Monthly Archive: July 2010
Links – Visit Polly Samson’s Official Website | Get Polly’s new book from Amazon | Polly Samson and David Gilmour photos | David Gilmour and Roger Waters Perform Together for Hoping Fundraiser | Photos of Roger Waters and David Gilmour Hoping Fundraiser | David Gilmour Official Website Polly Samson, David Gilmour’s Wife David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson has a brand new website at www.pollysamson.com which details her work as a writer, lyricist and photographer. Here is why you should visit her website… Polly Samson: Lyricist The website will be of interest to all Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and Roger Waters fans as her lyrics feature on Pink Floyd’s final studio album The Division Bell in addition to David Gilmour’s third solo album On An Island. Indeed, Polly also made a vocal appearance on the song Smile from On An Island, did some backing vocals and played piano both on the...
Links – Get Guy Pratt tickets | Previous comedy shows include ‘My Bass and other Animals’ and ‘Breakfast of Idiots’ | Pink Floyd session bassist Guy Pratt is to embark on another adventure with his new comedy show Guy Pratt’s Wake-up Call. He is performing the show at the Edinburgh Festival from August 22nd-30th and tickets are only £5. It’s 4am. The alarm is set for 5. You’re in Belgrade…or possibly Buenos Aires. All these Hotel rooms look the same…There’s a noise coming from the bathroom and only a miniature of Baileys left in the mini bar….No worries you’ll sleep on the plane….You hope to hell it’s a travel day and that pile of ashes in the corner isn’t your Passport. Welcome to an average Wednesday in the life of a touring musician. ‘Guy Pratt’s Wake-up Call’ is the next instalment of the bizarre, poignant and often hilarious life of...
Links – Discuss on Forum | Roger’s Note on Facebook | David Gilmour and Roger Waters Perform Together for Hoping Fundraiser | Photos of Roger Waters and David Gilmour Hoping Fundraiser | Discuss Hoping concert on Forum | Hoping Foundation | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour is to join his old band mate Roger Waters on The Wall Live Tour either in 2010 or 2011 at one concert to play Comfortably Numb on guitar! Roger played with Gilmour at a concert last Saturday 10th July 2010 for the Hoping fundraiser and, as part of their playful negotiations to get that happening, David agreed to play guitar at one concert on the song Comfortably Numb! Now, before all the messages start flooding into my inbox, please be aware that not even David Gilmour knows which concert he will be playing at so we will all have to wait...
Links – Discuss the album | Guardian Newspaper article | Pink Floyd Bryan Ferry will release a new solo album called Olympia on 25th October 2010 which features Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. The recording also features Ferry’s old band mates Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay and Brian Eno from Roxy Music and is the first time the band has worked together since 1973. Other people involved with the album include Nile Rodgers from Chic, the Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, people from Radiohead, Scissor Sisters and Mani from Primal Scream. Sounds like an album to look forward to which features (in general) an excellent array of talent! Unlike Ferry’s last solo album Dylanesque from 2007 which featured a series of Bob Dylan covers, this new album will be all original material except for two songs: No Face, No Name, No Number by 1960s rockers Traffic, and a cover of...
Links – Photos of Roger Waters and David Gilmour Hoping Fundraiser | Discuss on Forum | Hoping Foundation | Pink Floyd | David Gilmour and Roger Waters were re-united again last night to perform for a charity event in Kidlington in Oxfordshire, England. It was all in aid of the Hoping Foundation Benefit Evening on 10th July 2010 which was compared by Fearne Cotton! They played four songs including ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Comfortably Numb’ and ‘Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two)’. They performed four songs before 200 guests, accompanied by Guy Pratt (on bass and acoustic guitar), Harry Waters (on keyboards), Andy Newmark (on drums), Chester Kamen (on guitar) and Jonjo Grisdale (also on keyboards). The annual event is to raise money for Palestinian children to help give them a better life. HOPING stands for Hope and Optimism for Palestinians in...
Links -Tickets http://www.wegottickets.com/event/84316 Tuesday July 13. Featuring Skinbat Scramble, All Schools Are Strange and Department S, plus DJ sets from Spencer Rocks. On Tuesday July 13, 93 Feet East will host ‘Interstellar’, a night for the benefit of the Syd Barrett Fund. This event is part of the Syd Barrett Fund’s activity to mark forty years since Syd’s debut solo album was released, and follows a gig at the Tunbridge Wells Forum in June and a charity walk from London to Cambridge over Easter. The Syd Barrett Fund was set up by Syd’s sister Rosemary Breen following his death in 2006. The fund exists to support the work of Escape Artists, a socially inclusive arts charity, based in Cambridge and London. Interstellar will be opened by ‘Skinbat Scramble’, as they unleash a post punk, psychedelic wall of sound to get the night underway. Forming in the late 1970s as a...
