying by trying to get back into the freezing winter sea.

Polly was in a conversation with a friend on Twitter and said to them, “could have done with your manly chest just now as pulled drowning man from sea who didn’t want to be saved.”

Polly Samson added that she had found the man’s “prone body washing to and fro through the shingle” but that after he was rescued and revived, he leapt back into the sea.

The incident was reported in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. The paper also went on to dredge up Polly’s son’s incident where Charlie Gilmour was thrown in prison for crimes against shop windows and other such anarchy!

Well done Polly who was brave to intervene. Many people these days like to keep themselves to themselves so is reassuring that there are still good people about ready to jump in and do a good deed, even if the person wanted to die.

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The Wall Demos Preview from EMI – Disc 5 from Immersion Boxset

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Jan 252012
 

EMI have been kind to me tonight and let me listen to discs 3-6 from The Wall Immersion Boxset. The demos sound 1,000,000 times better than The Wall Under Construction bootleg that has been doing the rounds for many years. If you were holding out from getting the boxset because you already have that bootleg, then you really need to upgrade! ;-)

Listening to disc 5… Run Like Hell and Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 sound much better in demo form in terms of their arrangement compared to the finished arrangement on the final master album. You may disagree or agree. You will have to wait and see after you get the Immersion Boxset!

As I write, I have just started on the band demos from disc 5 (the first of the two demos discs)… just been listening to the Roger Waters home and studio demos. The band demos are the studio production demos that the band recorded to give them a starting point in the studio in terms of achieving the right sound they were after I would imagine.

Teacher Teacher, which later appeared on the final cut as The Heroes Return, sounds rather good in demo form. HAs a different feel to it in terms of the rhythms from the drums and rhythm guitar. Much more laid back.

Bedtime now so I shall say more about disc 6 tomorrow which is part two of the demos. Check out more on Pink Floyd The Wall Demos.

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Andy Jackson’s Band The Eden House – Record Engineer of Floyd and Gilmour

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Jan 112012
 
The Eden House with Andy Jackson

The Eden House with Andy Jackson

Pink Floyd and David Gilmour recording engineer Andy Jackson is in a band called The Eden House. They have a new album out next month called the “Timeflows EP” and will be released on February 27th 2012 through Jungle Records. The digital download version will be made available a week earlier on the 20th.

Go check out their band website, have a listen to some tunes there, watch some video and enjoy. ;-)

If Andy has been involved, I bet it sounds great! ;-)

There is a video interview with Andy on the Astoria Houseboat Recording Studio belonging to David Gilmour on RecordProduction.com which you may wish to check out. He talks about the recording of the On An Island from a techie studio engineer point of view. If you know what Pro Tools is and, better still, have used it, go have a watch.  David Gilmour recorded such things as Division Bell and On An Island at Astoria.

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