Monthly Archive: May 2011
Links – Buy from Play.com £32.99 | Amazon.co.uk for £26.47 or Amazon.com for $35.42 . Make sure you are signed up to the NPF Facebook Page, Twitter and NPF Newsletter to be informed of latest Pink Floyd news! Roger Waters The Collection boxset featuring all of his studio albums is out in the UK on Monday 30th May 2011 and out in ROW on 7th June 2011. If you live in the UK, then you can pre-order the box set from Play.com for only £32.99 with free delivery compared to £26.47 on Amazon.co.uk also with free delivery. If you are in the USA or rest of world, then you can pre-order from Amazon.com for $35.42 ready for release in June. Although the albums have not been remastered, if you haven’t got any of them, it is certainly worth picking up this box set. One of my own favourite albums in there...
Links – //Discuss on Forum | Times Education Supplement | Schoolhouse Education | An independent but state-funded school established with the help of one of the world’s biggest bands, Pink Floyd, has been forced to close after 40 years. Schoolhouse Education, which claims it was the “original free school”, is to shut its Lewisham site in June after failing to attract enough students and losing funding from the local authority. Its Greenwich site will remain open. The school was founded to help disaffected students in south London, and was able to open thanks to a £1,000 donation from Pink Floyd, raised at an Oxfam concert in Wembley in 1972. A newsletter published by teachers and students at the school in 1972 said: “Thank you Pink Floyd, without whom, quite literally, we would not have survived.” Read full story on TES website.
Links – Why Pink Floyd release schedule | //Discuss on Forum | You are now able to pre-order your chosen items from the Why Pink Floyd release schedule! If you haven’t heard yet, Pink Floyd’s entire back catalogue has been remastered and all sorts of wonderful “editions” are being released. You can read more about Why Pink Floyd release schedule or get to ordering below! Treat yourself, you deserve it!! What Is Available? What Should I Buy? The back catalogue comes in Discovery, Experience and Immersion editions. Get the Discovery box set if you only have a couple of albums in your collection, else get the single remastered albums to fill in gaps in your collection. If you are ready for the next step, get the experience editions. There are three experience editions, one for Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. They have additional...
Links – Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and get our free Newsletter to remain informed of news! | “Why Pink Floyd…” Release Schedule | Photos – 2011-05-12 Roger Waters London O2 with David Gilmour and Nick Mason | Roger Waters London O2 Pictures (11th May 2011) | Pictures from The Wall 1980s | Videos – Official profesionally shot video of Comfortably Numb | Video of Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason at London O2 – 12 May 2011 | Audio – Listen To Behind The Scenes Story of Reunion Performance of Gilmour, Waters and Mason //Discuss – Share your thoughts on the forum David Gilmour and Roger Waters London O2 12th May 2011. (P Samson) David Gilmour and Roger Waters London O2 12th May 2011 (Kavehpd) David Gilmour joined old band mate Roger Waters on stage tonight at London’s O2 Arena to perform in Roger Waters’...
The long-awaited 5.1 version of ‘Wish You Were Here’, mixed by James Guthrie, will be released on 7th November 2011 via independent label Acoustic Sounds. So, all of you that bought an SACD player to listen to Dark Side of the Moon when that was released on SACD will have another disc to add to your collection! The SACD is, of course, being released as part of the huge release schedule which comes under the title “Why Pink Floyd…” which starts from 26th September 2011. The release had originally been scheduled for around February 2008 but this never happened! The man who designed the original artwork and the new artwork you see to the right (apologies for poor quality, I photographed it out of Mind Over Matter book by Storm Thorgerson) had these words to say about the project, “Like Dark Side of the Moon SACD it seemed appropriate to...
The new “Why Pink Floyd” mammoth collection of new re-mastered albums, new boxsets and digital releases shall be promoted with a new official Pink Floyd website. The site is due to go live very soon as per the image to the right which currently occupies the home page of the site. I have been guessing at various URLs to try and reveal a sneak peak at the new site but it appears it is not loaded to the server just yet! Why Pink Floyd – New Albums and Boxsets The entire back catalogue of Pink Floyd has been remastered and will be released under the title of “Why Pink Floyd…” and features three groups of releases and even a new best of called A Foot In The Door. The collection will feature rare songs, unreleased songs and unheard pieces, including a song from Household Objects. Discover – This group features...
