Monthly Archive: August 2010
The Australian Pink Floyd are probably the best Pink Floyd tribute or covers band out there. They will be going on tour again in 2011 so, in addition to Roger Waters tour of The Wall in 2010 2011 something else to look forward to! The Australian Pink Floyd Tour 2011 will be announced either towards the end of this year 2010 or perhaps early on in 2011. I myself have seen them twice: once at the new Liverpool Echo arena during the Summer Pops festival of 2009 for which they are a regular performer and also in Manchester. The Aussie Floyd once played as a Pink Floyd Covers band at David Gilmour’s birthday party so, if he likes them, I imagine most fans will too! Stay tuned on Neptune Pink Floyd for when the tour is announced. It is well worth getting Austrlian Pink Floyd tickets even though they are...
Links – Visit Australian Pink Floyd website | Roger Waters Wall Tour 2010 2011 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd tribute band The Australian Pink Floyd have launched a new website with lots of information and new features for you to see. They also have a tour to be announced shortly in 2011! They have overhauled the website to bring you their latest news, pictures and videos of them live. Pink Floyd Tribute Band If you have not seen a Pink Floyd tribute/covers band before (49.7% of NPF visitors have not), then choosing The Australian Pink Floyd as your first would not be a bad choice. As Pink Floyd tribute bands go, they are excellent. Indeed, they even played at Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour’s birthday party once! Your humble author has seen them twice at Liverpool Summer Pops and in Manchester and can highly recommend them. For many, 2011...
Links – Previous News > David Gilmour New Album Collaboration with The Orb’s Dr Alex Paterson | New David Gilmour Song on A Time Comes (Download) | Pink Floyd As previously reported, electronic music group The Orb will release their next album called Metallic Spheres in October 2010 and features the work of Pink Floyd guitarist, David Gilmour. The album will be released in multiple formats worldwide and, according to the blog on David Gilmour’s website, all artist royalties will be going to helping British hacker Gary McKinnon fight off extradition to the USA. You can watch a video of David Gilmour jamming on the album at this link. Reminds me of Discipline by King Crimson! Gary McWho?? The American’s want to get their hands on Gary McKinnon for hacking into US Military computer systems in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Gary, who has Aspergers Syndrome, claims he...
The video of Roger Waters and David Gilmour performing together at the Hoping Foundation charity event is now available for you to watch above. Watch Video Here Filmed by Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, it shows clips the pair performing the 4 songs they played on July 10th 2010. 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)’. On his Facebook page, Roger Waters wrote, “Here is a 2 minute taster of the gig David and I did together for The Hoping Foundation back in July. The sound quality is crap but it was a great night for me, and for him, and also for “US and THEM” . Please support the Hoping Foundation, they are doing great work for refugee children. David and I have given the charity the whole 29 mins and...
Links – Pre-order An Introduction to Syd Barrett album now | Get our Newsletter | Facebook | Twitter | Pink Floyd An Introduction to Syd Barrett CD Album 2010 A new compilation album called “An Introduction to Syd Barrett” will be released by EMI on 4th October 2010 in the UK and Europe. The album features 18 songs by Syd Barrett from his solo albums as well as Pink Floyd. 5 of the songs have been re-mixed and added to by the album’s producer Pink Floyd’s guitarist David Gilmour as well as Damon Iddins and Andy Jackson at Astoria Studios. Rhamadan Instrumental Download Those who purchase the album on CD or from iTunes will also be able to download the previously unreleased instrumental piece called Rhamadam. Barrett fanatics will be pleased and certainly gives more “hardcore” fans a reason to part with their money for this album. The album features...
