Monthly Archive: March 2011
Links – BBC 6 Music Interview with Nick Mason on Reunion | Discuss on Forum | Pink Floyd Reunion Photos from Live 8 Pink Floyd at Hyde Park, 2005, Reunion Concert for Live 8 Will Pink Floyd play a reunion concert again? That is the question on many fans minds and is also on the mind of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason also! In an interview with BBC 6 Music, Nick said, “No one has said we will never work (together) again.” However, that does not mean we should expect a full Pink Floyd tour anytime soon: “I think it is very unlikely we are going to go out on tour however I live in hope we would absolutely do another Live 8 or play together for the right reasons,” Nick told 6 Music. The band recently turned down a charity performance which would have meant the surviving members reforming for...
Links – Pre-order from Play.com for only £32.99 | £37.99 on Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com for $46.46 | Roger Waters The Album Collection Box Set April 2011 Roger Waters studio and live albums are set for a re-release packaged in a nice box set and feature 8 mini LP styles CD cases and 16 page booklet. The albums are not remastered but, if you haven’t got the albums already, then it would be an excellent time to spend a little cash to get an absolute load of albums! If you live in the UK, then you can pre-order the box set from Play.com for only £32.99 there compared to £37.99 on Amazon.co.uk! If you are in the USA or rest of world, then you can pre-order from Amazon.com for $46.46. Roger Waters Box Set Contents The contents are all of Roger’s studio albums as well as live albums and DVD. The...
The Syd Barrett Art Exhibition at Idea Generation gallery in London is set to open tomorrow to co-incide with the release of the most excellent of books Barrett. You can read NPF very own Barrett book review. The exhibition includes origina Syd Barrett paintings that you can see – lucky that he didn’t destroy them all in his later years. You can see letters he wrote to girlfriends of the past which include all sorts of odd drawings and characters. There is also lots of other things to see too so make sure you pop down and check it all out! The gallery exhibition, organised by Will Shutes (also co-author of the Barrett book) and Brian Wernham, is open until 10th April 2011 so you had best get making plans for transport and hotels now!! I am hoping to get down there myself to see the exhibition in the final...
Links – download the magazine Doug Sax with his big Vinyl cutting lathe The founder of The Mastering Lab Doug Sax is to remaster Roger Waters albums on to vinyl so that you may hear the albums in their purest glorious form. Doug was interviewed by The Absolute Sound/Hi-Fi+ Guide to Vinyl Playback where he was asked about how vinyl technology had changed. Doug responded, “As far as the LP is concerned, no. As far as what might feed the LP, yes, because now you might be feeding it from digital files, from high-resolution 192 or 96/24-bit, which supplies a very reliable and consistent source. But surprisingly the only real improvement has ostensibly been going to DMM [Direct Metal Mastering] cutting and that’s had flaws in the past—it never won audiophile support. Now, they’ve apparently fixed the flaws, and they have better copper. But for rock ’n’ roll, for high-energy...
Links – Roger’s Guardian Article | Article from 2006 Roger Waters Graffitis Wall in Palestine | Discuss – Share your opinion on the article on the forum Roger in 2006 with his spray paint! Roger Waters has written article for British newspaper the Guardian in which he calls for Israel to tear down their wall that blocks the Palastinian people in to a “virtual prison”. Roger wants other artists to involve themselves in a “cultural boycott” to help highlight what Irsael is doing to the palastinians. Roger wrote, “My conviction is born in the idea that all people deserve basic human rights. This is not an attack on the people of Israel. This is, however, a plea to my colleagues in the music industry, and also to artists in other disciplines, to join this cultural boycott.” “Artists were right to refuse to play in South Africa’s Sun City resort until...
Barrett Book: Signature Edition Modern pop stars often arrive on the music scene like a bad smell – they appear out of nowhere, may linger for a short while and then are gone. Although they may have an acute affect on those around them, it is only brief and soon forgotten about. Syd Barrett was not a bad smell. He was a whimsical kid from Cambridge who had a child-like fascination with the world, who pushed the boundaries of modern music with his “Pink Floyd sound” and created a lasting legacy: not just through his music with the Pink Floyd and solo material, but through his artwork, poems, letters, artefacts and vibe! The fascinating new book ‘Barrett’ offers the reader unrivalled access to the life’s work of Syd Barrett which goes way beyond what has been available up to now. The book is like a window into the creative history...
