Monthly Archive: December 2006
Resources & Links Radio Times | TOTP2 | Discuss on forum | Download Video The BBC are to broadcast David Gilmour’s Arnold Layne music video featuring David Bowie on Saturday 6th January 2007. The video, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London for a forthcoming DVD, will be broadcast on the Top of the Pops 2 program on BBC 2. It will be broadcast between 5:05pm – 5:40pm. According to the TV Listings guide Radio Times… Music show mixing classic performances from the Top of the Pops archives with exclusive live performances. Steve Wright digs deep into the vault and comes up with class stuff from AC/DC, The Mobiles, Lonestar, Sister Sledge, R Kelly, and Tina Charles. Plus madness from Chris Tarrant and the Four Bucketeers, and new performances from Muse, and David Gilmour with David Bowie. The video Plus+ number is 9322051 should you want to record it...
Resources & Links Discuss on Forum | Full List of Donors (MS Excel) or Full List (webpage) Thanks to the kind donations of 49 people, the money has been raised to rent a virtual dedicated server for the next 6 months for NPF! Not only was the original target of USD $558 raised, but double was raised taking us to $1,116.68 in just two days! As such, I can rent a second server to increase the reliability of NPF! Alpha Server: Will host forum, news, magazine, photos, encyclopedia and newsletter and data backups from the beta server. Everything on neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk basically. Splitting the main NPF site and the tracker will mean a faster loading NPF and a lot less downtime due to server overloading! Beta Server: Will host exceptionally busy NPF Tracker on thepinkfloyd.co.uk and data backups from the alpha server. The tracker site has millions and millions of hits...
Resources & Links MySpace Arnold Layne Competition | David Gilmour’s Official Website | Discuss on the forum EMI UK has come up with a fun competition for musical combos to win a day’s recording in Abbey Road Studios by creating their very own version of Arnold Layne. Famed Pink Floyd and ex-Hipgnosis designer Storm Thorgerson has also agreed to design a new logo for the winners, which is a prize worth entering for alone. The idea is that ANY musical entity can enter any version they like (as long as it’s their own recording) of Arnold Layne, which they can then upload to a special MySpace page. All the rules are there, but essentially: you record it; you post it; the numbers get whittled down; and David himself will judge the winner from the Top 3. Winners get a free day recording at Abbey Road, plus a free band logo...
Resources & Links Ebay Pink Floyd Eyeballs Auction | Crisis Charity Site | /Discuss on Forum Crisis are auctioning off a pair of signed PINK FLOYD giant eyeballs, one of only ten specially commissioned pairs, used on the cover of their recent DVD ‘Pulse’, in order to help raise much-needed funds for the homeless this Christmas. The eyeballs are being auctioned off on eBay from 14th December through to the 20th of December with all proceeds going to the national homelessness charity Crisis. Interested parties can view the lot here. The current price is £16,101 as of 18th December! David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd, who is a well known supporter of the work of Crisis, commented that, “The eBay auction will not only raise much needed funds for the charity but will also raise awareness of the plight of the homeless at a time of year when they are most...
This article considers some of the points raised in an article published in the Mail on Sunday tabloid newspaper in Great Britain. It sheds light on the life of Syd Barrett once he returned home from London to Cambridge. It seems Cambridge was not as quiet and idyllic as one may have thought! Discuss on forum. ———————————————————————– Article from Mail on Sunday If an article published by the British tabloid newspaper The Mail on Sunday – and the gentleman who wrote the story – are to be believed, then it would seem Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett was not quite the quiet recluse (who lived at number 6 St Margaret’s Square in Cambridge for the final 25 years of his life) that everyone thought he was. Former next door neighbour David Sore from number 7 (it’s a cul de sac so 7 is next door) apparently shared some of his memories...
David Gilmour and Richard Wright performing at David’s 60th Birthday party. David Gilmour’s third solo album On An Island (OAI) was first released on his 60th birthday back on 6th March 2006. Indeed, he celebrated his 60th at Porchester Hall in London at which he performed some songs with his 2006 touring band before they went off to travel the world touring the new album. It is therefore slightly surprising that, less than 9 months later, the album is re-released! This time though with a separate bonus DVD. Naturally, Gilmour used the media to his advantage to publicise the first offering of OAI, the first solo effort for many years, which included magazine interviews, radio interviews and, of course, TV and the internet! One such event for the internet was the AOL Session he did in April 2006. These sessions, along with a performance from the Royal Albert Hall and...
