NPF Newsletter - Issue 227 - 1st September 2006

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.:Contents:.

  1. NPF Magazine - September 2006 Edition!
  2. The Wall Concerts - All Available For Download (Torrent)
  3. NPF Tribute Shows In UK - Reminder

1 - NPF Magazine - September 2006 Edition!

The very first edition of NPF's new online magazine has now been published today! The monthly mag (written by visitors to NPF) will feature articles, reviews, fun and features focusing on every area of Pink Floyd and its members past and present! Visit Magazine Section.

Submit An Article!

If you would like to write an article or feature for future editions, then please read this information and/or get in touch! Webmasters of other Floyd sites and fans from across the world are welcomed!

Features

Photographing The Piper Cover Photographing The Piper Cover

Original Piper cover photographer Vic Singh guides us through how he came to create Pink Floyd's first ever album cover for The Piper At The Gates of Dawn.

Piper is widely regarded to be one of the first and most innovative Psychedelic Rock albums ever released. For the time when shot, the prism lens - given to Vic by George Harrison from The Beatles - was cutting edge!

Read Vic's Article

Articles

Memories of Knebworth 1975
Concert promoter Freddy Bannister recalls Pink Floyd's 1975 Knebworth Gig.

Delicate Sound Of Touring ’87-‘90
A history of the Momentary Lapse Of Reason 1987-1990 Tour. (By Christian Bobocea)

Masochistic Management
Why withholding archival material hurts Us And Them (By Martin "Tenniru" Bonica)

Syd Barrett and The Beatles: 1966 - '69
A look at the evidence surrounding the idea Syd recorded with The Beatles (By John J. Olivar)

An Ultimate Interstellar Overdrive
A track-by-track review of "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" (By Andrei Kiisler)

The Final Cut: A Review
A look at the songs and success of the album (By Christian Bobocea)

Fun

Pink Floyd Crossword 1 - As a MS Word document. (By Adrian Hennessey)

Pink Floyd Sudoku - Mental puzzle based around Pink Floyd! (By Adrian Hennessey)


2 - The Wall Concerts - All Available For Download (Torrent)

Thanks to "gnomad" from the NPF Forum and the WALLWeeds group, I will be making all of the Wall Concerts (except 11th Feb 1980) available as SHN/FLAC to download on the NPF Torrent Tracker. Downloading is easy and there are simple instructions below.

The Wall album was performed live a total of 31 times in California, New York, London, Germany then finished with more dates in London. I have added 6 from the first leg of the tour. I will be adding the other 24 in the next couple of weeks so keep checking back at the site!

Torrents Available (click to go to download page)

07 Feb 1980 - The Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California (WWRM001)
08 Feb 1980 - The Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California (WWRM002)
09 Feb 1980 - The Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California (WWRM003)
10 Feb 1980 - The Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California (WWRM004)
11 Feb 1980 - The Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California (no known recording)*
12 Feb 1980 - The Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California (WWRM005)
13 Feb 1980 - The Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California (WWRM006)

*If anyone has what would be an exceptionally rare recording of the performance from 11th February 1980, then please do get in touch!!

Need Help Downloading Torrents?

  1. If you have not done so already, register an account to use the tracker site.

  2. Download and install Bit Torrent (to download) and Foobar2000 (media player).

  3. Visit the NPF Torrent Tracker site and choose a download. Download the small torrent file. The links to the pages with the Wall shows are above.

  4. Open the small torrent file with Bit Torrent and it will start downloading the concert you choose!

  5. When downloading reaches 100% and is complete, you can play audio with Foobar2000. Play DVDs on computer with AVS DVD Player, for example, or burn to a DVD!

Need Additional Help?

If you have any questions no matter how small or big, then please ask on our very friendly and popular forum! Someone will help you get set up and sorted!! Go here. (you need to open an account on the forum which is separate to the tracker site).


3 - NPF Tribute Shows In UK - Reminder

The NPF Brighton Show The NPF Glasgow Show
23rd September 2006 8th October 2006

Tickets are still available for the Brighton NPF tribute show which will take place at the Komedia in Brighton, England, on Saturday September 23rd from 4pm until 2 am!

The event will feature a set from Darkside, Us Not Them providing highlights from the Division Bell tour plus a selection of performers from the NPF tribute CDs.

Tickets are priced £15.00 and are available to order online here or by phone on: +44(0)1273 647100

Tickets are now available for the Glasgow NPF tribute show which will take place at Jumpin Jaks, 292 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow on Sunday October 8th 2006. from 3 pm through to 11 pm..

Darkside will be headlining the event alongside Glasgow's own The Surrogate Pink Floyd who will be performing Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety in addition to NPF tribute CD performers!

Tickets priced at £15.00 are available to order online here.

::Additional Warm-Up Performances::

In addition to the tribute shows a second date has been added in Brighton on September 24th where participants in the NPF concerts will be performing their own music at The Pressure Point, Richmond Place, Brighton. Entry is a mere £3. Doors open 7.30pm

And if that's not enough, three warm up shows for the NPF tribute marathons have been lined up around the country!:

  • September 8th: Us Not Them - The Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Woking 7.30pm
  • September 16th: The Amber Herd - The Old Angel, Nottingham 8pm
  • September 21st: Swedish Whistler - The Cella, Brighton 8pm

:: Syd Barrett Tribute Video ::

It is our intention to put together a 5 minute video tribute to Syd Barrett to be shown at the concerts. The video will take the form of a collage set to a medley of Syd's songs that appear on the NPF tribute CDs. If you would like to send any messages, pictures, drawings or anything else that you would like to be included and projected on the screens at the shows please e-mail npftribute@yahoo.com.

The completed video will also be made available for download on the NPF website.

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